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Must-Have After Effects Skills for Motion Designers

This video covers the After Effects skills you need to know as a motion designer. From setting up organized project files, setting keyframes, to stylizing your animations with effects and layer styles, these are the skills you should focus on.

In this video:

0:42 - Setting up your project file

1:54 - Importing files and creating graphics

2:45 - Properties and keyframes

4:32 - Controlling motion

6:11 - Adding additional properties

7:09 - Masks and mattes

7:33 - Parenting and pre-compositions

9:10 - Rendering

Free guide + project template — what you need to learn to master motion design

Mentioned in this video:

🎬 How to Animate in After Effects - 5 Easy Steps

🎬 Create Your First After Effects Animation in 5 Easy Steps

Learn skills mentioned in this video:

Text Animators

Essential Graphics (and creating motion graphic templates for Premiere)

Looping Animations

Expressions

After Effects, Explained

Build real-world animation skills through 7 hands-on projects that come together as a final explainer animation. For beginner and intermediate animators ready to build real projects.

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