Lynda - After Effects Scripts & Tips: 2 Design Theory & Animation

After Effects Scripts & Tips explores the best free third-party scripts, along with tactics, tricks, and workarounds, that make working in After Effects easier, more productive, and much more fun. In this course, instructor Owen Lowery focuses on a the design theories of contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity (C.R.A.P.) and shows simple, effective ways to put that theory into practice. Learn about color management and how the underlying meaning of colors impact your design. Discover innovative ways to incorporate typography and custom fonts. Find out how to align 3D objects, integrate logo designs into projects, animate text, and more. The lessons aren't linear, so feel free to jump around and explore whatever scripts and tips are most interesting to you.

Topics include:

Focusing on contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity
Creating vector graphics with the Shapes & Masks script
Aligning with the Align3D script
Developing color palettes with Adobe Color Themes and Swatcher Script
Randomizing colors with Randomatic
Saving custom fonts with the Font Styles Library plugin
Animating text with TextEvo
Texturing quickly with Ray Dynamic Texture
Customizing font files with FontForge
Creating infographics