Beginning After Effects CS3

Instructor: Brian Racherbaeumer

After Effects enables you to produce professional quality motion graphics, special effects, title sequences, and animation for integration into your projects. This workshop will familiarize you with the AE interface and cover basic key frame animation, including: Bezier curves, masks and motion paths, time remapping, spatial vs. temporal key frame control and key frame assistants

• Other topics include:
• Blending mode manipulation
• Basic filter effects
• Media import and render output options
• Nesting compositions
• Paint tools
• Animating text
• Basic 3D manipulation and motion tracking.
• 10 lab hours included w/ class.

Brian Racherbauemer picked up his first movie camera at the age of 12 and hasn't put the camera down since. He refined his filmmaking skills at Bradley University, where he practiced several classic animation techniques, including claymation and paint-on-glass animation, while earning a BFA in painting. In Seattle, Brian wrote and directed both live action and animated videos, created multi-media content for local theater productions and taught classes at Viacom Public Access Television. He later co-founded FLUX Productions, coordinating large-venue multi-media events that featured large-scale art installations and interactive video performances. He is also a six-year alumnus of RealNetworks, where he mastered the technique of streaming media and created online video and animation content for the non-profit community. Today, Brian's business RacherVision continues to provide video production, post and animation services to a variety of clients, including Earthjustice, DigiPen Institute, LUX Media, Piranha Productions, Watts Media, Worktank Creative Media and Union of Concerned Scientists. www.rachervision.com