Overview
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Discover free third-party scripts and tips for incorporating typography, color, contrast, and animation into your After Effects projects.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Course introduction: Design Theory & Animation
- Using this course
- Installing scripts
- Designing with C.R.A.P. (the four principles of design)
- Better vector tools with Shapes & Masks
- Create Gear and TextBox scripts
- Create3DShapes script
- More robust alignment with the Align3D script
- Alignment and proximity animation with Gridder
- Quick color theory
- Color palettes in AE with Adobe Color Themes
- Color palettes in AE with Swatcher Script
- Randomized colors with Randomatic
- Typography: Consider it for font's sake!
- Saving customized fonts with the Font Styles Library script
- Breaking up text layers with the DecomposeText script
- Animating text with the TextEvo script
- Spell check in AE with the After Spell script
- The 5-step quick composite for a unified look
- Texture quickly with Ray Dynamic Texture
- Utilizing layer guides, grids, and guide layers
- Customizing font files with FontForge
- Creating infographics
- Retro LCD style with LCDeffect and ASCII Generator
- Photos in motion
- Next steps
