Animation Courses

This two-day After Effects course teaches you the foundational skills to create exciting visual effects and motion graphics. In this After Effects class, you cover essential topics, starting with using the interface, layers, keyframes, masking, and media management. You'll explore the depth of the After Effects tools, including 3D effects and rendering your project for output. Discover how After Effects works as part of a video editing workflow or as a stand-alone tool for creating motion graphics.

In this two-day advanced After Effects course, you will discover advanced skills for creating visual effects and motion graphics. In this course, you learn advanced compositing, the timeline, selections, color correction, color keying, motion tracking, expressions, environmental effects, and more. Learn to integrate sophisticated motion graphics and special effects into your video editing projects or create dedicated motion graphics for presentations and displays. Our After Effects courses are led by the team that writes the best-selling After Effects Digital Classroom as you learn from live instructors who lead each course.

This four-day comprehensive After Effects training provides introductory through advanced skills for creating effects, animations, and motion graphics. This bootcamp combines our introductory through advanced After Effects classes into four consecutive days, providing you with an intensive multi-day workshop. The material covered is identical to the introductory and advanced After Effects courses, but is delivered in a single week. You start by learning essential After Effects skills and end the week with a full set of experience across a wide range of effects, color correction, compositing, and many other skills. This course is a perfect starting point for video editors wanting to learn effects and animations, as well as aspiring motion graphics and animation professionals.

This introductory Animate course provides you with an introduction to animation and interactivity. Learn to animate designs that can be shared on different screens and devices. In this two-day Animate course, you'll create immersive experiences including animation, video, audio, and images. Discover how to make your web and interactive content look polished, professional, and interesting as you learn Animate from AGI's team of experts, who are the authors of numerous books on digital animation tools from Adobe. No previous animation or web design experience is required for this course.

This Animate course takes you beyond the basics and you'll discover design techniques, workflow management such as sprite sheets, and gain a stronger foundation for working with Animate using HTML5 as well as scripting. This Animate class teaches you the skills necessary so you can use Animate to take your interactive and Web projects to the next level.

This Maya class teaches the foundational skills for working with this powerful 3D, animation, modeling, and rendering application. Master the Maya workspace, interface and essential tools. Learn to use Maya to model realistic hard surface models for both feature and real time application. Find out how to prepare props and models for animation by rigging, and learn to animate using cameras, logos, props, and character rigs. Learn to use Maya to create and assign realistic materials, light, and render using the included render engines. Attend this comprehensive Maya course online with a live instructor, or in our classrooms.

This advanced Maya class is for those who need to use Maya to its fullest capacity creating 3D designs. In this advanced Maya course participants learn expert techniques, strategies, and workflows for improving their work and efficiency. This Maya course covers advanced hard surface modeling, technical modeling, organic modeling, and set modeling. Learn advanced indoor and outdoor lighting rigs using light utilities and shaders along with advanced texture networks. Also learn animation workflows for creating more realistic animations. Also covered in this advanced Maya class are rendering pipelines, render layers, and batch rendering as well as integration with Photoshop and After Effects.

This Cinema 4D course teaches 3D animation and design, teaching the skills needed for creating professional-quality 3D projects. Learn to manipulate objects and cameras in 3D space, set up dynamic lighting, apply textures and materials, and animate scenes for compelling visuals. The course also covers the seamless integration between Cinema 4D and After Effects, allowing for enhanced workflows in motion graphics. Ideal for motion designers, animators, and creative professionals, the course provides a hands-on approach to learning 3D modeling, lighting, and animation techniques.

This 3DS Max course provides comprehensive training on 3D modeling, animation, and rendering. Learn to navigate the interface, manage projects, and work with transforms and modifiers to build 3D models from 2D shapes. Discover how to use materials, texturing, lighting, and rendering techniques, as well as animation basics and camera setup. This course equips you with the skills needed to create professional-quality 3D models and visualizations for architecture, design, and animation projects. This 3DS Max training course gets you started in 3D design using techniques for modeling, materials, lighting, animating and rendering in 3D.