Tutorial 2 (Part 2): Icon Animations - The Essential 5% of After Effects
0:10: Animating the Lock
11:15: Animating the Shopping Cart
50:59: Animation Wrap-Up / Next Steps
Tutorial 1 - The Graph Editor: • Tutorial 1: The Graph Editor -- The Essent...
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Welcome to my tutorial series ‘The Essential 5% of After Effects’. If you’re in any creative industry and want to add motion design to your skillset, you only need to learn 5% of After Effects to be able to do 90% of what’s needed on a daily basis. This series is for beginner users of After Effects, but the tools, features, and concepts shown in this series could be useful for any user at any level. I’ve been a motion designer for 15 years and I didn’t start using the Graph Editor until 10 years ago.
In this tutorial, we'll dig deeper into animation in After Effects with a project-based approach: animating icons.
Icons are a major part of motion design and this project will be an essential example of the foundational aspects of animating in After Effects. In this tutorial - which spans 3 different videos - we'll use key features such as: anchor points, masks, track mattes, parenting, and the all-important Adobe Illustrator-to-After Effects workflow.
This first video covers the project, prepping files from Illustrator, importing into After Effects, and animating the Hand icon, and the Bell Icon.
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In this video, we're going to be learning how to create icon animations with After Effects. This is an essential skill for any motion designer, and will give your projects a unique look and feel.
In this tutorial, we'll be using the Essential 5% of After Effects: Icon Animations. This is a core skill that every motion designer should know, and will help you to stand out from the crowd. After watching this video, you'll be ready to create your own icon animations in After Effects!