After Effects Expressions Made Easy
In this After Effects tutorial, we will demystify expressions and make them easy. Software required: After Effects CS5.5.
What you'll learn
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.
Table of contents
- Expressions Do Not Have to Be Scary Math, Coding, or Scripting 5m
- Pick Whip Parenting and Expressions 9m
- Modifying Our Expressions Values with Hard-coded Values 11m
- Adding and Connecting Expression Control Effects for Fast Edits 9m
- Accessing Information About Other Layers in Expressions 8m
- Using Information from After Effects in Expressions 12m
- Getting Properties from the Expression Language Menu 9m
- Using Our Current Values or Keyframes to Drive Expressions 6m
- Adding Random Movement with the Wiggle Expression 11m
- Repeating Animation with Various Loop Expressions 10m
- Working with Multi-value Array Properties like Position 12m
- Saving an Expression and Its Controls in an Animation Preset 8m
- Using Variables to Store Information and Write Cleaner Expressions 11m
- Precomping Our Expressions Layers and Creating Copies 6m
- Building a Versatile 3D Layer Controller with Expressions 11m
About the author
Along with creating and recording training, he also used to manage the support team and work closely with the production development team at Digital-Tutors, now a Pluralsight company. He began his career working freelance and quickly realized that he wanted to find a company where he could use his talents to help people succeed in the CG industry. Chris has likely watched more Pluralsight creative training than anyone on the planet, and its evidenced by his Einstein-sized brain and encyclopedic... more