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The six foundations of After Effects

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The six foundations of After Effects

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- After Effects is capable of a lot of different things and in this first section of the course, I'm going to show you what I call it's six fundamental foundations. If you know these well, you'll find yourself becoming fully fluent in After Effects. If you don't even know what they are, it's hard to imagine where to even start. So, without any further fanfare, here's my list of the six fundamental foundations; compositions, layers, animation, 3D, effects and rendering. We'll begin by creating a simple shot that touches on each of these foundations. Don't worry about following along step by step on this one, we'll spend the rest of the course going deeper and this lesson is designed to be an overview. So here is After Effects. Where do I start? I'll start by clicking on one of these two icons here to create a composition because a composition is where all the work in After Effects gets done. If I choose New Composition…

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