
Explore tools for creating motion graphics in After Effects, including easy ease, graph editor speed graphs, and spring animations with overshoot, amplitude, and friction.
Create shapes in After Effects using the manual pen tool or parametric shapes, edit vertices with handles, convert to bezier paths, and place each shape on its own shape layer.
Explore taper and wave options for strokes, including start length, end length, and start/end ease, and animate them with a time expression in projects like ships, clouds, and cups.
Go ahead and create your own music: http://bit.ly/3IWmcVW
Use the offset path modifier to scale shapes with amount, adjust corners with line join (miter, round, bevel), and copy or unify shapes via merge paths.
Master how the round corner modifier smooths shape corners in After Effects, distinguish it from the shape layer roundness, and learn to control handles for selective corner smoothing.
Learn to animate circles and lines using the trim paths modifier in After Effects, adjusting start and end, offset, stroke, and keyframes to create smooth, synchronized reveals.
Explore the twist modifier in After Effects motion graphics, adjusting angle and center axis to twist lines, trace shapes, and build complex spirals with repeaters and anchors.
Learn how to use the wiggle paths modifier to animate shape paths with controllable size, detail, and point sharpness, and tune correlation, temporal phase, and spatial phase for synchronized motion.
Learn to design a coin in After Effects using pucker & bloat, extruded shapes, and Cinema 4D renderer; add a dollar icon, lighting, and reflections, rotate with nulls and keyframes.
Learn to create dynamic scenes with wiggle transform in After Effects, using anchor points, layer grouping, keyframes, and expressions to control scale, position, rotation, and easing.
Animate a sea wave in After Effects by using the zig zag modifier on a train path, shaping waves and clouds, and looping the motion with a loop out expression.
Hi there, the purpose of creating this course was to tell you that it is not always necessary to spend a lot of time and effort to create motion graphic scenes, but you can do it a lot faster and better by learning a few features of "shape".
One of the most basic and important things you need in motion graphics is designing and working with design tools. Since designing in After Effects is done using shapes, and also because of the power of the After Effects shape tool in designing and motion graphics, I will not go for design in other software such as illustrator and Photoshop. And I will completely focus on how to work with the shape tool and create beautiful and different scenes by this powerful tool.
In the following, you will learn the best capabilities of the shape tool, namely modifiers, which help you through the designing process as well as creating beautiful motion graphics.
First you will get acquainted with the “merge path” modifier and how to combine the shapes together, and then you will get acquainted with its uses in motion graphics.
Next you will learn the function of the “pucker and bloat” modifier and how to create a star and an attractive motion graphics scene.
Then you will get acquainted with the “repeater” modifier, which is very useful in creating beautiful backgrounds, crowded and repetitive environments, as well as creating “Burst shapes”.
Then you will learn how to use “trim path” and creating animation of plant growth.
You will learn how to create objects like smoke or steam by combining several modifiers with round corners.
And we will go on until you learn all the modifiers and how they work, as well as how to use them in motion graphic videos.
finally apart from learning the shape tool and its modifiers well, you get the ability to create and animate many motion graphic scenes.
Know that I will be around to help - if you get lost you can drop a post on the video 'Questions and Answers' below each video and I'll be sure to get back to you.
With the 30-day 100% money back guarantee, there is nothing holding you back from jumping in right now and trying the course out.
Go ahead and click the enroll button, and I'll see you in lesson 1!