Free online courseAdobe After effects

Course Description

Build the confidence to turn ordinary footage and flat designs into polished motion graphics with this free online Adobe After Effects course. Made for true beginners, it walks you from opening the app for the first time to creating clean, purposeful animations you can use in videos, social content, ads, and portfolio pieces. Instead of jumping straight to flashy tricks, you learn the workflow that professionals rely on so your projects stay organized, editable, and easy to refine.

You will get comfortable with the interface, how layers behave, and how compositions help you structure scenes. From there, you’ll learn how motion is created and controlled using keyframes, timing, easing, and time stretching, giving you the ability to make animation feel smooth, intentional, and believable. As you progress, you’ll start combining multiple elements efficiently through precomposing, parenting, and the use of null objects—skills that make complex animations manageable and keep your timeline clean.

The course also helps you create and animate shapes, draw and edit paths with the pen tool, and move elements along a path for dynamic results. You will explore practical effects work, including text animation presets, transitions, colour effects, blending modes, and adjustment layers, so you can style shots consistently without destructive edits. Masking and track mattes are covered in a way that connects them to real creative outcomes, such as revealing footage, building smooth wipes, and controlling what appears on screen.

Along the way, you’ll practice with hands-on projects like animating type with images, creating simple transitions, synchronising visuals to music, enhancing colour, animating still images, and building and animating a simple 2D scene. By the end, you’ll know how to prepare files, troubleshoot common issues, and export deliverables with confidence—leaving you with practical skills for video editing, motion design, and creative work across many industries.