[Digital Tutors] After Effects Expressions Made Easy (2012)

In this After Effects tutorial we will demystify expressions and make them easy. This course is for the After Effects artist that thinks expressions are scary math wizardry that is too complicated to understand. In reality you do many expression-like things every time you use After Effects, and if you can use the pick whip to parent two layers together you can create expressions with the best of them. The goal of this course is to get you comfortable with creating and reading expressions.

Lesson 1
Introduction and project overview

Lesson 2
Expressions do not have to be scary math, coding or scripting

Lesson 3
Pick whip parenting and expressions

Lesson 4
Modifying our expressions values with hard-coded values

Lesson 5
Adding and connecting expression control effects for fast edits

Lesson 6
Accessing information about other layers in expressions

Lesson 7
Using information from After Effects in expressions

Lesson 8
Getting properties from the Expression Language menu

Lesson 9
Using our current values or keyframes to drive expressions

Lesson 10
Adding random movement with the Wiggle expression

Lesson 11
Repeating animation with various loop expressions

Lesson 12
Working with multi-value array properties like position

Lesson 13
Saving an expression and its controls in an animation preset

Lesson 14
Using variables to store information and write cleaner expressions

Lesson 15
Precomping our expressions layers and creating copies

Lesson 16
Building a versatile 3D Layer controller with expressions