Location

Community Services & Continuing Education - Alexandria

Objectives

• • Learning how to use Adobe Photoshop to design and edit images.• Learning how to use Adobe Illustrator to draw images and prepare files for animation.• Learning how to use the various tools and features in Adobe After Effects to create animation. • Knowing how to add sounds to video characters using the AI tools.

Outcomes

• Acquiring designing and animation skills.• Developing the student’s artistic and imaginative sense through the various course projects.• Learning how to create a short cartoon movie.• Learning how to design and animate the movie elements and backgrounds.• Learning how to animate characters, animals and birds.• Knowing how to create a movie intro.• Knowing how to use audio and visual effects.• Knowing how to add music to a movie and control it.• Knowing how to use AI tools.• Learning how to design a cartoon movie poster.

Course Contents

Adobe Photoshop• Introducing what Adobe Photoshop is and what it is used for.• Knowing how to create new documents for print and web and how to save them.• Learning how to work with selection, painting, typing, drawing, cropping, zooming and navigation tools. • Understanding what layers are and knowing how to work with them.• Knowing how to transform images using Free transform and Transform commands.• Knowing how to use Clipping Mask command.• Knowing how to work with layer effects and styles.Adobe Illustrator• Knowing how to create and save documents for motion.• Knowing how to work with artboards.• Learning how to work with selection, drawing, painting, typing, zooming and navigation tools.• Working with layers.• Knowing how to align and distribute objects and change the stacking order of them.• Working with solid colors, gradients and patterns.• Knowing how to use Image Trace command to convert bitmap images to vector images.Adobe After Effects• Understanding how