What fields thats AE is the most powerful to use??

#1

and if you have time please tell me what programmes should i use beside AE.
I use 3ds max, maya.

#2

Changing the question won’t really change the answer. It’s still a very generic question. After Effects is a flexible tool with many uses. A better question would be to ask “I need to do this specific thing for a project, can After Effects help me with this?”

As for what to use alongside After Effects. Here’s another generic answer. You can use pretty much anything you want. It depends on what you’re trying to do.

#3

This is my situation… I am in the learning process and collecting tools, Applications that i will work with i started with max then i found alot of jobs requiring AE beside max then i learned AE , after while i heared that there is some applications stronger than AE …
and this all, so i wanted to know this applications to see if it will make differnces for my career opportunity or what …
I just need some guide lines of these applications in order to decide if i will learn some thing beside AE or just it…
and please dont close my thread because you didnot get what i want… maybe somebody else will get my point.

#4

If you’re looking for general knowledge, then skills you gain in one application may help you in any application. Learning how to model properly in 3D max will give you a head start on knowing how to model in Maya. Knowing how to UV Map, Texture etc are all skills that are necessary regardless of the application you use. This is also true with effects, compositing, and titling software. Though the programs will implement things in different ways, the relative ideas will be the same. Blending modes, Color correction, how to key, the order things need to be layered and composited etc will be fairly unilateral.

So again, if you’re looking for general knowledge in compositing to learn things you can apply in a design field, then After Effects or any other compositing program will help you. The major difference between After Effects and other software is that it works with layers like photoshop, not with nodes like Nuke or Inferno.

The important thing is to know the field and the companies you want to work for. It’s good to try and understand what tools they use, so you can cater your skills to them. It might be worth doing research to see what kind of firms you want to end up working for, and see what they use to get their job done.

After Effects is a usefull tool for Compositing, Keying, Titling, motion design, color correction, simple motion tracking and a range of other uses. If that is what you want experience in, then it can’t hurt to know it. However, the point of needing to know what to focus on is essential. If you are going out looking to learn every single peice of software, you are going to know them all very poorly. Not to mention it will cost you an arm and a leg to afford them all. Thankfully, after effects is one of the cheaper programs out there in the professional world.

Punchline is to find your focus. Know what specific uses you need the software for, and what the studios in your area use and need.

I started learning after effects not knowing what the studios in my area used for sure. I heard rumours that the guys I wanted to work for were using inferno, but when I started my internships and got a foot in the door, I got lucky and it turned out they were using After Effects. Still, if they had ended up using inferno, I simply would have found a way to get some instruction to use the interface. I would still be able to apply the knowledge I already had, i’d just need to learn what buttons to push. In the end it’s how good your reel looks, and it’s not likely the viewer will know what you used to make it unless you tell them. If they see good technique in your reel, you stand a good chance at getting hired no matter what you used to make the reel with. Just cater to their needs.

#5

Thanks alot Iaenic , actually it was a great words and were just what i expected but i wanted to hear it from somebody who works in the field.
and i guess i will just work with AE for now.
Thanks again…

#6

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