2014
Digital Tutors
Laura Smith
06:00:00
English
In this series of tutorials, we will go through the steps from start to finish for creating a video that explains a hard to understand topic.
Often times people turn to motion graphics to explain difficult topics and it can be a challenge for motion designers to know how to get started and how to create videos like this. We will go through the process of analyzing the script to choose what assets to create and how they should work. We then bring those assets into After Effects and approach creating the video step by step, ensuring that we explain the topic as easily as possible using a contrast of motion and pauses.
We also learn how to speed up your workflow by creating animation presets and some keyboard shortcuts that make working in After Effects much quicker. We learn lots of tricks for smoothing your animations out and we find some unconventional uses for effects that you may have used before, but never like this.
This training is for you if you want to make beautiful motion graphics pieces that require a lot of design consideration for the flow of an explanation.
1. Introduction and project overview
01:11
2. Discussing the script and creating an asset list
08:43
3. Splitting your vector assets for easy import to After Effects
07:01
4. Choosing your project settings and importing into After Effects
05:09
5. Animating the banner using CC Page Turn
08:04
6. Troubleshooting motion blur for the CC Page Turn effect
04:45
7. Creating an animation preset for the letters
09:47
8. Adding the sub-header
05:16
9. Precomposing the title and creating the transition
08:42
10. Creating the energy path and adding looping
07:43
11. Duplicating the energy
05:19
12. Creating a pulsing loop for the star
07:35
13. Finishing the pointer animation
09:11
14. Creating a mask reveal for the dashed circle
05:29
15. Adding the text
08:15
16. Placing and animating more text
07:22
17. Introducing the gravity ring
05:17
18. Exiting the pointer and transitioning to the star death phase
06:33
19. Creating the star death phase
08:40
20. Adding large blocks of text
08:57
21. Perfecting the speed of the text reveal
07:09
22. Creating a particle explosion
08:42
23. Prerendering a composition
08:21
24. Shrinking the particles with a mask
06:46
25. Introducing the supernova
07:57
26. Using Wiggle Paths
03:43
27. Adding the supernova label
06:35
28. Making room and adding story text
08:30
29. Creating and reusing animations
09:54
30. Adding the black hole graphic
07:33
31. Working the black hole text into the transition
07:21
32. Using Liquify to make a transition
07:49
33. Adding the black hole label
02:39
34. Reusing pointers for continuity
06:42
35. Using masking for text reveals
09:18
36. Changing the view of the black hole
07:37
37. Finishing the path adjustments
09:01
38. Rigging a simple 2D character using parenting
07:03
39. Animating the path of the hose
03:09
40. Introducing the astronaut
06:59
41. Finishing the astronaut's path
08:41
42. Explaining the astronaut's fate using our script
06:50
43. Practicing the path animation technique
08:39
44. Perfecting the paths and timing of the secondary assets
07:16
45. Animating the limbs of the astronaut
08:42
46. Animating the parts of the secondary assets
09:05
47. Taking the black hole back to a top view
03:43
48. Transitioning to the end
05:18
49. Finishing touches and edits
09:40
50. Rendering to a sequence and compressing to playback format
07:40
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