Adobe After Effects CC 2025 Bootcamp: Beginner to Advanced
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Adobe After Effects CC 2025 Bootcamp: Beginner to Advanced

Learn Adobe After Effects CC: Master Motion Graphics, VFX Visual Effects, VFX Compositing with 55+ Real World Projects

Created by Louay Zambarakji, Kaiversity Online
34.5 hours
Video Content
441
Lectures
187,219
Students
4.6
Rating
4.6
(187,219 students enrolled)

What you'll learn

Comprehensive understanding of Adobe After Effects with a working proficiency in animation and visual effects.
Unleash your creativity with over 50 interactive projects, ranging from beginner to advanced levels.
Discover how to create compelling Motion Graphics that enrich your videos, following a clear, user-friendly method.
Apply advanced compositing techniques to create breathtaking video effects.
Grasp specialized visual effects techniques such as Motion Tracking, Camera Tracking, Chroma keying, Rotoscoping, Stabilizing, and more.
Conquer Visual Time Effects to revolutionize your Videos and Motion Graphics.
Immerse yourself in 3D workspace, mastering Cameras, Lights, Shadows, and 3D Motion Graphics Projects.
Learn to import and animate Illustrator Vector Graphics seamlessly.
Explore the art of advanced Text Animation in both 2D & 3D
Stay ahead of the curve with the latest Responsive Design Techniques.
And so much more, setting you on the path to becoming an accomplished expert in Motion Graphics, Visual Effects, and Compositing.

Course Content

52 sections • 441 lectures • 34:39:29 total length

A Quick Start to Enable Your After Effects Skills

9 lectures • 40:32

Welcome to After Effects Bootcamp02:49
Course Upgrades CC 202501:05
*Download your Resources: Assets/Graphics and Completed Project files00:15
Getting ready to start your first animation03:53
Your first Animations & Visual Effects01:10
+4 more lectures

Working in After Effects CC: An overview of the Interface and Keyboard Shortcuts

7 lectures • 28:12

After Effects Interface - Workspaces05:15
Frames & Seconds on the Timeline03:04
The Work Area: What is it for?03:58
Important Switches and more01:49
When the Footage goes Missing - Relinking Footage03:41
+2 more lectures

Comprehensive Overview on How to Animate in After effects

11 lectures • 01:06:52

Introduction Speed Control01:09
How to animate layer's properties20:00
How to sequence layers04:03
How to Ease your animation on a Motion Path05:29
Controlling the speed on a motion path - Speed Graph09:17
+6 more lectures

Animating Illustration in After Effects CC

12 lectures • 01:31:45

Animating Illustration in After Effects CC01:48
How to Animate: a 3-Step method03:03
Scene 1 - Explainer video - Truck Animation (Part 1)10:18
Scene 1 - Explainer video - Truck Animation (Part 2)10:03
Operating - How to bend graphics07:08
+7 more lectures

Start animating Shapes and Type Layers

18 lectures • 01:53:40

Introduction to Shapes and Text Layers00:36
How to Create and Edit Text Layers07:29
How to Create and Edit Shape Layers08:03
Inside the Shape Layer - Animating Shapes Properties09:45
Our Project - Shape Explosion - with Logo animation01:04
+13 more lectures

Create and Publish your Videos to Social Media

6 lectures • 21:24

Create and Publish your Videos to Social Media00:44
Create Pro Videos using the Adobe Media Encoder (Recommended)04:39
When Adobe Media Encoder does not Pop Up02:30
How to create a Pro transparent background Video05:39
How to reduce the video file size03:37
+1 more lectures

Essential Reveal Techniques with Track Mattes and Pre-Comps

19 lectures • 01:40:36

Essential Reveal Techniques with Track Mattes and Pre-Comps00:39
Revealing Layers with Track Mattes06:13
How to use the Alpha Inverted Track Mattes03:51
Practice Alpha Inverted Track Mattes05:03
How to use the Luma Track Mattes05:51
+14 more lectures

Introduction to Masks

5 lectures • 18:27

Introduction to Masks00:41
How to create Masks - Masking Videos05:23
How to Edit Masks07:10
Overview of Mask Properties03:40
The Rotobezier Mask01:33

Type Graphics: Type Animator - Animation & Effects

16 lectures • 01:22:56

Type Graphics: Type Animator - Animation & Effects00:33
Type (text) Layers - Overview and Styling07:32
How to work with the Source Text04:15
How to Create Per Character Animation06:32
How to combine & Animate Animator Properties04:41
+11 more lectures

