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Design 3D & Animation Motion Graphics

Animate Explainer Videos From Storyboard to Animation

Learn how to animate explainer videos with motion graphics techniques from scratch.
Rating: 4.4 out of 54.4 (63 ratings)
12,980 students
Created by Hongshu Guo
Last updated 1/2021
English
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What you'll learn

  • Animate stunning motion graphics videos on your own
  • Improve your animation with animation principles and curves
  • Understand the basics of After Effects
  • Use hottest professional techniques to improve workflow and be more efficient

Requirements

  • No previous knowledge is required. Basic knowledge of adobe suite software will make this course easier to follow.
  • Download any version of Adobe After Effects. In the course, we're using the latest Adobe Suites.

Description

Explainer videos are animated video contents that explain a business and also convey the value of a business. There are so many awesome explainer videos created for all kinds of businesses to drive traffic and sales as well as generating awareness for their products and services.

Explainer videos are in high demand. Once you know how to animate explainer videos, it will make you a more marketable animator towards other competitors and be able to take on different kinds of fun projects

In this course, I will take you step by step from receiving a storyboard to rendering out our final explainer video animation. Here are the topics that we will cover in this course:

  • Complete professional explainer workflow from AI to AE

  • How to customize or come up with your storyboards

  • How to setup your illustration for animation

  • How to setup After Effects project for explainer video

  • How to animate each scene in After Effects

  • How to easily animate transitions between scenes

  • A variety of tools inside After Effects

  • Tons of keyboard shortcuts and tips and tricks in After Effects that will speed up your workflow

  • How to work with animation principles-Overshoot and Anticipation

  • How to edit speed graph to bring life to your animation

  • Apply simple wiggle expression in After Effects

The concepts and techniques covered in this course are fundamentals and essential workflows that you will be able to apply to any explainer video that you work on. Some of the basic tools, tips and tricks of After Effects can also be translated into any type of projects.

This is an introductory course and it’s for anyone who wants to learn the professional workflow of animating an explainer video, getting into motion design, adding animation to your graphic design and illustration.

Although it's an introductory course, there are a lot of things that we need to cover in this course, so a basic understanding of design tools from Adobe suites will make this course easier to follow.

If you would like to learn more about motion graphics, you can also check out my other courses.


Project Description

For the class project, you will be animating your first explainer video.

Here are the steps you can take to complete your project for reference. These are only guidelines to help you complete the project, you can also find the best process that works for you.

  • Take my storyboard or customize it to fit your need / create your own storyboard

  • Follow the steps in the course to think about the transition of each boards

  • Plan out animation before going into After Effects

  • Prepare your illustrator files

  • Setup After Effects project

  • Work through each storyboard following things taught in the course.

  • Work on transition of between each storyboard

  • Finalize your video

  • Export as a mp4 video

  • Upload to project page and share with us

Keep me posted with your work in progress video even if you only have a few sec. I will be happy to provide feedback and answer any questions you may have to guide you through the process.

After completing the project, you will have a 15s awesome explainer video to share with your friends on the internet. It can also be a great piece that you can put into your demo reel as a portfolio piece for potential employers or clients. Don’t forget to share with me in the project page, I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Who this course is for:

  • Motion graphics designers or video editors
  • Graphic designers or Illustrators
  • Anyone who wants to create animated video for their business and products

Featured review

Paul Storm
Paul Storm
115 courses
35 reviews
Rating: 4.5 out of 53 months ago
I really enjoyed this course, the tutor is very informative and makes it fun to learn this subject, and it is great to see how it all comes together. Totally recommend for everyone interested in creating this type of animation.

Course content

4 sections • 15 lectures • 2h 38m total length

  • Preview01:44

  • Preview13:38
  • Preview15:37

  • Setup Files in AE
    06:53
  • Animate Opening Scene
    17:17
  • Accent and Secondary Animation
    10:14
  • Globe to City Transition
    13:15
  • Cityscape Animation
    15:44
  • Transition After City
    08:54
  • Icon Animation
    18:13
  • Transition After Icons
    11:47
  • Logo Lockup
    12:36
  • Tagline and Finish Touches
    08:50
  • Export
    03:27

  • Congrats
    00:47

Instructor

Hongshu Guo
Motion Designer
Hongshu Guo
  • 4.4 Instructor Rating
  • 203 Reviews
  • 22,177 Students
  • 5 Courses

Hey! My name is Hongshu Guo and I'm a motion designer from Toronto, Canada. I've been animating in Adobe After Effects for more than 5 years. Animation is one of my passion and I am so lucky that I am able to work on all kinds of animation projects every single day at work for the past years. When I am not working, I always like to travel. Travelling gives me time to slow down my mind to enjoy the nature and world around me. It also provides me with new perspectives as well as inspirations.

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