Motion Graphics Design in After Effects - Motion & Effects

Create vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator, organize layers, import to After Effects, and animate a 90 motion for selected graphics to form perpetual motion, featuring bats and mood-enhancing effects.

Prepare vector graphics in Illustrator by organizing layers; these layers import as layers into After Effects, while groups and stories create a more complex setup.

Import Illustrator vector files into After Effects by right-clicking the project panel and choosing import, then select footage with retain layer sizes to preserve Illustrator layers for animation.

Master typical overshoot animation in After Effects by using scale, anchor point adjustments, the graph editor for value-based easing, and motion blur to create lively motion graphics.

Animate three house layers by setting anchor points, copying previous keyframes, and adjusting timing, scale, and motion blur to create a cohesive entrance sequence.

Learn how to reveal with masks in After Effects, animate mask paths with keyframes, adjust points, feather the mask, and create dynamic stop-motion style reveals.

Break a graphic into layers, craft bat wings with masks, and animate rotation with a loop-out expression for a flying bat in After Effects.

Create a dynamic title in After Effects by cropping a pre-comp with region of interest, adding drop shadows and bevel, and animating scale and blur with keyframes.

Duplicate bat layers, pre-compose them, and apply a zero-to-100 percent scale animation while adding a wiggle position expression for perpetual, random motion in the Halloween scene.

Use the mesh warp effect to distort a tree and three elements, creating a perpetual animation with carefully placed keyframes for smooth, life-like motion.

Learn to create a perpetual, rhythmic movement in After Effects using CC Bender and distortion effects on crosses and a house, mastering top/base bending, keyframes, and loop expressions.

Create a perpetual swing animation by balancing and tweaking layered motion across multiple elements, using bend effects and placed keyframes, then copy, invert, and loop for a seamless result.

Learn to use the wave warp effect on the ground to create perpetual movement. Adjust height, width, direction, and speed, pin the bottom, and expand the land beyond the composition.

Learn to apply mood effects across a composition using an adjustment layer, exploring turbulent noise, blending modes, and keyframed evolution to create atmospheric motion graphics in After Effects.

Add mood with a snow effect in After Effects by applying a solid layer, adjusting color, size, wind, and depth, then refine animation for a subtle, cinematic scene.

Adjust keyframes and speed for crosses and houses, then organize the project with pre comps folders and scene naming to keep the animation neat and ready for polishing.

Animate a still scene with pumpkins, an owl, and trees, starting from a fancy background and expanding pumpkin motion from four to hundreds, while tweaking where it begins and ends.

Import graphics and create a composition for scene two, adjust layer sizes, disable Illustrator PDF API sequence, delete unneeded crosses, and begin animating pumpkins for the next video.

Animate the background with two adjustment layers, using turbulent displace and evolution keyframes, and blend modes like darken and multiply to create a perpetual, Illustrator radial gradient scene.

Apply continuous distortion effects to trees in After Effects, keyframing evolution to create perpetual movement, adjust turbulence, amount, and size for varied, synchronized motion across layers.

Convert a vector layer from Illustrator to After Effects shape layers, locate eye groups, and animate an owl blink by scaling its eyes with keyframes and loop out.

Create a fluid pumpkin animation in After Effects by setting initial position and scale, using easy ease and graph editor adjustments to refine velocity and opacity.

master how to replicate motion in After Effects by copying keyframes for three properties across pumpkins, adjusting timing, and aligning anchor points to create synchronized animations in real time.

Sequence layers to create a grouped animation, use duplicates and pre compositions to vary timing, adjust positions with anchor points, enable motion blur, and optimize rendering.

Orchestrate a title sequence by organizing layers into scenes, tweaking text size and line breaks, choreographing a trick-or-treat reveal, adjusting timing between scenes, and preparing the composition for rendering.

Explore motion graphics techniques in after effects, focusing on motion paths, ghost distortions, reveal effects, and motion blur to animate a witch and graves with perpetual motion.

Import vector graphics into After Effects, verify composition retains sizes, and adjust blending modes like screen, color dodge, and linear dodge to fix import issues.

Discover how to craft an effect-based reveal in After Effects by animating four corner pins on crosses with the corner pin distortion, using keyframes, timing tweaks, and feathered masks.

Learn to create smooth displacement effects in After Effects by using keyframes to control evolution, applying displacement to multiple ghost layers for cohesive motion.

Animate ghosts in After Effects by setting position keyframes, adjusting motion-path handles, and staggering duplicates to create a playful, non-linear sequence with varied timing.

Learn to create smooth fading effects for ghost elements in after effects using track mattes, alpha and luma mattes, and gradient opacity for seamless in-out transitions.

Master a forward and backward motion with flips using auto orient along the path, scale flips, and precise keyframes to control motion paths, timing, and on-screen appearance in After Effects.

Apply track matte and luma matte techniques to confine the witch within a moon mask, adjust a linear gradient for clean edges, and animate the entry and exit.

Create and sequence titles in a Halloween scene, adjust size and timing with keyframes, bring in ghosts, and plan displacement for moving crosses.

Apply displacement to cross layers, animate evolution to 180, copy keyframes to other crosses, adjust speed, enable motion blur everywhere, and prep the scene for render.

Create portable transitions in After Effects that move between video cuts from one project to another, using diverse effects and distortion to achieve beautiful animation.

Learn to craft a professional portable transition in After Effects by sequencing three scenes with an adjustment layer, transforming and bulging the image, enabling motion blur, and fine-tuning with keyframes.

Explore time remapping in After Effects to adjust animation start times relative to an adjustment layer by moving time remap keyframes and syncing durations.

Render your active composition with Adobe Media Encoder, selecting H.264 MP4, then upload to YouTube or Facebook and share the link in the course Q&A.

Create a slide show animation in After Effects, using motion graphics techniques, keyframes, and effects to build backgrounds and three scenes, with a workflow for duplicating compositions and pre comps.

Create an animated background in After Effects by grouping shapes into a pre-comp and applying the offset effect on an adjustment layer, enabling smooth, controllable motion with minimal keyframes.

Add a CC lens distortion on an adjustment layer, tune size and center, and refine keyframes with the value graph to achieve controlled distorted motion in After Effects.

Explore color effects in After Effects by applying gradient and color balance, adjusting hue and saturation, and layering shadows on an adjustment layer to achieve dynamic, color-graded visuals.

Organize assets with background and media folders, set up a composition in after effects at 1920x1080, 30 frames per second, 20 seconds, pre-compose media scenes to 1080x1080 and center align.

Learn to add text and synchronize it with a background animation in After Effects by using a null object to parent text layers and adjust motion with the speed graph.

Duplicate slides by reusing a single scene and swapping images, while keeping the same text and animation, then rename scenes and drop new media on top with alt/option.

Create a centered web store text animation in After Effects using a text animator with scale and blur, trim layers, and time keyframes and range selectors to reveal the URL.

Fine-tune exit animations in After Effects by adjusting keyframes, anchor points, and positions across scenes to create right, left, and up exits, and set text to black for readability.