After Effects Scripts & Tips- 1 Animation Techniques

On September 15, 2018

Release date:2017, October 7

Duration:03 h 31 m

Author:Owen Lowery

Skill level:Beginner

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Discover tactics, tricks, and workarounds that can make working in After Effects easier and more fun. Owen Lowery introduces various free scripts that you can install for better functionality and faster workflow, discusses animation and design theory, and shows simple, effective ways to put that theory into practice. He guides you through several solutions to the kinds of common problems that new After Effects users tend to run into. Plus—as this course doesn’t build from lesson to lesson—you can dive into whichever topic piques your interest.

Topics include:
Installing and using scripts in After Effects
The laws of physics and rules of animation
Continuous motion and overlapping action with Wiggle
Animating fast with Motion Sketch and Smoother
Fixing an anchor point
Working around expressions in a project
Quick stop motion style with Tickler
Using the Puppet tool outside of puppets

Table of Contents

Introduction
Course intro: Up your animation game, quick and simple 1m 27s
Using this course 4m 14s
1. Awesome Free Scripts
Installing and using scripts in after effects 10m 25s
Animation Composer: Plugin 11m 9s
Animation Composer: Extra scripts 11m 4s
Duik for better keyframing 8m 58s
Scale and rotate motion paths script 3m 56s
First Vertex toolkit script 6m 55s
Better layer & precomp organization withtrue comp duplicator & un-precompose scripts 9m 50s
2. Mograph Theory in Practice
The laws of physics and rules of animation 9m 34s
Easing motion with animation patterns script 10m 55s
Creating follow-through, overlap, and secondary action with Dulk 15m 46s Animating squash and stretch 15m 44s
Continuous motion and overlapping action with Wiggle 7m 59s
3. Animation Quick Tips
Animating fast with Motion Sketch and Smoother 5m 7s
Linking animated properties with expression pickwhip 6m 59s
A better scale zoom with exponential scale 2m 32s
Creating camera shake 6m 30s
4. Common Problems and Quick
Fixes Fixing an anchor point 10m 9s
Quick timing adjustments with time-remap & duik morpher 9m 24s
Working around expressions in a project 7m 16s
5. Quick Projects
Quick stop motion style with Tickler 7m 49s
5. Quick Projects
Quick stop motion style with Tickler 7m 49s
Multi-layer animated presets with layer library 11m 33s
Using the Puppet tool outside of puppets 13m 34s
Conclusion
Next steps 2m 15s