Mastering Apple (UI) Animations with Adobe After Effects Course

Create smooth, Apple-inspired UI animations that captivate audiences and enhance engagement on social media.

This course teaches you how to go from Figma and Illustrator to After Effects, crafting Apple-like (UI) animations used by top creators like Dave, Seltix, Ali Abdaal, fern and more. You’ll learn how to create high-retention animations that keep viewers watching longer—whether for videos or shorts.

Introduction - What You’ll Learn

What we are going to build
Tools we'll use: Figma, Illustrator, Blender, Plasticity
Plugins we'll use: Overlord 2, Deep Glow, Quick Aberration and more
Alternative methods if you don’t have specific plugins

🎥 What we are going to build (5 mins)

🎥 Tools and Plugins (and alternatives) (19 mins)

⤵️ Course Resources.zip (70.8 MB)

Screen 1

Bringing Illustrator-generated designs into After Effects and creating seamless motion with paths and texts

Animating along a path
Lens distortion for a special look
Turbulence displacement, glow effects, and layer styles
Working with Illustrator files in After Effects (release to sequence, text import tricks)
Keyframing Deep Glow, adding Bevel & Emboss and Noise for details

🎥 Screen 1: Illustrator to After Effects, Path and Text Animations & Effects (37 mins)

Screen 2

Building smooth UI animations from Figma assets

Importing and organizing Figma layers in After Effects
Creating smooth icon animations with motion curves
Masking techniques for advanced reveals and interactions
Using motion curves from Plugins for polished motion
Where to get UI components
Animating Animojis

🎥 Screen 2: Figma to After Effects, Icon Animation & Complex Masking (49 mins)

Screen 3

How to incorporate 3D elements into animations

Using Blender/Plasticity to create 3D elements
How to bevel in Blender for more interesting objects
Blur shape color trick for more colors
After Effects' Advanced 3D Renderer and its quirks

🎥 Screen 3: Blender/Plasticity to After Effects (3D Animations) (19 mins)

Screen 4

Bringing 3D objects into After Effects for seamless integration

Designing a coin in Blender/Plasticity
Importing 3D models into After Effects with proper lighting
Advanced app icon animation techniques
3D camera animation

🎥 Screen 4 - Coin Creation, App Icon Animation, 3D Camera (50 mins)

Screen 5

Transforming flat UI designs into 3D-looking animations

Creating a 3D app effect using 2D layers
Depth, parallax motion
Little bit of "scripting"
Special effects to enhance UI screen details

🎥 Screen 5: Figma to After Effects, 3D App Animation (41 mins)

Transitions

Mastering smooth, high-end transitions

Using a plugin for transitions
How transition plugins work
Building our own transitions for your unique style

🎥 Combining the animations (transitions) (21 mins)

Sound Design

How to enhance motion graphics with the right sound

Choosing the right sound effects for UI animations
Layering audio for impact and rhythm

🎥 Sound Design in Premiere Pro (17 mins)

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