After Effects Scripts & Tips 2 Design Theory & Animation
Release date:2021
Author:Owen Lowery
Skill level:Beginner
Language:English
Exercise files:Yes
After Effects Scripts & Tips explores the best free third-party scripts, along with tactics, tricks, and workarounds, that make working in After Effects easier, more productive, and much more fun. In this course, instructor Owen Lowery focuses on a the design theories of contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity (C.R.A.P.) and shows simple, effective ways to put that theory into practice. Learn about color management and how the underlying meaning of colors impact your design. Discover innovative ways to incorporate typography and custom fonts. Find out how to align 3D objects, integrate logo designs into projects, animate text, and more. The lessons aren’t linear, so feel free to jump around and explore whatever scripts and tips are most interesting to you.
001 Course introduction – Design Theory & Animation
002 Using this course
003 Installing scripts
004 Designing with C.R.A.P. (the four principles of design)
005 Better vector tools with Shapes & Masks
006 Create Gear and TextBox scripts
007 Create3DShapes script
008 More robust alignment with the Align3D script
009 Alignment and proximity animation with Gridder
010 Quick color theory
011 Color palettes in AE with Adobe Color Themes
012 Color palettes in AE with Swatcher Script
013 Randomized colors with Randomatic
014 Typography – Consider it for fonts sake!
015 Saving customized fonts with the Font Styles Library script
016 Breaking up text layers with the DecomposeText script
017 Animating text with the TextEvo script
018 Spell check in AE with the After Spell script
019 The 5-step quick composite for a unified look
020 Texture quickly with Ray Dynamic Texture
021 Utilizing layer guides, grids, and guide layers
022 Customizing font files with FontForge
023 Creating infographics
024 Retro LCD style with LCDeffect and ASCII Generator
025 Photos in motion
026 Next steps
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