How to Animate in After Effects

Overview

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Master After Effects animation techniques through three hands-on projects in this comprehensive 3.5-hour course. Learn keyframe animation fundamentals, text reveals using masks and shape layers, and how to animate logos. Create a burger restaurant logo animation, design a futuristic animated logo reveal, and bring a chic text design to life with a write-on effect. Explore keyframe animation, text reveals, and After Effects expressions to produce complex, subtle movements. Gain practical skills in preparing artwork, animating various elements, and crafting impressive text animations. By the end, confidently create professional-quality motion graphics and text animations in After Effects.

Syllabus

1 .1 Introduction.
2.1 Keyframe Basics.
2.2 Reveal Text With Masks and Layers.
2.3 Basic Text Box Reveal.
2.4 Bounding Box Reveal.
2.5 Text Reveal Rectangles-Part1.
2.6 Text Reveal Rectangles - Part2.
3.1 Burger Logo - Prepare the Artwork.
3.2 Burger Logo - Animate the Layers.
3.3 Burger Logo- Final Touches.
4.1 Outer Space - Animate With CC Lens.
4.2 Outer Space - animating Strokes & Glow Effects.
4.3 Outer Space - Lens Flares.
4.4 Outer Space - Noise & Grain.
5.1 Boutique Text - Prepare the Artwork.
5.2 Boutique Text - Create the Layout.
5.3 Boutique Text - Inertial Bounce Expression.
5.4 Boutique Text - Wiggle Expression.
5.5 Boutque Text - Layer Control.
5.6 Boutique Text - Handwitten Text.
5.7 Boutique Text - Final Touches.
6.1 Conclusion.