Phil Ebiner – After Effects CC Masters: VFX, Motion Graphics, Animation+ (Download)
Videos without motion graphics and visual effects often feel flat and unprofessional in today’s competitive content landscape. Whether you’re creating YouTube videos, marketing content, music videos, or even feature films, Adobe After Effects is the industry-standard tool that transforms ordinary footage into eye-catching visual experiences. This comprehensive course takes you from complete beginner to confident creator, ready to bring your video ideas to life.
About the Course and Instructor
Phil Ebiner, a professional motion graphics artist and video creator who has taught over 3 million students worldwide, leads this hands-on After Effects training. Phil’s teaching approach emphasizes learning by doing—you’ll work with practice files and complete dozens of real-world projects that build both your skills and portfolio. His supportive teaching style and commitment to student success make complex techniques feel achievable, even for absolute beginners.
The course works with Creative Cloud and earlier versions (CS6, CS5) on both Mac and PC.
What You’ll Learn
After Effects Fundamentals: Navigate the interface confidently, start new compositions, import and organize media, use essential tools, understand the timeline, work with layer transformations, and master the properties panel introduced in recent updates.
Animation with Keyframes: Create smooth animations using keyframes for opacity, position, scale, and rotation. Improve your animations with Easy Ease and motion blur, dive into the graph editor for advanced control, and tackle a classic bouncing ball animation challenge that teaches fundamental physics and timing principles.
Shapes and Visual Design: Work with solid layers and shape layers, apply layer styles including drop shadows, bevels, and gradients, use shape effects creatively, and take advantage of newer features like tapered strokes and concentric shapes for modern design aesthetics.
Essential Professional Skills: Master track mattes to control layer visibility, use pre-compositions for organizing complex projects, reverse animations quickly, work with freeze frames and time remapping, understand blend modes for creative compositing, stabilize shaky footage, preview fonts efficiently, implement responsive design, and use content-aware fill to remove unwanted elements.
Motion Graphics Projects: Build practical skills through real-world projects including clean lower thirds, colorful transitions, text mask transitions, bubble pop-up animations, user interface animations (weather app design), and logo reveals. These projects mirror what clients and employers actually need.
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Green Screen and VFX: Remove green screens with Keylight, match backgrounds to foreground subjects, add motion to still images using the puppet tool, and create realistic compositions with parenting and effects like ripple.
3D Animation: Work in 3D space within After Effects, use the camera tool and views, create swinging 3D text animations with null objects, build 3D compositions, and generate particle effects like stars.
Rotoscoping: Make precise selections with the rotoscope tool, clean up edges for professional results, and apply rotoscoping techniques to real projects that require isolating subjects frame by frame.
Throughout the course, you’ll learn motion graphics principles, best practices, and workflow optimization techniques that professional artists use daily. You’ll also master exporting projects and creating motion graphics templates for use in Premiere Pro.
Who Should Enroll
This course is perfect for videographers and video editors wanting to add motion graphics skills, YouTubers and vloggers elevating their content quality, graphic designers expanding into animation, businesses using video marketing, and complete beginners with no prior After Effects experience. The course assumes no previous knowledge and builds your confidence through practice and real projects.