Motion Graphics with a purpose - Social Media Posts

5 lectures • 34:46

Instagram Post00:59
How to choose a color palette07:54
How to get appropriate fonts05:22
Animating your design - Backgrounds03:51
Animating your design - Text16:40

Parenting and Forward Kinematic

12 lectures • 01:08:08

Parenting and Forward Kinematic01:05
How to Parent Effectively06:57
Disconnecting from the Parent06:44
When and Where to Parent06:39
How to break parenting05:48
+7 more lectures

Animation & Visual Effects Projects - Scrolling messages

5 lectures • 24:25

Animation & Visual Effects Projects - Scrolling messages00:35
Setting up and animating the scene03:52
Overshoots and slants Animations05:01
Setting up and animating the first messages04:18
Adding the scroll message animation10:39

Earth Holiday Project - Animating with Masks and Parenting

4 lectures • 20:14

Earth Holiday Project - Animating with Masks and Parenting00:42
Animating with Masks - Background and Earth07:51
Animating the Monument & Balloon07:17
Rotating everything04:24

Complex, Compound and Bezier Shapes - Properties & Animation Techniques

20 lectures • 02:27:49

Complex, Compound and Bezier Shapes00:40
Shape layer structure06:25
How to Create Complex and Compound Shapes16:05
How to animate Groups09:24
The Magic of Fill Even/Odd and Reverse Path09:18
+15 more lectures

Motion Path Animation Techniques

6 lectures • 39:58

Motion Path Animation Techniques00:32
How to transform a Path into a Keyframe Motion Path09:19
How to Create Complex Position Motion Path Double Loops04:53
Creating a Trail with the Motion Path06:28
How to Import Motion Path from Illustrator10:20
+1 more lectures

AE Type Engine - Awesome Presets

9 lectures • 33:13

Download your Project and Footage Files for this section00:14
The Blur Preset Animations08:06
Get your Text to Bounce Preset04:25
360 Loop Preset02:48
Multi-line Presets04:10
+4 more lectures

Solid Layers and Adjustment Layers with Visual Effects

7 lectures • 37:19

Download your Project and Footage Files for this section00:14
Solid Layer Overview and Settings07:39
Visual Effects on Solid Layers as composition's backgrounds08:26
Masks and effects on Solid Layers06:56
Adjustment Layers Overview06:09
+2 more lectures

Advanced Custom Transition with Adjustment Layers

2 lectures • 12:25

Building the Custom Transition10:57
Retiming the transition01:28

Time Games with Motion Graphics

9 lectures • 40:28

Your Learning Take away from this Section01:00
Download your Project and Footage Files for this section00:14
Reversing Animation with Keyframe Assistant03:58
Reversing Animation with Time-Reverse Layer07:29
How to Slow, Speed up and Reverse an Animation with Time Remap09:39
+4 more lectures

Visual Time Effects: Time Games with Videos

9 lectures • 45:10

Playing with Video Time from FPS to Stop and Run01:04
Download your Project Files for this Section00:14
Time Games - Playing with Frames Per Seconds (FPS)10:01
TimeWarp Effects - Speed07:20
TimeWarp Effect - Back & Forth with Negative Speed & Motion Blur04:30
+4 more lectures

Responsive Design - Retiming animation using Protected Region

7 lectures • 15:54

Responsive Design00:57
How to Create a Protected Region using the WorkArea04:29
Removing and Changing the Protected Region01:17
How to Create Protected Regions with Markers02:03
Responsive Design with Motion Graphics03:42
+2 more lectures

*Essential 3D in After Effects - Working in 3D Space and Animation Techniques

6 lectures • 27:47

Download your assets for this 3d section00:15
An overview of the 3D Space04:39
The 3D Axis Modes04:36
The 3D Views - What for and How to use them03:03
How to use the 3D Camera Tools07:51
+1 more lectures

*Advanced 3D - Lights and Shadows

5 lectures • 17:15

How to add a Light Source07:33
Working with Ambient Light02:28
Working with Point Lights01:55
Working with Parallel Light02:31
Practice working with Light02:48

*When there is Light there are Shadows

5 lectures • 22:31

How to create Shadows05:47
Accepting Shadows and Lights02:14
Adjusting Lights vs Shadows05:06
Adding Lights and Shadows in Advanced 3D02:43
Practice: Rooted Lights06:41

