Adobe After Effects (Motion Graphics) Certificate

Program Description

Adobe After Effects software delivers a comprehensive set of tools tom efficiently produce motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, multimedia, and the Web.  After Effects uses a system of layers organized on a timeline to create composites from still images and motion footage, such as video files. Properties such as position and opacity can be controlled independently for each layer, and each layer can have effects applied. After Effects is often described as the "Photoshop of video", because its flexibility allows compositors to alter video in any way they see fit, as Photoshop does for images. 

Course Curriculum

1.     Text and vector graphics creation and animation - Create text and vector graphics in After Effects using familiar Adobe tools, and then animate these elements to create visually innovative new motion graphics.

2.     Extensive visual effects - Manipulate moving and still images using hundreds of effects such as stylize, distort, and shatter. Create grids, radio waves, 3D particles, film grain, fractal noise, and more.

3.     Timesaving tools - Start projects quickly with animation presets and behaviors when creating common animation elements, such as animating text in & out, creating synthetic backgrounds, and more. Use new Brainstorm to quickly experiment and refine designs using parameters you define. Learn fast with Tool Tips and training resources in the box and on the web, and streamline your review process with Adobe Clip Notes to create and import comments

4.     Comprehensive masking and keying tools - Control which portions of a layer are visible by importing, manipulating, and animating masks. Flexible auto-tracing options and RotoBezier masks make it easy to get precise results. Key blue screen and green screen mattes with the Academy Award-winning Keylight and a host of supporting tools.

5.     Powerful motion controls - Animate graphics and text using the Puppet tool. Apply motion blur to produce more realistic animations, or use Timewarp to slow down and speed up footage. Precisely match the motion of source footage using Motion Tracker, and get the look of a locked-off shot using motion Stabilizer.

6.     Enhanced performance - Harness your computer's processing power with new multi-core and graphics acceleration plus disk caching so you can spend less time waiting and more time creating. Distribute rendering across your entire network to maximize output performance.

7.     Professional results for every media type - Compatibility with an extensive list of output formals lets you produce animated content for virtually any media, from the web and mobile devices to film and broadcast.

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

-       You can be a PC user to take our courses. You'll need a Pentium II with Internet connection and a web browser (Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher).

-       Basic dial-up Internet access is adequate but a high speed connection is recommended.

-       Depending upon the course taken by you, you can either download the free trail versions of the software from the respective sites (the links of which are displayed on our webpages of that particular course) or you can purchase the software from the respective software sites.

Required Materials:

-       We do not suggest you buy any textbooks. Our courses have been developed by a team of designers, educators, writers and programmers with more than 16 years of combined experience. So the courses are really like textbooks themselves. We also give you notes in the form of PDF files.

Instructor Interaction and Grading:

-       Interacting with Instructors is one of the most important aspects of our training. We offer multiple opportunities for interaction, such as email, chat rooms, a virtual bulletin board for student comments. We will also be sending a newsletter on an ongoing basis and there is also an online portfolio area. Your queries and mails will be attended to instantly.

-       The lectures and instructions are based on asynchronous learning models, and have removed the limits normally associated with real-time learning. You need not schedule specific hours of the day, where you must sit in front of the computer. Rather, you can learn at your own convenience.

-       All Notes & Assignments are turned in as PDF files posted in our members section and student-instructor interaction takes place via e-mail or chat. Teaching is highly interactive, with ongoing feedbacks, assessments, evaluation, monitoring & projects.

-       We have a grading policy of - A, B, C grades awarded to the student based on the evaluation of the student’s progress and other related qualities. The project plays an important role in the Grading.

-       On an average, a student is expected to spend MINIMUM 10 hours PER WEEK. For Example- To complete a course of 80 sessions it would take approximately 8 weeks. But you could spend more time per week and complete your course earlier.

-       You cannot skip or jump to another course before completing the previous one. The reason being we evaluate your performance and the course is designed in a very structured and systematic way, to make you understand every feature of that particular topic.