Digital Tutors - Building Stunning Style Frames in After Effects

In this series of After Effects tutorials, we will learn about the process as well as some creation techniques for building great style frames!

We begin by discussing what a styleframe actually is and how it can help you in your workflow and process for beginning a motion graphics project then carrying it through to the end. Styleframes are great for communicating your ideas and giving yourself a tangible road map that acts as a guide once you start animating. This course is perfect for anyone wanting to learn more about how to execute your ideas, just as you originally envisioned them. It's definitely the course for you, if you're creating your motion graphics in After Effects, because we go through some really valuable techniques for executing consistency with nested comps.

Building Stunning Style Frames in After Effects contents:

1. Introduction and project overview

2. Understanding style frames

3. Getting started with creating style frames

4. Gathering and creating assets

5. Creating the Zombie title opener in Illustrator

6. Creating the Alien title opener in Illustrator

7. Creating an abstract zombie texture in Illustrator

8. Bringing assets together in Photoshop

9. Unifying colors in Photoshop

10. Relighting our shot in Photoshop

11. Finishing the photo manipulation in Photoshop

12. Importing assets and organizing in After Effects

13. Creating the first style frame in After Effects

14. Adding effects to the first style frame

15. Reusing and replacing comps to create an additional style frame

16. Creating more frames with unified shapes and colors

17. Reusing a compositions contents with footage to create additional frames

18. Creating the closing style frame

19. Rendering using the "Save Frame As" option in After Effects

20. Creating compositions with all the style frames in Photoshop