After Effects Guru: Animating Typography

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Understanding the Emotions of Animation

• Dissecting high-energy animation
• Exploring clean animation techniques
• Understanding the anatomy of accents and highlights

2. Essential Aesthetic and Technical Principles

• Choosing type for legibility
• Understanding read times and screen position
• Creating visual hierarchy for faster understanding
• Cleaning up type-heavy graphics
• Animating colors for legibility

3. Working with Text Animation Presets

• Working with existing presets (and visually browsing)
• Customizing and retiming an animation
• Building animation properties from scratch
• Refining the animation

4. Creating High-Energy Animation

• Creating controlled chaos with type animators
• Animating cameras for dynamic simulation
• Building glows, blurs, and highlights
• Building tension

5. Creating Clean, Simple, and Smooth animation

• Creating subtle accents with duplicate layers
• Creating smooth camera animation
• Enhancing with textures and CINEMA 4D Lite

6. Animating Multiple Lines of Type

• Building a detailed credit roll
• Accenting key words
• Multiline dynamic moves with cameras and type animators
• Using multiple animators and refining your animation

Conclusion

• Wrapping up