2010
Digital Tutors
Chris Glick
3h1m
English
In this After Effects tutorial we'll learn a variety of techniques to create appealing logo animations. Taking a logo or image and animating it is a common task. We'll begin the tutorial by importing a logo built in illustrator and organize our layers into compositions. We'll then learn some animation techniques to take what would be boring motion and give it some life. We'll then learn how to accurately gauge perspective and how to place the anchor point. Throughout the project we will create animation presets that will save us time on repetitive tasks. We'll learn techniques to reveal and grow elements from simple mask expansions to complex path strokes and mask animation.
1. Introduction and Project Overview
2. Organizing our project and working with vector images
3. Animating the text entrance using a moving hold
4. Animating the Arcade Group to have arcing motion
5. Finding the correct Anchor Point position using perspective
6. Using Animation Presets to quickly animate multiple elements
7. Animating other elements using our animation preset
8. Using Masking and Expressions to keep the TV antennas moving
9. Changing the default mask color in the user preferences file
10. Fixing the timing and animating the background
11. Animating the Ink Splots using the Anchor Point and scale
12. Using Masks and motion blur to add the large paint splats
13. Animating a realistic paint hit
14. Using our Mask animation techniques to animate growth
15. Using a Stroke effect to grow our plant elements
16. Creating a multi-grow effect with layering and many masks
17. Growing a complex multi-limb object using strokes
18. Revealing an object that crosses over itself using strokes and masks
19. Combining techniques to grow a multi-limb self-crossing element
20. Using Strokes and Paths to grow a complex object
21. Growing the main limb and leaves of the ornate element
22. Adding additional growth layers to the ornate element
23. Finishing the growing of the ornate elements limbs
24. Animating the top circles to move together
25. Timing the growing layers to work with the entire logo
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