Jan Jancik
Monday 10:00 – 12:00
Adobe After Effects from the ground up — no prior knowledge required.
By the end of the course you will know the software well enough to build your own small animations and compositions, organise them cleanly and export them correctly. The course lays the foundation for “Digital Compositing 2” in the summer semester.
Topics:
- Project setup, compositions and footage interpretation
- Layers, transformations, anchor point and parenting
- Keyframes, timing and interpolation
- Graph editor, motion blur, audio and export
- Masks, alpha channel, track mattes and blending modes
- Shape layers, operators, typography and text animators
- Effects, adjustment layers, render order and precomposing
- Time remapping and first expressions
- 3D space, camera, lights and parallax
- Project organisation, interoperability with Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere
The course “Digital Compositing 2” follows in the summer semester and covers further topics such as rotoscoping, keying, camera tracking (2D & 3D), screen replacement, compositing and CG integration.
Dates 2026W
- 12. October 2026
- 19. October 2026
- 26. October 2026
- 09. November 2026
- 16. November 2026
- 23. November 2026
- 30. November 2026
- 07. December 2026
- 14. December 2026
- 11. January 2027
- 18. January 2027