Welcome

- Hi, I'm Chris Meyer of Crish Design and welcome to the final project of After Effects Apprentice, 3rd Edition. Throughout this course you're gonna pull together a wide variety of skills that you've learned in the previous After Effects Apprentice courses. In doing so, you're gonna put together an opening title for a television program. Let's take a quick preview of what you'll be building. (calm melodic music) To create this you're gonna be working with music, including learning the magic templates for composing soundtracks, and spotting hit points in the final music, mocking up a 3D world, crafting a camera move through that world, performing 3D tracking, time stretching layers, typesetting text, applying animation presets, creating shape layers, nesting and precomposing, creating background elements including working with layered Photoshop files, writing expressions and rendering your composition including how to create 4x3 center cut and letterbox versions.

We'll also discuss how you deliver a graphics package for your client that would include lower thirds, bumpers and a looping background. We'll finish up by giving you a bunch of additional ideas of how you can take this design to the next level. Throughout this final project we will be focusing on real world workflows, and how you make creative decisions keeping your clients requirements in mind. We hope it turns out to be very useful for when you're creating projects, for your own clients. So without further ado, let's dive in and have fun creating this opening title in After Effects.