Logo Animation in After Effects: Complete Beginner's Guide

Master the After Effects interface by creating a new composition, adjusting width, height, frame rate, duration, and background color, then navigate the canvas with zoom, fit, pan, and grid options.

Navigate the After Effects project window, import media with shortcuts like control i or double-click, and organize assets by creating folders and a new composition.

Learn timeline and composition basics in After Effects: create a main animation comp, import media with Ctrl I, fit to comp, and explore the two timeline areas.

Navigate the file and edit menu, create or open a composition with shortcuts, and customize the After Effects windows and workspace to suit animation work.

Explore the After Effects toolbar, mastering selection, hand, zoom, pan behind, and rotation tools, and learn to work with anchor points, fill and stroke, shape and text tools.

Explore the effects and presets panel in After Effects and apply brightness and color contrast. Learn to align text and center content using the pan behind tool and anchor point.

Learn to create and configure After Effects compositions, set names, presets, frame rate, resolution, and duration, and nest multiple compositions to build layered animations.

Learn how to use keyframes in After Effects to animate a shape’s position, scale, rotation, and opacity, including adding, removing, and jumping between keyframes with keyboard shortcuts.

Master essential After Effects shortcut keys to animate quickly; press p, s, r, and t for position, scale, rotation, and opacity, and navigate keyframes with k and j.

Learn to use the After Effects timeline by importing a logo, adjusting duration and work area, and trimming with B and N, with keyframes for transform properties.

Explore the rectangle tool in After Effects, adjust fill and stroke, apply gradients, align shapes, and understand shape layer transform versus rectangle transform and rectangle path concepts.

Explore shape tools in After Effects, including rounded rectangles, ellipses, polygons, and stars, and learn to adjust corners, points, rotation, and outer radius to create varied shapes.

Master the pen tool in After Effects to create and edit shapes by adding and deleting points, converting vertices to create curvature with handles, and refining paths.

Learn to create a logo animation in After Effects and apply ease in and ease out by adjusting position, scale, rotation, and opacity with keyframes and the keyframe assistant (F9).

Use the graph editor in After Effects to examine the value graph and see how x position values change. Apply ease in and ease out to adjust animation speed.

Discover the speed graph in After Effects, compare it to the value graph, and learn to adjust keyframe speed using handles for realistic, varied motion.

Pre-compose groups multiple layers into a new After Effects composition using Ctrl+Shift+C or right-click, name it (for example, bouncing ball), and move all attributes into it.

Master After Effects layers, including shape, text, solid, and null objects, and use a null for parenting; apply adjustment layers and 3D layers for 3D rotation.

Learn how to use the parenting feature in After Effects to create a rotating, linked shape animation by setting parent-child relationships, adjusting scale and rotation with keyframes.

Create and refine masks in After Effects using layer or shape tools, adjust mask paths, feathers, and expansion, and apply alpha or luma track mattes.

Learn to use the repeater in After Effects to duplicate shapes with control over copies, offset, rotation, opacity, scale, and anchor point, including aligning the anchor within shape layers.

Apply trim path in After Effects to animate a stroke on an ellipse. Set start, end, and offset keyframes to create a loading-like motion.

Explore wiggle path in After Effects by applying it to a red 20-pixel stroke, adjusting size, details, and smooth corners, then combine with trim path for heartbeat-like animations.

Learn to create wave-like stroke animations in After Effects with the zigzag effect, adjust size, per second, smooth corners, and apply trim path for sound wave like motion.

Use the twist option in After Effects to bend a line, animate trim path from 0 to 100 with keyframes, adjust center and stroke for dynamic animations.

Explore 3d layers in After Effects by converting 2d shapes to 3d, moving in x, y, z, and rotating. Switch renderers to Cinema 4D to access extrude and bevel options.

Create a 3D cube in After Effects by building 3D layers, aligning anchor points, snapping edges, and animating with a null object, rotation keyframes, and parenting.

Learn to create 3D scenes in After Effects, add a camera, use two views to control the active camera with angle of view, depth of field, and focus.

Demonstrates lighting in After Effects for 3D layers, using point, spot, parallel, and ambient lights to shape color, shadows, and falloff, and explains positioning and basic adjustments for logo animation.

Explore After Effects expressions with loop out and loop in to create seamless looping animations from keyframes, including setting up a shape, anchor alignment, and easy ease.

Explore cycle, offset, and ping pong expressions in After Effects, using loopout to drive forward motion and offset to shift values.

Explore time and wiggle expressions in After Effects, building a rotating timer with time-based rotation and a dynamic wiggle for position, including practical parameter examples and wiggle position options.

Master the Illustrator and After Effects workflow by creating vector art in Illustrator, saving, importing as a composition with retain layer sizes, and animating with position and rotation keyframes.

Begin the MTV logo animation by separating colors into individual layers in Photoshop, then import into After Effects to build a layered, scalable composition controlled by a null object.

Animate the MTV logo by separating the M into yellow, blue, and red parts, keyframing scale and path, refining with the graph editor, and adding an echo effect.

Learn steps to animate an MTV logo in after effects, using keyframes, graph editor, trim paths, masks, and alpha mask techniques to create dynamic blue lines and letter transitions.

Create an MTV logo reveal in After Effects by building lines with round caps, animating stroke and trim paths with keyframes, and refining color and blur for a polished look.

Learn to animate a target logo in After Effects by splitting letters into separate layers and timing keyframes with a null object and pre-composition for a polished reveal.

Master logo animation in After Effects with a complete beginner's guide, using force scaling, keyframes, graph editor tweaks, stroke and ellipse elements, and trim path techniques for a polished reveal.

Master a target logo animation in After Effects by setting position keyframes, easing with f9, adjusting size and stroke, and enabling motion blur for a polished result.

Prep a Starbucks logo for After Effects by converting a jpg to png, removing the white background, and tracing in Illustrator to create a stroke-ready vector for animation.

Build and animate a Starbucks logo in After Effects by crafting shapes with the rectangle tool and pen tools, applying fills and strokes, and importing an Illustrator file into composition.

Create a bouncing logo animation by adjusting the anchor point with the pan behind tool, applying position keyframes, and refining motion in the speed graph and rotation tweaks.

Learn logo animation in after effects with a complete beginner's guide, applying step-by-step techniques from the Starbucks logo through keyframes, null object parenting, rotation edits, and cc pixel polly.

Learn to animate the logo in after effects using cc pixel polly, force center, stroke with trim path, and wave warp with turbulence displace, timed by keyframes and alpha masking.

Create a slow After Effects logo animation by extending duration, building a logo fill with stroke, applying light sweep, enabling motion blur, and designing a masked reflection.

Learn After Effects logo animation for Starbucks by parenting layers to a null, keyframing scale, and applying gaussian blur and wiggle position to ellipses for color motion.

Animate the Pepsi logo in After Effects by separating each letter into its own Photoshop layer, then drive position and scale with a null object and speed graph.

Master logo reveal animation in After Effects by using the graph editor to keyframe rotation, position, and scale, enable motion blur, duplicate elements, align snapping, and apply easing with F9.

Learn to create a Pepsi logo reveal in After Effects using keyframes with ease in/out, graph editor tweaks, and null objects with parenting to control scale, rotation, and motion blur.