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After Effects Guru: Animating Logos

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Combine the powers of Photoshop, After Effects, and Illustrator to make polished logo animations for yourself and your clients.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
  • What you should know before watching this course
1. Optimizing Logos for Video
  • Defining preferred file formats
  • Synchronizing colors across the Adobe Creative Suite
  • Resizing bitmap logos in Photoshop
  • Resizing for speed with vectors
2. Animating the Citrus Logo
  • Optimizing layers for animation in After Effects
  • Repeating animation with the Keyframe Assistant
  • Animating with colors
  • Stylizing with texture
  • Finalizing the reveal
3. Animating Type Logos
  • Figuring out which fonts have been used
  • Creating animation without the font
  • Multi-element animation techniques
  • Building and saving transitional elements
4. Finishing Quickly
  • Formatting animated logo bugs
  • Delivering animation with transparency
Conclusion
  • Wrapping up

Taught by

Ian Robinson

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