Overview
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Explore After Effects tools that help with the animation "between" the animation: Keyframe Assistant, expressions, and third-party assistants like Layer Monkey and Ease and Wizz.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Preparing Creative Cloud assets for animation
- Building the sequence of layers
- Distributing and positioning a sequence of images
- Controlling playback of sequenced layers with time controls
- Putting it all together
- Exploring motion between keyframes
- Adding intensity to animation with audio-driven keyframes
- Creating dynamic random animation with the Wiggler
- Getting started with expressions
- Creating expressions for type animation
- Creating random motion with expressions
- Simulating realistic movement with expressions
- Converting animation between expressions and keyframes
- Saving expressions
- Installing third-party assistant scripts
- Understanding LayerMonkey and TypeMonkey
- Building animation with TypeMonkey
- Building custom animations with LayerMonkey
- Building animation with MotionMonkey
- Combining LayerMonkey and MotionMonkey
- Exploring Ease and Wizz
- Positioning layers with PlaneSpace
- Repeating graphics with Trapcode Echospace
- Next steps
