Animating Logos with After Effects

Prepare artwork by separating elements into individual layers in Illustrator, then import into After Effects as a composition with retain layer sizes to enable independent animation.

Organize your After Effects project by pre-composing layers into named groups (lama, drama, color, head) to streamline animation. Ensure layers maintain quality when scaling and prepare Illustrator imports for practice.

Learn to animate the bell in After Effects by turning vector elements into shape layers, adjusting the anchor point, and keyframing position and rotation with easy ease and motion blur.

Animate a logo collar in After Effects using trim paths, stroke adjustments, and color transitions from pink to purple with masking and fill effects.

Animate a llama's head and face in After Effects by using shape layers, parenting to the head, and position keyframes for a smooth parallax motion.

Animate an eye blink and eyelash movement for a llama in After Effects by keyframing the eye path, refining lashes, and using stroke taper and easy ease for realism.

Create a pupil mask synced to the eye using a duplicated left eye mask and path parenting, so the pupil stays inside the eye while animating its position with keyframes.

Animate the hair in After Effects by setting path keyframes, adjusting positions with a subtle bounce, offsetting frames for flow, and masking to reveal color for a smooth, organic look.

Refine and smooth the llama animation in After Effects by adjusting head movement and ears, and smoothing keyframes in the graph editor for a more natural look.

Animate text in After Effects by keyframing position, scale, and rotation, refine motion with the graph editor and F9 ease, and use masks to reveal llama and drama.

Animate the llama in after effects by adding keyframes for blinking, eye movement, and text reveal; adjust pupils with hold keyframes and refine position to look left as text appears.

Learn to animate a llama logo in After Effects by crafting keyframes for the head, eyes, nose, mouth, and tongue, using masks, alpha mattes, and parenting.

Learn to build a looping llama animation in After Effects by animating the head, eyes, tongue, and facial features with keyframes, masks, and path adjustments for a smooth, cartoony loop.

Animate text and logo exits in After Effects by applying keyframes for position, scale, rotation, and color with trim paths and masks, then fine-tune timing for a polished exit.

Design and rebuild icon shapes for morphing logo animations in After Effects, using Illustrator strokes, importing as composition, and creating clean shapes for smooth transformation into the final logo.

Animate a logo icon by creating and centering a dot, keyframing its position and scale with easy ease, and converting shapes to bezier paths for dynamic shape changes and lines.

Learn how to morph icons in after effects by breaking icons into simple shapes, leveraging trim paths for motion lines, and transforming lines into squares through a logic-based, shape-overlap approach.

Morph icon 1 into icon 2 in After Effects. Use a reference, adjust opacity, anchor points, and rotate the base while keyframing path and shape changes with timing.

In After Effects, transform a line into a square icon by isolating and renaming layers, creating rounded squares, and animating position and scale with keyframes and ease for synchronized timing.

Animate two lines and a row of squares in After Effects by adjusting position keyframes and offset timing, then apply motion blur and a masked square stroke with trim paths.

Add motion effects to an icon by drawing a line with the pen tool, applying trim paths, and refining a morphing animation through duplicate, rotate, and offset layers.

Transform icons by turning shared squares and lines into circles, rotate the shapes, and animate a line into a curved form that appears from the bottom.

Animate an icon in After Effects by rotating a square null and applying a breathing pulse with keyframes and motion blur.

Animate a logo icon in After Effects by keyframing the path and stroke, adjusting offset and trim for a popping line and sequential circles.

Finish the animation by replacing the white line with a new overlapped line, applying a brown stroke, and refining timing, masking, and bounce keyframes to reveal the logo.

Develop ideas and design the final icon by transforming a square into the target shape, using shape layers, masks, strokes, and precise scaling in After Effects.

Animate a morphing logo in After Effects using trim paths, keyframes, and rotation to transform a square into a new icon. Improve timing, positioning, anchor adjustments, masking, and color changes.

Animate a logo reveal in After Effects by building a precomposition, masking a circle, and using wave warp and color transitions to reveal the logo and title.

Finish the After Effects logo animation by refining position, rotation, scale, and trim paths, revealing the icon with a white drop while syncing background and stroke color changes.

Organize your typography animation by placing each letter on its own layer and converting vector files to shapes. Add a gradient background, fill letters, and set a five-second composition.

Animate the letter k by splitting it into three parts on separate layers, then use the pen tool to create shapes and apply trim paths with keyframes and strokes.

Animate the letter K by setting anchor points, keyframing position, rotation, scale, and path, then refine with easy ease and the graph editor for smooth motion.

Animate the letter K in After Effects by adjusting anchor point and animating position, scale, rotation, and path with keyframes, easy ease, and graph editor refinements.

Animate the letter A in After Effects by splitting it into two parts, building paths with dots, and using trim paths, keyframes, and overlapping timing for a smooth motion.

Animate the letter s using the trim paths effect, strokes, and fills, duplicating layers, adjusting offset and timing with keyframes, and refining color shifts for a polished reveal.

Animate the letter H in After Effects by forming two line parts with trim paths and masking, then animate with keyframes, anchor points, and easing to reveal color changes.

Animate the letter U by adjusting position, scale, and rotation with easy ease keyframes, refine timing with the position and speed graphs, duplicate layers, then finalize with color changes.

Finish your logo animation in After Effects by creating curved strokes with trim paths, applying easy ease, duplicating colored strokes, and animating circles for a polished typography reveal.

Render your After Effects projects with two methods: direct render in After Effects or export via Media Encoder, producing mp4 or gif in the background.

Define the logo animation goal and usage, sketch and storyboard ideas, and identify transition points to convey the brand message, then animate with shown techniques.

We celebrate your completion of all lessons and invite you to download the project files, as this course gives you confidence to apply what you learned and keep animating.