Tracking is one of the most powerful ways to make your After Effects work more sophisticated, and one of the hardest to get right. The human eye has an uncanny ability to sense the accuracy of motion. But once you learn to take advantage of the automated 3D tracker, automated motion stabilizer, and 2D point tracker in After Effects—as well as third-party scripts and planar tracking with mocha—a world of possibilities is opened.

As you already know, the high end retouching industry has been very tight lipped about the techniques they use to produce world class results for magazines, advertising campaigns, displays and billboards throughout the world.

In this class I'll show you step-by-step how to design your own personalized character for animating in After Effects, how to rig it, animate it, and export it as a looping GIF. I'll cover every step of my process in detail, so you can follow along even if you've never used After Effects before. I've even included all of my source design and animation project files for my four character loops at the bottom of this page. That way if you're curious how I animated my characters, or want to skip the design process and just jump into animation, you can just use my files.

This training thoroughly takes you through the entire process involved in creating a large variety of realistic Real World Animations using the Ted videos and After Effects as a learning platform.

SkillShare - Animating With Ease in After Effects

Duration: 1h 19m | Video: yuv420p, 1280x720, 30 fps | Audio: aac, 22050 Hz, mono | 2.70 GB

Genre: eLearning | Language: English

You've learned the basics. Keyframes are in your toolbox. Now it's time to take the next step as an animator and unleash the power of After Effects' graph editor!

Follow along with me as I edit three portrait styles in Lightroom using VSCO Film. Go out and shoot some portraits or use some photos you already have on your computer. This class will you help you get aquainted with Lightroom if you're just starting out, as well as show how the VSCO Film presets can ch...

• What's new in 3ds Max 2017? The new user interface is key: flatter and faster than before. 3ds Max 2017 also introduces the Autodesk Raytracer (ART), a physically based renderer for photorealistic stills. Aaron F. Ross covers these features plus many others, explaining what to expect and how to use the new asset management, modeling, animation, materials, and rendering tools.

Photoshop CC 2017 for Photographers: New Features
Size: 535 MB | Duration: 0h 41m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 30fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch
Genre: eLearning | Level: Beginner | Language: English

• Adobe never stops evolving Creative Cloud—including their flagship photo-editing software, Photoshop. Learn what's new for photographers in the latest version, Photoshop CC 2017.
• Photographer and educator Chris Orwig reviews the interface updates, such as the new Start screen, updated library, and search, as well as exciting photo-specific enhancements like selection and mask improvements and Face-Aware Liquify, which makes intelligent portrait retouching a snap. Plus, learn about sharing and selling your photos by publishing directly to Adobe Stock. The November 2016 release is just the first of many updates for Photoshop CC 2017. Chris will update the course as soon as new features are released. Check back often for new tutorials.