Brands and content creators now pay well for a few seconds of smooth, professional motion – and animators who can package and sell their own animation templates online have turned that skill into a steady freelance income stream. This Motion Graphics and Adobe After Effects Training Course by the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy is built around that opportunity, taking participants from the interface and basic keyframing all the way to advanced effects, so they can produce complete motion graphics projects independently.

As demand for motion graphics and visual effects keeps growing across video production, the course gives graphic designers, art students and anyone curious about 2D animation a structured, hands-on path into Adobe After Effects.

Who Should Attend?

• Graphic designers, art directors and architects.
• Art students and artists exploring motion as a new medium.
• Animators looking to expand their toolkit.
• Anyone interested in creating 2D motion presentations.

Knowledge and Benefits:

After completing the program, participants will be able to master the following:

• Understand the After Effects workflow, and manipulate keyframes, layers and effects with confidence.
• Create transparency, add type and music, and export finished movie files.
• Design, animate and sequence complete motion graphics projects using built-in effects – no expensive third-party plugins.
• Apply special effects such as rotoscoping, chroma keying and camera tracking.

Module 1: Interface and Project Setup

• Project structure, main application window, and the Tools, Project, Composition, Timeline and Layer panels.
• Importing footage, understanding alpha channels and transparency, and managing workspaces and previews.

Module 2: Basic Keyframe Animation

• Starting a project, creating a composition, adding layers and changing property values.
• Animating position, scale, rotation and opacity, navigating keyframes and applying Easy Ease.
• Precise placement with snapping and grids, and rendering the first project.

Module 3: Advanced Animation with the Graph Editor

• Anchor points, motion control, and the Graph Editor for speed versus value graphs.
• Easing, smoothing, motion blur, motion sketch, and roving and time-reverse keyframes.

Module 4: Editing Layers, Effects and Transparency

• Layer stacking, trimming, sequencing, blending modes and animation presets.
• Masking tools, mask interpolation, track mattes, and colour keying with Keylight and green screen.
• Face tracking and rigid mask tracking for advanced compositing.

Module 5: Type, Music and Motion Text

• Creating and animating text with range selectors, wiggly selectors and text animation presets.
• Text on a path, title-safe areas, and adding, spotting and mixing audio in a composition.

Module 6: Rendering and Delivering the Final Project

• Render templates, Adobe Media Encoder, and rendering movies and image sequences.
• Diagnosing quality issues such as flickering and field/interlacing problems.