Instructor: Christian Kelley-Madera
This is one workshop session with a ½ hour break from 2:00pm – 2:30pm

This course is open to 5 active assistant or Editing Room Assistant who'd like to use After Effects to tackle temp comps which would be extremely difficult within Avid

Pre-requisites: Students should have some experience doing temp comps in Avid. Basic familiarity with After Effects will be helpful but not required/assumed.


COURSE DESCRIPTION

 
This course is designed to showcase some of the most useful tools in After Effects that are not availabe in Avid or Premiere. These will allow you to handle temp comps that would be nightmarish or impossible in an NLE. We will tackle a series of temp comps of increasing difficulty, which will introduce the fundamentals of After Effects and move up to more advanced techniques.


OUTLINE

1. After Effects Fundamentals, including layers, transparency, and transforms
2. Next steps, including Pre-Compose, Keyframes, 2D Tracking, and Keying
3. Advanced Techniques, including 3D Camera Tracking and tricks for Rotoscoping
4. (If Time Allows) Extra Advanced exercise of building a 3D clean plate


BIO

Christian is a VFX and Assistant Editor based in New York. He does a lot of temp comps, and is ideologically opposed to them being any harder than they have to.  Credits include Season 1 of Marco Polo, The Purge 3: Election Year, The Mountain Between Us, and Disney’s Noelle. He loves the opportunity to teach other members how to work smarter not harder in VFX.


RSVP

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Note: No walk-ins and no guests will be permitted.  You will receive a confirmation, once you are registered. No phone call RSVPs will be accepted.