Turn your ideas into animated projects.
Have you ever wanted to animate logos, create motion graphics, or bring your visual, pictorial, or photographic ideas to life? Do you want to create animated content to enhance your online presence, strengthen your brand, or communicate more creatively? The Adobe® After Effects – Character Animation Course is the foundation that guides you, step by step, into the world of digital animation with Adobe After Effects — the essential tool for anyone who wants to start producing motion graphics professionally.
Designed for those who want to make a real leap in quality, the Winter Course is a complete and intensive 10-Saturday program. Perfect for beginners who want to immediately acquire professional methods, tools, and techniques, the course will enable you to master After Effects consciously — from managing compositions to advanced text animation, through puppet tools, expressions, 3D work, cameras, lights, and much more.
At the end of the course, participants will receive a certificate of attendance, provided they attend at least 12 of the 15 scheduled lessons, for possible recognition of 2 CFU credits.
Course type: group – in-person
Participants: Max 15, Min 6
Attendance: weekly, on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Duration: 10 lessons – total 40 hours
Cost: €590.00 in one payment or two installments of €300.00
Materials: notebook; work is done on Mac with Adobe Suite in class
Requirements/support: none
Language: Italian
Lecturer: Sergio D’Innocenzo
Location: RUFA – Via degli Ausoni 7
Registration opening: October 15, 2025
Registration closing: January 9, 2026
At the end of the course, each student will create a short animation applying the techniques learned. A solid and structured educational experience to start creating complex and polished animated content, ready for the world of design, communication, or social media. Below is an overview of the daily topics:
01 – Introduction to the Interface
02 – Composition, input, output, preferences
03 – Animating objects, keyframes, motion path, graph editor
04 – Parenting, tracking, masks, mattes
05 – Puppet animation
06 – Most used filters and effects
07 – Working with 3D
08 – Cameras, lights, materials
09 – Expressions
10 – Advanced text animation
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After attending Art High School, he began his first professional experiences in the world of comics and illustration, producing – among other works – a 25-page color story of Radar, superhero from the Phoenix universe, scripted by Giorgio Lavagna, and a full illustration cycle for the role-playing game Lex Arcana published by Dal Negro.
His career then continued in the field of graphic design and advertising communication: between the late 1980s and 2006 he was Creative Director of Plan B Communication, a studio he co-founded, collaborating with major clients such as Capitalia, Poste Italiane, ANSA, and Confindustria.
In the early 2000s, he approached the world of 3D graphics, attending training courses in Italy and the UK and progressively integrating CGI into his projects. In 2008 he attended a character animation course at Escape Studios in London, an experience that sparked a genuine passion for animation and led him to design a training course for young industry talents.
Shortly thereafter, he began a four-year collaboration with the French studio TeamTO, working on successful TV series such as PJ Masks, Angelo Rules, and The New Adventures of Babar, also contributing to feature films such as Yellowbird. Since then, he has collaborated with numerous international studios and productions, including Gladiators of Rome (Rainbow CGI), The Jungle Book (MPC), Zombillenium (Pipangai), Trash (AL/1), and Ricky Zoom (Maga Animation), consolidating a professional career that combines illustration, graphic design, and animation with creativity and versatility.
RUFA Students and Alumni: 50%
Former RUFA Short Courses and Summer Courses students 2023–24: 10%
University Students: 5% (upon presentation of student ID).
Course package / groups / family: contact corsibrevi@unirufa.it