Skillset Supported Adobe After Effect Courses

Cost: £125 (Regular Cost - £445)

Adobe After Effects is the industry leading platform for compositing and motion graphics. Ravensbourne College and 01zero-one as partners in the Ravensbourne Skillset Media Academy have received funding from Skillset Film CPD fund to run an introduction and an advanced course. With Skillset support the cost of each course for eligible freelancers has been reduced by £325 but places are very limited.

To book email Lydia at info@01zero-one.co.uk or call on 020 7025 1985.

Delegates must meet the eligibility criteria set out by Skillset and places will only be confirmed upon receipt of the course fee in full.

For course outlines see below.

At 01zero-one

Adobe After Effects – Intro 12th/13th May 2008 

Adobe After Effects - Advanced 30th June/1st July 2008

Adobe After Effects - Intro 7th/8th July 2008

At Ravensbourne College

Adobe After Effects - Intro 9th/10th June 2008

Adobe After Effects - Advanced 28th/29th July 2008

Adobe After Effects - Advanced 4th/5th August 2008

After Effects – Fundamentals

Introduction Outline

Day One

Introduction To The Interface, Project Window, Composition Window, Timeline, Layer Window

Palettes, Managing your workspace, Creating a Sequence of Media Clips, Creating a Composition

Importing Media, Creating Layers from Footage Items, Positioning Layers in Time, Animating Layers and Effects. Animating Transform Properties, Duplicating Properties, Controlling Appearance of Vector Graphics, Creating Animated Text, Applying Effects, Applying Text Animation Presets, Setting Blending Modes for Layers and Creating Solids.

Day Two

Sequencing Layers Precisely, Controlling the Layer's Playback Rate, Looping Footage Items

Nesting Compositions, Pre-composing Layers, Replacing Footage within a Layer, Setting Layer's In and Out Points, Slip Edit Layers, Creating Transparency, Assigning Track Mattes, Creating Masks, Outputting Video Files, Creating a Render Settings Template, Creating an Output Module Template

Rendering a Composition and Exporting a Composition

After Effects –

Advanced Course Outline

Day One

Keyframes: Different types of keyframe, Velocity, Keyframe shortcuts, Keyframe graph editor, Type Draw, Paint, All About Alphas, Working with Photoshop, Dots, Pixels and Inches, Working with Illustrator, Plugging in Type, The Matrix, Particle Playground, More On Effects, Production Bundle Effects Round Up, Compound Effects, Animation Assistants, Additional Assistants, Motion Fun

Express Yourself, Animation and behaviour presets, Keying Using Keylight.

Day Two

Expressions: Writing a simple expression, Linking expressions to motion track, Time and Tracking

Time Remapping, Time Games, On Stable Ground, Motion Tracking, Time warp, NLE Integration, Integration 101: Integration with Nonlinear Editing Systems, Working with 3D. Cameras Lights,

3D Layers, Format Issues and Rendering, Luminance and IRE Issues, Working with D1/DV NTSC

Working with Widescreen, Pre rendering and Proxies.Advanced Rendering: Render Farm Concept

Video Issues, Playing the Field, 3:2 Pulldown, What’s Your Preference? The Secret Preferences

After Effects Tutors

Paul Mumford:

Paul Mumford is a director, designer and artist currently working in motion graphics and animation across a range of music promos, short films and commercials with various London based companies. All this has led him to produce work on projects for artists such as Michael Fakesch [Funkstorung], Franz Ferdinand, Kylie and Depeche Mode and companies such as Onedotzero, Sony and MTV. He has also tackled numerous personal projects of an ambitious nature bringing together research in the fileds of narrative and live performance with a contemporary flair for live cinema in projects such as Autometa and the Storycollector.

At the heart of his work though is a love for stories, people and dreams, something that has driven his research and personal work; manifesting itself as intricate, sensitive and contemporary motion graphics for live audiences and audio visual lovers. Paul’s work has been screened and performed across Europe at events such as the Stuttgart Film Festival, Cybersonica, the Mapping Fetsival, State of the Image, Plaza Futura, Contact Europe, Urban Artforms Festival, the Big Chill and many more.
At present he is busy working on a range of motion graphics projects for commercial clients and for book/DVD publications set for release in 2008.