Transform your ideas into animated projects.
The intensive Adobe® After Effects course offered by RUFA is aimed at those who wish to create motion graphics and special effects while meeting the professional standards of video production.
Integration with other Adobe Creative Suite software ensures perfect compatibility both with Illustrator vector graphics and with more complex bitmap effects (such as layer styles and Photoshop video layers). During the course, you will learn to master the software and process a video through text animations, vector graphics (created directly with After Effects, Adobe Flash or Adobe Premiere), bitmap graphics (images and effects from Adobe Photoshop) and audio (with Adobe Soundbooth).
Students will have hundreds of possibilities and presets available to create fully controllable animations and special effects, for instance by masking part of the video and/or using the ‘Puppet’ tool to manoeuvre the created effects with ease and precision.
At the end of the course, a certificate of attendance is issued, subject to participation in a minimum of 25 hours, for the possible recognition of 2 ECTS credits.
Course type: Professional and Personalised
Participation mode: In person or Online
Course start/end: to be agreed with the lecturer
Days and times: to be agreed with the lecturer
Duration: Individual basic course of 25 hours or personalised lessons starting from 12 hours
Cost: 45 euros per hour
Language: Italian
Lecturer: Harald Pizzinini
Objectives
Learn the principles of video production to create motion graphics and special effects in line with professional standards.
Course programme
1. Explanation of the After Effects interface:
Timeline, composition window, project window, preview window, tools bar, toolbar
2. Importing various video and static formats and layer properties in the timeline
3. Basic layer animations (opacity, position, scale, rotation, etc.)
4. Creating masks for roto-scoping and animating masks
5. Tracking and arranging layers in a 3D environment
6. Creating special effects and analysis of export formats
The calendar below is indicative.
For individual courses, the lesson schedule is arranged directly with the lecturer, according to mutual availability.
1. Saturday 10 January 2026
2. Saturday 17 January 2026
3. Saturday 24 January 2026
4. Saturday 31 January 2026
5. Saturday 7 February 2026
6. Saturday 14 February 2026
7. Saturday 21 February 2026
8. Saturday 28 February 2026
9. Saturday 7 March 2026
10. Saturday 14 March 2026
11. Saturday 21 March 2026
12. Saturday 28 March 2026
RUFA Students and Alumni: 50%
Former RUFA Short Courses and RUFA Summer Courses students: 10%
University Students: 5% (upon presentation of university ID).
Course packages/groups/family: contact corsibrevi@unirufa.it