After Effects Expressions Made Easy
Pluralsight
Course Summary
In this After Effects tutorial, we will demystify expressions and make them easy. Software required: After Effects CS5.5.
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Course Description
In this After Effects tutorial, we will demystify expressions and make them easy. This course is for the After Effects artist that thinks expressions are scary math wizardry that is too complicated to understand. In reality you do many expression-like things every time you use After Effects, and if you can use the pick whip to parent two layers together you can create expressions with the best of them. The goal of this course is to get you comfortable with creating and reading expressions. Software required: After Effects CS5.5.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction and Project Overview- 1m 34s
—Introduction and Project Overview 1m 34sAfter Effects Expressions Made Easy- 2h 16m
—Expressions Do Not Have to Be Scary Math, Coding, or Scripting 4m 44s
—Pick Whip Parenting and Expressions 9m 20s
—Modifying Our Expressions Values with Hard-coded Values 10m 46s
—Adding and Connecting Expression Control Effects for Fast Edits 9m 15s
—Accessing Information About Other Layers in Expressions 7m 50s
—Using Information from After Effects in Expressions 12m 17s
—Getting Properties from the Expression Language Menu 8m 36s
—Using Our Current Values or Keyframes to Drive Expressions 5m 50s
—Adding Random Movement with the Wiggle Expression 10m 30s
—Repeating Animation with Various Loop Expressions 10m 2s
—Working with Multi-value Array Properties like Position 11m 49s
—Saving an Expression and Its Controls in an Animation Preset 7m 48s
—Using Variables to Store Information and Write Cleaner Expressions 11m 16s
—Precomping Our Expressions Layers and Creating Copies 5m 49s
—Building a Versatile 3D Layer Controller with Expressions 10m 31s