After Effects Classes Seattle, WA

Learn video editing, motion graphics (animation and video effects), and audio editing. Master Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Audition. Then showcase what you've learned by creating video editing and motion graphics demo reels. This course comes with one-on-one mentoring sessions where you'll receive career advice, interview prep, and resume advising from an industry expert.

Join this comprehensive course to learn motion graphics from beginner to advanced levels and earn your professional certification. This hands-on course includes in-depth training, personalized private tutoring, and preparation for the Adobe Certified Professional exam for After Effects, with the flexibility to opt for additional private tutoring if the exam is not your goal.

In this 18-hour class, participants will take their After Effects skills to the next level. Students will integrate video footage with graphics using masks, learn green screen removal, create lower third graphics, sync animation to audio, and more. Attendees will create a simple character animation, rotoscope live-action, and use scripts to automate tasks. Students will have the opportunity to work on real-world projects to cement their understanding of the tools and key concepts covered in this course. The class includes a free retake and a step-by-step workbook.

This course covers advanced compositing techniques using Adobe After Effects, focusing on tasks like green screen keying, motion tracking, and color grading. Students will learn to seamlessly blend visual elements to create professional-level composites that enhance storytelling. Through practical exercises, students master the art of visual effects, enabling them to produce polished, cinematic scenes.

In this 6-hour class, participants will get started with the basics of Adobe After Effects for creating animations and motion graphics. Attendees will learn to animate graphics and text. Students will import designs (created in Photoshop and Illustrator) into After Effects, animate them, work with a timeline, keyframes, basic easing, and discover how to export the final animation as a video or animated GIF, plus much more. The class includes a free retake and a step-by-step workbook.

This 2-day, introductory After Effects course will teach students the fundamentals of designing cinematic visual effects and eye-catching motion graphics. The course covers a wide range of tools and topics, including the After Effects workflow, how to create basic animation using effects and presets, how to animate text, working with shape layers, the basics of advanced animation, how to distort objects with the puppet tool, and more. Prereq Note: Some background with Adobe products and/or video and design software is helpful.

This 6-hour, intermediate After Effects course will take students beyond the basics and teach a few of the more advanced features in order to create fantastic motion graphics and visual effects. The course covers a wide range intermediate tools and topics, including how use the Rotobrush tool, performing color corrections, using 3D features, working with the 3D camera tracker, advanced editing techniques, rendering, outputs, and more.

This is a 3-day course that gives students foundational skills in Adobe After Effects. Students will learn how to animate text and images, create motion graphics, and develop 3D content. Students will also have an opportunity to practice working with masks, adding lens flares, using puppet tools, and employing advanced editing techniques.

Take your Adobe After Effects skills to the next level in this fifteen-hour intermediate course. Add motion effects to images, graphics, and copy to create eye-catching documents which add value to the reader. Through a combination of live instruction, hands-on learning, and class discussions, participants cover areas like keyframing, compositing, masking, mattes, kinetic typography, and GIF animation.