LEARN THE BASICS OF ANIMATION IN AFTER EFFECTS! | Get started animating objects and artwork in After Effects today with this simple tutorial on keyframing, tweening, and easing in Adobe After Effects.
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In this After Effects tutorial, we’ll learn all about how to create simple animations en route to creating a really neat icon sliding in animation effect that you’re sure to love. I cover keyframes, speed up/slowing down animation, moving and adding keyframes, selecting keyframes, building animation using the Transform parameters of any given layer, the powerful easing tools, and much more in this beginner’s mini-guide to animation in After Effects.
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Tutorial Recording Notes:
Disclaimer: these are the actual notes I used to record this video and are written in a language you may or may not understand. Hopefully, you find them useful or cool.
- Add keyframes & animate
- Move keyframes
- Move to next keyframes
- Add a third keyframe
- Ease animation
- Scale animate the icon base into place with a *bump*
- Use mask consisting of stroke to uncover the angled gradient
- Animate in the check mark
- Create the artwork in Illustrator
- Import layers into AE
- Sort the basic animation
- Animate the zoom icon base in (SCALE)
- Animate in the shadow (OPACITY)
- Animate the Trim Paths to unveil the circle stripe of gradient (SCALE & ROTATE 1x)
- Animate zoom in the check mark (SCALE)
- Use the Graph Editor to add the animation bump at the end of the animation
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