Essential 3D in After Effects - Working in 3D Space and Animation Techniques

1 lectures • 00:14

Download Your Project file for this Section - 3D and Camera00:14

*Advanced 3D - How to Create and Animate 3D Cameras

5 lectures • 24:58

How to create a Camera06:04
How to move around the Created Camera04:34
Camera Depth: How does it work?03:44
How to Rotate a 2-Point Camera02:22
Pratice: How to use the Orbit Null08:14

Puppet Tools - CC 2018 - Distorting & Animating Objects/Images

11 lectures • 40:17

The Puppet Tools in CC 201800:22
Your Learning Take away from this Section00:52
Download your Project and Footage Files for this section00:14
Setting a practical Workspace - How to use the Alpha Channel03:20
How to set the Pins, Mesh and Expansion06:17
+6 more lectures

Puppet Tools - CC 2019/2025- Distorting & Animating Objects/Images

10 lectures • 36:56

Puppet Pin in CC 2019/202400:47
Download your Initial Project and PNGs00:05
Using the Alpha Channel03:07
The Concept of Pins - Position Pin05:47
How effective is the Bend Pin04:58
+5 more lectures

The World of Expressions

12 lectures • 57:19

Download your Project and Footage Files for this section00:14
How to Create Expressions with the Pick-Whip05:36
How to add expressions manually - the loopOut() Expression07:18
Replacing Source Text with Expressions05:46
Interpolation : How to Transpose Property Values using Expressions05:58
+7 more lectures

Animation Presets - Using, Editing and Saving Your Presets

8 lectures • 32:48

Your Learning Take away from this Section00:53
Download your Project file for this Challenge00:14
Behaviors Preset - Drift Over time04:15
Presets: - Behaviors Preset - Rotate Over time03:46
How to Apply and Work with Fade Presets07:01
+3 more lectures

Compositing: A closer look at the essential Blending Modes & Compositing

10 lectures • 47:13

Your Learning Take away from this Section01:15
Download you Project Files for this Section00:03
The Effect of Blending Modes03:55
The Concept Behind Blending Modes02:44
The Different Categories of Blending Modes04:30
+5 more lectures

A Ghost Project - Motion / VFX / Compositing

6 lectures • 17:19

A Ghost Project - Motion / VFX /Compositing00:18
Setting up the assets04:22
VFX for In/Out Transitions05:30
Creating the Animation04:23
The Ghost Population01:57
+1 more lectures

Specialized Effects: Motion Tracking

14 lectures • 55:53

Your Learning Take away from this Section00:53
Download you Project and footage files for this Section00:14
The Tracker Panel02:56
Create and Define a Track Point05:50
How to Track and Adjust04:28
+9 more lectures

Specialized Effects: 3D Camera Tracker

10 lectures • 33:00

Camera Tracking - Your Learning Take Away from this Section00:59
Download your Project and Footage Files for this section00:14
When to use the 3D Camera Tracker Effect03:11
3D Camera Tracker Effect Workflow01:18
How to Create the Camera Track Points05:41
+5 more lectures

Specialized Effects: Color Correction with the Lumetri Scope

11 lectures • 39:47

Color Correction with the Lumetri Scope03:38
Download your Project and Footage Files for this section00:08
Color Corecting Tonality with the Waveform Scope08:33
Using the RGB Parade and RGB Curves06:46
How to use Hue Saturation Color Wheel in the RGB Curves03:12
+6 more lectures

Specialized Effects: Keying - Removing Background Green Screen

10 lectures • 45:52

Your Learning takeaway from this section01:14
Download your Project and Footage Files for this section00:14
Introduction to Keylight 1.2 - Key Cleaner - Advanced Spill Suppressor03:10
How to Select the Right Screen Color07:30
How to use the Keylight 1.2 Effect10:27
+5 more lectures

Specialized Effects: Separating Background / Foreground- Rotoscoping

8 lectures • 39:39

You Learning Take Away from this Section01:14
Download your Project and Footage Files for this section00:14
Selecting your Foreground - The Roto Brush Tool07:34
How to Refine the Edges - The Refine Edge Tool04:02
How to Propagate the Strokes11:03
+3 more lectures

