Free After Effects Project: Beginner to Pro Guide (Thomas Woodcock)
Original title: How To Use After Effects: Beginner to Pro Full 2025 Guide
Overview
Thomas Woodcock's one-hour beginner-to-pro After Effects course comes with this free project file. It covers compositions, keyframes, staggered shape motion, a bouncing ball, text with track mattes, CC Light Sweep, gradients, easy ease and the speed graph, masks, pre-composing and exporting, all with native tools and no plugins.
The Google Drive folder contains the course's animations.aep so you can open every exercise as it appears in the video; the download is free with no signup and no version is stated. Ideal for absolute beginners who want a guided tour of the fundamentals in one project.
What You Can Learn
- Staggered shape motion and a bouncing ball exercise
- Text reveals with track mattes and CC Light Sweep
- Easy ease and the speed graph for smoother motion
- Masks, pre-composing and exporting basics
Access: Free direct download
