Learn Non-Scary Adobe After Effects: Parenting & Tracking

Course Overview

Ready to make your animations interact with live footage? In this second course, Tim Wilson shows you how to bring your After Effects skills into the world of motion tracking, parenting, and dynamic effects. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to: * Track moving objects and attach graphics or text that follow motion naturally * Use null objects and parenting to create complex, coordinated animations * Apply creative effects like pulsing shapes, animated lines, and text reveals * Work with time adjustments such as slow motion, reverse motion, and time remapping You’ll complete hands-on projects like tracking a car and overlaying animated graphics or designing planet-and-rocket sequences. This course is ideal for intermediate users who want to give their animations a polished, integrated feel that matches real-world footage. Basic familiarity with keyframes, layer structure, and text animation is recommended. With Tim’s clear, step-by-step teaching style, you’ll confidently blend motion graphics into live-action scenes for stunning results.