Welcome to Total Training for Adobe After Effects CS3 Essentials. My name is Co Mariama, and I am a Lead Animator in Los Angeles California. Throughout my experience I have found that After Effects is used just about everywhere motion video is produced. I worked in Television broadcast studios, film studios, and small team workshops. I have used After Effects to create production content, commercial and promo animations, and even feature titles. After Effects is an extensive program offering levels upon levels of control. It can be a daunting task to learn the application, especially if you have never checked it before.

Allow me to show you the way. In this Essential series, I will be your guide to many of the basic features you will need to get your animation started. We'll start out with a very simple title animation. Now we are not going to break down each feature that we us in this first overview. There will be plenty of time for that later. Right now we are just going to have a little bit of fun. So sit back, relax while I will give you glimpse of just some of the amazing things that you can do in After Effects CS3.

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