I spent last weekend going through step by step of the After Effects tutorial just released, (obviously I didn’t teach it) and the weekend before that I watched another lesson (soon to be released). So I’m starting to feel like the training wheels are coming off, and its exciting to be playing around. Especially coming from a Flash background I can see how these two programs will really come in handy together. And Adobe has done a great job making After Effects and Flash feel like sister products.
Anyway, let me talk a little bit about the specifics of this tutorial. The first hour is an introduction to the program. Jeremy, the instructor, goes through an overview of the user interface, and gets into some conceptual stuff, like what a composition is, why use them, etc. Jeremy also uses Flash so he makes some cool comparisons between the two that will be helpful if you’re coming from that background like me.

The last two hours deal with creating the Arrivals Board, ( you might recognize the letter flip effect from the beginning credits to the movie “The Terminal”). This is a genuinely fun starter project and relatively easy, but you should get a feel for the real power of After Effects. So again, I’m sold. Like that hair plug guy used to say, “I’m not only the president, I’m also a client”…. If you didn’t get the Adobe suite with AfterEffects, consider upgrading to include it. They do have that option somewhere on the site.

Download:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/a4sYpTs/CSAEAB.part1.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/CJwCSk4/CSAEAB.part2.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/uga9Xtp/CSAEAB.part3.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/tEmTRMt/CSAEAB.part4.rar