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School of Motion:
After Effects Kickstart

A selection of my favorite projects from the After Effects Kickstart course. All designs were created by various artists, with School of Motion collaborating to develop the assets and artboards. This provided a clear vision for the animations. All animation was done by me.

Assignment

No copilot

A song-based animation about After Effects. For this assignment, we created a 25-second animation set to music. I chose the more advanced version of the project, working with over 400 layers in After Effects. The main focus was on building smooth transitions between scenes.

Artboards to animate

No Copilot — Yeah I've Got a Matte you can Track No Copilot — Key Frames are on the Attack No Copilot — You Need a Precomp to Handle No Copilot — All of the Layers I Stack No Copilot — I'm Animating on Twos No Copilot — You Know I Render in Queues No Copilot — And Color Code All of My Layers No Copilot — So Nobody's Confused No Copilot — Watch That Timeline Shine No Copilot — I'm Making Motion Design No Copilot — No Copilot I'm Flying Solo No Copilot — Cause All of My Plugins Are Fine
Assignment

A week to remember

A paper collage animation inspired by stop-motion. This project explores animating at a lower frame rate to recreate a handcrafted, tactile feel.

Designed by Nol Honing.

Artboards to animate

A Week to Remember — Title A Week to Remember — Monday A Week to Remember — Tuesday A Week to Remember — Wednesday A Week to Remember — Thursday A Week to Remember — Friday A Week to Remember — Saturday A Week to Remember — Sunday
Assignment

The final countdown

A countdown animation. This assignment focused on combining everything learned throughout the course, with an emphasis on creating smooth and seamless transitions.

Assignment

WOW Factory

An animation featuring four robots creating keyframes. This assignment focused on learning how to build and animate IK rigs in After Effects.

Certificate

Course Completed

After Effects Kickstart Certificate — Robin van der Wal
Disclaimer

This work was created as homework assignments for the After Effects Kickstart course from School of Motion, Inc. The original concept and artboards for each project were provided by School of Motion as part of the curriculum.

All designs were created by various artists. School of Motion collaborated with these artists to develop all the assets and artboards.

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