{"id":62178,"date":"2015-09-03T10:09:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T15:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=62178"},"modified":"2015-09-03T11:25:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T16:25:42","slug":"learn-from-the-pros-reverse-engineer-an-after-effects-template","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/learn-from-the-pros-reverse-engineer-an-after-effects-template\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn From the Pros: Reverse Engineer an After Effects Template"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re looking to improve your After Effects abilities, an easy way to learn is to break down an After Effects Template.<\/h2>\n

Whether\u00a0you are learning After Effects for the first time,<\/strong> or an experienced user trying to improve your skills, one way to learn from other professional motion graphics artists<\/strong> is to break down their work and see how they’re making the magic happen. Now, you can do this with a keen eye and a lot of experimentation as you try to mimic reference material \u2014 such as a cool trailer, title sequence or animation \u2014 but you still need to know what you’re doing in order to recreate their techniques.<\/p>\n

An easier way is to simply buy a copy of their work and open up their After Effects project file and see exactly how they did it.<\/strong> How can you do this? Through sites like RocketStock.com<\/a><\/strong>, where you can get free and paid After Effects templates like the one below.<\/p>\n