After Effects Guru: Animating Logos

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Free Online Course: After Effects Guru: Animating Logos provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. After Effects Guru: Animating Logos is taught by Ian Robinson.

Overview
  • Combine the powers of Photoshop, After Effects, and Illustrator to make polished logo animations for yourself and your clients.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • Using the exercise files
    • What you should know before watching this course
    1. Optimizing Logos for Video
    • Defining preferred file formats
    • Synchronizing colors across the Adobe Creative Suite
    • Resizing bitmap logos in Photoshop
    • Resizing for speed with vectors
    2. Animating the Citrus Logo
    • Optimizing layers for animation in After Effects
    • Repeating animation with the Keyframe Assistant
    • Animating with colors
    • Stylizing with texture
    • Finalizing the reveal
    3. Animating Type Logos
    • Figuring out which fonts have been used
    • Creating animation without the font
    • Multi-element animation techniques
    • Building and saving transitional elements
    4. Finishing Quickly
    • Formatting animated logo bugs
    • Delivering animation with transparency
    Conclusion
    • Wrapping up