Lynda - Creating Project Templates with After Effects

Size: 890MB | Duration: 2h 49m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 30fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch

Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Language: English

Mograph designers and artists are always looking for new templates—and they're often willing to pay for them. Building template-based projects in After Effects is also a great way to earn extra income while improving your design skills. In this course, you'll create a working project template in After Effects and prepare it for sale. You'll learn how to build the project from flexible shape layers and text layers, adding some effects along the way. You'll also find out how to set up the project to make it easy for other designers to make changes to the color, text, and animation, and customize the project to suit their needs. Author Angie Taylor also shows the best ways to save and package template projects for web delivery or for submission to Adobe's Creative Cloud Market.

Topics include:

* Coming up with project ideas

* Planning projects

* Building backgrounds and graphical animated elements

* Formatting text

* Structuring the project with controller layers

* Working with color

* Optimizing projects

* Making templates easy for others to use

* Packaging your template project

* Selling your project