This lesson goes over what you will be learning in the Intro to After Effects module and introduces Adobe After Effects as a powerful compositing and animation tool used to combine visuals, create effects, and build 2.5D animated projects. It also explains how students will use After Effects to animate characters, move graphics through 3D space, format projects for different platforms, and build a practical animation pipeline through repetition and experimentation.

This lesson gives students a practical tour of the After Effects toolbar, covering the main tools they’ll use to select, move, zoom, rotate, draw shapes, create masks, add text, and work in 3D space. It also introduces more advanced tools like Roto Brush, Puppet Pins, painting, cloning, and erasing so students know what’s available as they build their workflow.

This lesson walks students through the After Effects interface, showing how the main panels, workspaces, menus, and preferences are organized. It also helps beginners get comfortable with important settings like auto-save, memory, cache, previews, labels, and performance so they can work faster and avoid common workflow issues later.

This lesson digs deeper into shapes, masks, and paths, showing how they can be used to create visuals, hide or reveal parts of an image, animate custom forms, and control complex designs. It also introduces practical masking and rotoscoping techniques, plus useful path tools like null controllers that make animation more flexible and easier to manage.

This lesson shows students how to use the Project Panel as the main place for importing, organizing, and managing media in After Effects. It also covers key project settings, file types, footage interpretation, proxies, and workflow tools that help keep bigger animation projects organized and running smoothly.

This lesson gives students a broad tour of After Effects effects and adjustment layers, showing how different categories like blur, color correction, distortion, generate, matte, stylize, and time effects can change or enhance a project. It’s meant to be used like a reference guide, helping students learn the most useful effects first and experiment with others as their workflow grows.

This lesson explains how compositions work as the main workspace where students combine media, set frame size, duration, frame rate, resolution, and 3D rendering options. It also walks through the Composition Panel tools so students can navigate, preview, align, crop, compare, and manage their scenes more confidently.

In this lesson, you'll learn the core transform properties that drive animation in After Effects, including anchor point, position, scale, rotation, and opacity. You'll also explore how these controls work in 3D space, how to use tools like the Pan Behind tool and Pick Whip, and how null objects can be used to control and organize more complex animations.

This lesson gives students a deeper look at the Timeline Panel, where they’ll organize layers, control visibility, blending, motion blur, parenting, playback, and timing. It also introduces different layer types and the Flowchart view, helping students understand how to keep complex After Effects projects clean, flexible, and easier to manage.

This lesson introduces keyframes as the main way to create movement and change over time in After Effects. Students learn how different keyframe types—linear, bezier, easy ease, and hold—affect motion, timing, and interpolation so their animations feel more polished and believable.