Visual Effects and Motion Graphics Project - The Fire Planet VFX and Animation

9 lectures • 31:01

The Project You Will Create00:26
Download Your Porject Files00:06
How to use the CC Sphere Effect06:05
How to create the planet surface04:27
Using Effects to Create Surface Maps04:17
+4 more lectures

Visual Effects with Video Mattes

8 lectures • 27:47

Visual Effects with Video Mattes Intro01:02
Download the Video Asset to follow00:07
Complex Mattes on Videos06:51
Animated Mattes on Videos03:57
How to Create Video Mattes07:03
+3 more lectures

Composition & Layers Markers: How to Easily Create Kinetic Typography

4 lectures • 17:01

Your Learning Take Away from this Section01:00
Download your Project File00:03
How to Set Markers08:27
A Kinetic Typo Project Made easy With Markers07:31

Create & Export Essential Graphics Templates

10 lectures • 26:11

For CC 2017 and 2018 Only00:40
The Essential Graphics Window01:00
Download the Start Up Project file & Footage00:02
Create a New Motion Graphics Template06:01
Motion Graphics Template at Work03:13
+5 more lectures

Create & Export Essential Graphics Templates

6 lectures • 20:43

What is the Purpose of Essential Graphics Templates01:44
How to Create a Template and Add Properties05:40
How to Export - Where to find your Templates02:47
How to use Essential Graphics Templates in Premiere Pro01:43
How to Add Responsive Design to your Templates - What happens in Premiere Pro04:17
+1 more lectures

Create and Animate Nulls from Path and Masks

7 lectures • 22:31

What does the Script Offer05:15
Download Startup Project File and Assests00:02
Path Points following Nulls - Powerful Line Graph Example02:58
Mask Points following Nulls - Area Graph Example04:48
Tracing Mask Path04:20
+2 more lectures

Importing and Animating Vector files from Illustrator

8 lectures • 30:49

Download your vector Graphics Files00:02
The General Concept - Direct Import05:27
Creating Layer and Groups07:35
Structuring and Renaming Layers01:50
Complete Project - Step 1: Collecting in Layers06:26
+3 more lectures

Infographics projects

10 lectures • 01:12:49

Percentage Donut Pie11:37
Dashed Percentage Donut Pie05:26
Indicator Dashed Percentage Pie07:55
Follow through Shapes08:43
Rotating Arrow02:03
+5 more lectures

Your Complete Guide to the Audio Spectrum Effect - Create awesome Sound Waves

10 lectures • 47:09

Your Learning Takeaway from this Section01:41
Download your footage to follow along00:12
The Audio Spectrum Effect - Using the Polar Property09:42
The Audio Spectrum Effect - Overview and Controls07:01
The Audio Spectrum Effect - Controls Part 103:09
+5 more lectures

Your Complete Guide to the Radio Wave Effect in its Multiple Wave Types

10 lectures • 56:06

Intro to the Radio Waves Effects04:39
Download your Project and Footage Files for this section00:12
How to use the Polygon Wave Type04:03
How to use the Wave Motion Controls07:06
The Stroke Controls with Polygon Wave Type07:37
+5 more lectures

Your Complete Guide to the CC Spotlight Effect - Create Spotlight for your Video

6 lectures • 28:19

What you will learn about CC Spotlight01:14
Download your Project and Footage Files for this section00:12
Working with CC Spotlight Effect05:59
How to create Light Only Spotlight05:43
Images and Videos with the Gel CC Spotlight Effect Property08:51
+1 more lectures

Tips to Help You out Work Better or Faster

15 lectures • 48:57

About this Tips Section00:53
How to create Backup Copies of your Project03:27
Scaling your Comp Without any layer Change03:29
Moving the Anchor Point with Precision02:14
Keyframe Navigation03:30
+10 more lectures

Exporting Your Work from After Effects

5 lectures • 21:01

How to Create a Pro YouTube Videos: Adobe Media Encoder05:34
Exporting with Transparent Background07:46
Exporting your Composition as GIF02:33
Exporting a Comp to a New Project02:45
Importing a Project into another Project02:23

Not the End!

2 lectures • 03:48

Where to find fonts00:06
Conclusion03:42

Bonus and More

1 lectures • 02:01

Bonus: Your next step.02:01

Description

Updated for CC 2025.

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  • 34.5 hours on-demand video
  • 36 articles
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Instructors

Louay Zambarakji

Kaiversity Online

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