Desmond Du – Advanced After Effects: Coding for Motion Design

Take your motion design skills to the next level by learning to code expressions with JavaScript to create complex animation rigs with style

Expressions are snippets of code in JavaScript that allow you to create animations that would be impossible to design manually, and they’re one of the most efficient motion design tools in Adobe After Effects. Motion designer Desmond Du has been using expressions while collaborating with the NBA, Turner Classic Movies, Adobe, and Cartoon Network.

In this online course, Desmond teaches you how to code expressions to create complex animation rigs with style and ease. Learn to use a variety of techniques to make a series of abstract geometric animations that will be assembled and composite into the final project.

What You’ll Learn In Advanced After Effects: Coding for Motion Design?

1. Introduction
   • About Me
   • Influences
2. Introduction to Coding Expressions
   • Understanding the Assignment
   • The Basics of Coding
3. Familiarizing Yourself with Procedural Design
   • Step Repetition: Transforming Properties
   • Step Repetition: Animating with “valueAtTime”
   • Step Repetition: Working with Effects and Layers
   • Randomization: Animating Multiple Layers
   • Randomization: Displacement
   • Generating Number Sequences with For-Loop
   • Generative Design: Algorithms
   • Generative Design: Procedural Cyber Lines
4. Creation of a Sequence Animation
   • Compositing
   • Adding Type
   • Additional Design Assets
   • Stylization and Art Direction 1
   • Stylization and Art Direction 2
   • Faster Workflow with Animation Proxies
5. Taking It to the Next Level
   • Learning to Learn
   • Improvement and Collaborations
6. Final project
   • Advanced After Effects: Coding for Motion Design

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