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You will learn the fundamentals of Adobe After Effects by creating Gradient Animations. You'll learn how to create a simple gradient design, create a simple gradient animation, apply different colors, choose your complementary color scheme, and all the tools and skills to create a dynamic background for your videos. This course is perfect for all illustrators, graphic designers, motion designers, game artists of all levels, including beginners or anyone else looking to have some fun with After Effects!

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You will need Adobe After Effects installed
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Adobe After Effects: Learn to Create Gradient Animations

May 18 2021 - Video Course (41 mins)

This is an excellent way for beginners to get introduced to Adobe After Effects by creating these simple Gradient Animations. In this course, you'll learn how to make simple gradient animations that are flexible and fully customizable, making them easier to fit with your project, website, or social media platform. Each step will be broken down to make understanding the process even easier. Using color gradients are a great way to grab someone's attention and add some color to your videos. An effective animation will bring new life to your project and will ensure your presentation or video makes the impact it deserves. Follow along as we use basic color combinations to create this animation.


Created by Jonathan Lam

Adobe Illustrator

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What you'll learn

You will learn the fundamentals of Adobe After Effects by creating Gradient Animations. You'll learn how to create a simple gradient design, create a simple gradient animation, apply different colors, choose your complementary color scheme, and all the tools and skills to create a dynamic background for your videos. This course is perfect for all illustrators, graphic designers, motion designers, game artists of all levels, including beginners or anyone else looking to have some fun with After Effects!

Requirements

You will need Adobe After Effects installed

Course Content

2 Units - 7 video lessons
Basic of Gradient Animation
An effective animation will bring new life to your project and will ensure your presentation or video makes the impact it deserves. In this lesson, you will learn how to create great animated radiance to use in your projects. Starting with how to choose your complementary color, I’ll take you through the tools and skills necessary to create radiance, using basic shapes, and how to animate them.
00:55
Learning to Navigate Adobe After Effects
Whether you are just starting your After Effect Journey or an after effect expert, I will take you through a brief introduction to Adobe After Effects, the tools we'll use throughout the course. You will learn how to create the workspace, make panel float on windows or Mac, set up and pick color palettes, and how you can review your animations while working on experimenting with different layouts.
06:58
Identifying Color Schemes
Sometimes, choosing a suitable color scheme for your projects can be extremely difficult, especially for a beginner. In this lesson, you will learn how to select colors, create a color palette and scheme for upgrading background using Adobe Color.
04:15
Using Color Schemes
In this lesson, you will learn how to apply your chosen color scheme to your gradient in Adobe After Effects. We will start by creating a composition, make sure the dimensions are set, set the frame rates, set the time duration, import the color scheme, and create shapes.
11:17
Using Shapes to Create Gradients
In this lesson, you will learn how to adjust and use basic shapes to create gradient designs for your animation.
05:58
Gradient Composition
In this lesson, you will learn how to edit your gradient composition to your liking. We will create a composition, make use of the eyedropper tool. You can play around with any color that you want until you’re happy with it.
07:34
Animation
In this unit, you will learn how to animate your gradient design in Adobe After Effects. To get started with our animation, we need to make sure that we are in the gradient design composition. We will set the exact time that we want. After creating the animation, we will preview our animation. You can adjust things like Blur or oil effects.
04:55

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Jonathan Lam

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Hi everyone! My name is Jonathan Lam and I'm a Digital Artist on a mission to empower, educate and inspire creative students just like you to gain the creative skills you desire! Currently I work for Ubisoft as a concept and game artist. My skills range from graphic design, illustration, animation, 3D modelling/sculpting, concept art and video editing. Some of the projects I've worked on include Hungry Shark World, Hungry Shark Evolution, Starbeard and the Kickstarter Funded Game called Eminence: Xander's Tales. I've also worked with many high profile clients including Riot Games, Sony Entertainment, Hasbro and Google as a graphic designer and illustrator.

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