Create Animations with Shapes and Gradients in After Effects

Explore concept and sketching to outline a pattern animation, sketching in Photoshop to establish perspective with triangles and streaks moving in z space before After Effects.

Create a new After Effects composition with 16 by 9 aspect ratio, 23.976 fps, square pixels, and a black background, then tailor a personal workspace.

Explore shape layers in After Effects and learn to transform individual shapes, animate paths with keyframes, and control stroke, fill, and gradients for dynamic visuals.

Create animations in After Effects using shapes and gradients, aligning with rulers, guides, and a proportional grid. Use a repeater to duplicate shapes, then animate scale and opacity with keyframes.

Create a pattern using a grid and markers, duplicate shapes, and apply a repeater to generate copies; animate scale and opacity with keyframes and ease the motion.

Edit and duplicate shape layers in After Effects, align to the grid, rotate 180 degrees, and use a repeater to create a repeating abstract pattern with keyframes guiding the scale.

Explore the grid and shape layers, use the pen tool to create shapes, and animate paths from a center point for a cohesive look.

learn to animate multiple paths by manually adjusting vertex points, keyframing with stopwatch, and offsetting paths for subtle motion; use shortcuts like G, V, and repeaters to accelerate the process.

Explore creating vibrant gradients with gradient overlay in after effects, customizing colors from red to blue, adding turbulence displacement, glow, blur, and masks to reveal layered shapes with soft edges.

Create a subtle star background in After Effects by using turbulent noise, inverting, boosting contrast, lowering brightness, and adding a soft blur, then refine with fractal noise and blue color.

Explore how shaped layers and the pattern repeater create a striking pattern, while turbulent and fractal noise add a starry background and edge displacement in After Effects.

Create a dynamic animated background in After Effects by building multiple 3D layers with shape gradients and turbulent displacement, using fractal noise and time-based evolution expressions.

Apply a gradient ramp to a moving blob using separate shape layers, then animate with the wiggle expression on position and a camera for depth, without keyframes or plugins.

Explore creating breathing, living animations in After Effects by adjusting shapes and gradients, working in a 3D camera world with 3D layers, and fine-tuning text placement and color.

Animate the camera in After Effects to create subtle, organic movement by adjusting keyframes, easing, and background scale for a living, breathing gradient composition.

create an animation with shapes and gradients in after effects by using an adjustment layer, curves for color control, noise, blur, vibrance, and wiggle and time expressions instead of keyframes.

Create a layered background texture in After Effects with yellow and blue solids, masked and feathered toward a centered gradient, using curves and a lightning effect on an adjustment layer.

Learn to create the main text 'school' in After Effects, using a precomp, glass and blobby effects on a bg texture, kerning tweaks, and a gradient glow for animation.

Create a blue grid text reveal in After Effects by building masks, glow effects, and textures with alpha mats and track mats for dynamic motion.

Create texture motion in after effects by building a motion composition, applying blur and glow, and using gradient ramp and masked wipes. Design the background triangles to complete the animation.

In After Effects, create a grid on a solid, draw and duplicate a triangle, center its anchor, and keyframe scale, rotation, glow, and blur for a dynamic background triangle.

Create animated textures for text with gradients and backgrounds in After Effects, using glass and blobby lies, alphabets as textures, and threshold and radius with a grid for final render.