Self-paced Intermediate Creative Cloud 2026

Motion Graphics Bootcamp

Four intensive days in After Effects, from first keyframe to a finished showreel piece

$99.00

per person, including materials

Start the moment you buy it, work at your own pace, and keep access for twelve months.

How you learn

About this course

Motion work rarely fails because of effects. It fails on timing. The logo lands a beat late, the lower third slides in at a constant speed and reads as amateur, the text is legible on the edit suite monitor and unreadable on a phone. This bootcamp spends four days on the craft that fixes those things: keyframe interpolation, the graph editor, hierarchy and, above all, restraint.

You animate from the first afternoon. Across the four days you build a shape-layer logo sting, a kinetic typography piece cut to a voice track, a lower third that sits over moving footage without wobbling, a rotoscoped subject lifted from a busy background, and a short explainer sequence assembled from precomps. You track text onto a filmed surface, key a green screen clip, and finish with a colour and audio pass. The last day turns your lower third into an Essential Graphics template exported as a .mogrt file, so an editor can restyle it in Premiere Pro without opening After Effects at all.

The pace is deliberate on the fundamentals and fast afterwards. Each module is a short demonstration followed by you building the same thing, and the exercises stack: the shape work on day one becomes the sting you render on day four. You keep every project file, the footage, the audio and the class recording for twelve months, which matters on a bootcamp because nobody absorbs twenty-four hours of software in one week.

Content is mapped to the domains of the Adobe Certified Professional in Adobe After Effects exam, delivered by Certiport at authorised test centres. The course prepares you for that exam and closes with a timed practice task in the same shape as the real one. MyLearnPlus does not award the Adobe credential and no course can guarantee a pass, but you will finish knowing which objectives are solid and which need more time in the application.

The bootcamp runs live online in your own timezone or in the classroom in Colombo. Pricing is shown in LKR for learners in Sri Lanka and in USD for everyone else. Teams can be invoiced, and the same four days can be run privately for a single organisation on your own brand assets.

What you'll be able to do

Set up a composition with the correct frame size, frame rate and duration for a named delivery spec, and organise the project so a colleague can open it.
Animate transform properties with keyframes, then control the feel of the move with easing and the graph editor rather than by adding more keyframes.
Build an animated logo sting from shape layers using path animation, trim paths and repeaters.
Produce a kinetic typography piece cut to a voice track using text animators and range selectors.
Structure a longer sequence with precomps, parenting and null objects, and reuse a single element at three different scales.
Animate a lower third over moving footage using masks, track mattes and a two-point track so it stays locked to the shot.
Separate a subject from a busy background with the Roto Brush, and key a green screen clip with Keylight.
Apply a colour grade and mix a soundtrack, voice and effects to a consistent level across the sequence.
Convert a lower third into an Essential Graphics template and export it as a .mogrt file an editor can restyle in Premiere Pro.
Render and deliver the same sequence three ways through the render queue and Adobe Media Encoder: a master file, a web H.264 and a vertical social cut.

What we cover

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Day 1, Morning — Compositions, layers and the first keyframes

How an After Effects project is put together, and the transform properties every animation is built from.

The workspace, panels and a saved layout you can work in 30 min
Project setup: frame size, frame rate, duration and folder discipline 35 min
Importing footage, Photoshop and Illustrator files with layers intact 35 min
Position, Scale, Rotation, Opacity and Anchor Point, and why the anchor point decides the move 45 min
First animation: keyframes, the timeline, previews and RAM playback 35 min

Day 1, Afternoon — Shape layers and an animated logo sting

Building artwork inside After Effects and animating it into a five second logo sting.

Shape layers, paths, strokes and fills, and shape groups 40 min
Trim Paths for lines that draw themselves 35 min
Repeaters, offsets and building pattern from one shape 35 min
Bringing an Illustrator logo in and converting it to editable shapes 30 min
Build: a five second logo sting from shapes and the supplied logo 40 min

Day 2, Morning — Type in motion

Text layers, animators and range selectors, applied to a kinetic typography piece cut to a voice track.

Text layers, character and paragraph settings, and legibility on small screens 30 min
Text animators and range selectors: animating by character, word and line 45 min
Reading a voice track: waveform, markers and cutting animation to speech 35 min
Type on a path, and masks that reveal words rather than fade them 30 min
Build: a twenty second kinetic typography piece to the supplied voice track 40 min

Day 2, Afternoon — Timing, easing and hierarchy

The graph editor, parenting and a first set of expressions, which is where amateur motion becomes professional motion.

Easy Ease, speed graphs and value graphs in the graph editor 45 min
Overshoot, anticipation and follow through applied to your logo sting 35 min
Parenting, null objects and rigging a group of layers to one control 35 min
Precomposing: nesting, timing inside precomps and reusing one element three times 35 min
Three expressions worth knowing: wiggle, loopOut and time 30 min

Day 3, Morning — Working over footage

Masks, track mattes, blending modes and 3D space, used to place graphics into a filmed shot.

Masks, feathering and animated mask paths 35 min
Track mattes and blending modes for reveals and knock-outs 35 min
Switching layers to 3D, cameras, depth of field and a simple lighting setup 45 min
Adjustment layers and effect stacks that stay editable 25 min
Build: a lower third designed to sit over the supplied interview footage 40 min

Day 3, Afternoon — Tracking, rotoscoping and keying

Getting graphics to stick to a moving shot, and getting a subject out of a background.

Stabilising a handheld shot and one and two point motion tracking 40 min
The 3D Camera Tracker: placing text on a surface in a moving shot 40 min
Roto Brush and refining the matte frame by frame 45 min
Keylight on green screen: spill suppression, edges and a believable composite 35 min
Time remapping, speed ramps and frame blending 20 min

Day 4, Morning — Finish, colour, audio and templates

Grading, sound and turning your graphic into a template an editor can use without After Effects.

Colour correction and grading with Lumetri on an adjustment layer 40 min
Audio: levels for voice, music and effects, and keyframing a duck under dialogue 30 min
Essential Graphics: exposing colour, text and position as editable controls 45 min
Exporting a .mogrt file and restyling it in Premiere Pro 35 min
Dynamic Link between After Effects and Premiere Pro, and when not to use it 30 min

Day 4, Afternoon — Render, deliver and review

Getting the work out at the right specification, three ways, then a critique and the exam practice task.

Render queue, output modules and a lossless master file 35 min
Adobe Media Encoder: H.264 for web, bitrates and file size 35 min
Reframing one sequence for 16:9, 1:1 and 9:16 without redoing the animation 35 min
Collecting files, proxies and archiving a finished project 25 min
Group review of the pieces built during the week 25 min
Exam objectives review and a timed practice task 25 min

What's included

Recording of all four days, available for 12 months
Project files, footage, voice track and music used in class, yours to keep
Course workbook covering every build demonstrated across the four days
Practice questions written against the Adobe Certified Professional exam domains
MyLearnPlus certificate of completion
Instructor email support after the bootcamp for questions on your own projects
One free repeat of the same live bootcamp, terms shown on the booking page

Certification

Prepares for the Adobe Certified Professional in Adobe After Effects exam

Adobe Certified Professional exams are set and awarded by Adobe through Certiport. This course prepares you for one; it does not award it, and no course can guarantee a pass.

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