After Effects Motion Graphics | Motion Hero

Learn keyframe types—linear continuous, easy ease in, easy ease out, and easy ease—and how to use hold and rove across time with the graph editor to shape animation speed.

Create a bee from scratch in a 1920 by 1080, 30-second composition using the shape tool, match the reference with bezier handles, then rename layers and refine strokes and fills.

Animate a bee in After Effects by setting anchor points, parenting layers, and using expressions to loop motion; simulate wings, eyes, antennas, and shadows with keyframes, motion blur, and scripts.

Learn to render After Effects animations by adding to the render queue, selecting h.264 mp4 output, and choosing RGB or alpha channels, with dimensions adjusted in the composition when needed.

Master the After Effects graph editor using value and speed graphs. Separate dimensions for biaxial properties and edit keyframe velocity with handles for natural motion.

Create a simple After Effects animation that moves a pointer to Yes and No buttons, clicks them, and uses keyframes, easing, path control, and tint color changes.

Explore how interpolation creates intermediate frames between keyframes, shaping the animation path (spatial) and the value graph (temporal) with linear, busier, continuous busier, and hold options.

Learn basic animation with a bouncing ball in After Effects, covering timing, spacing, squash and stretch, and rotation using keyframes and a graph editor.

Learn to craft a bouncing basketball animation in After Effects using a reference image, keyframe animation, squash and stretch, rotation, easing, and a mirrored ground reflection with a null-based path.

Master bouncing ball animation in after effects by building keyframes, motion paths, squash and stretch, and easing, emphasizing timing, spacing, and rotation without references.

Explore creating a bouncing or spring animation for a cup by keyframing position and rotation, using layer parenting and expressions to tune amplitude, frequency, and energy decay.

Learn how to use anticipation in animation to prep the audience for action, by back-movement before exit, and by syncing position and rotation with easing and keyframes.

Master the 12 principles of animation—squash and stretch, anticipation, staging, and more—to elevate your motion graphics. Apply easing, arcs, timing, and exaggeration for more believability and appeal.

Learn to use motion to script or manual methods to create spring and ease keyframe animations in After Effects. Adjust overshoot, amplitude, frequency, and friction to shape motion.

Learn to fill and stroke shapes in After Effects, using solid colors, linear and radial gradients, opacity, stroke width, line cap, line join, dash, and field and composite rules.

Discover after effects shape parameters, create shapes like rectangle, ellipse, star, and polygon, group layers, adjust fill, stroke, and gradients, and learn per shape transforms and keyframe animations.

Explore taper and wave stroke options to control start length and end length, shaping stroke width, while adjusting amount, unit, cycle, and phase for dynamic animated lines.

Learn to apply the offset path modifier to a shape layer, adjust amount to scale without changing stroke, and create inside or outside copies with miter, round, or bevel joins.

Use the pucker and bloat modifier to distort shapes from circle to polygon, creating abstract forms, then animate a coin shine by keyframing size and amount and syncing star layers.

Explore the After Effects repeater modifier to duplicate shapes with precise copies, offset, transform, scale, rotation, and opacity, using practical backgrounds and animations.

Use the round corner modifier to smooth shape corners and compare with the shape layer's roundness. Create rounded notifications and steam with bezier paths, repeater, wiggle transfer, and merge path.

Explore the twist modifier in After Effects motion graphics, adjusting angle and center to create spirals, then combine twist with repeater to produce repeated shapes with precise spacing.

Discover how wiggle path in After Effects adds controlled vibrations to shapes, adjusting size, detail, point, wiggle speed, correlation, temporal phase, and spatial phase for synchronized animated lines.

Apply wiggle transform and wiggle transfer to shape layers and template shapes, control position, rotation, and scale, adjust frequency and random seed, and manage anchor points for centered rotation.

Learn to create flexible text animations in After Effects using the text tool, character and paragraph panels, and path-based options for font, color, size, alignment, and styling.

Create a center-aligned text animation using tracking with keyframes, add blur, scale ticks, set the anchor point to the center, and refine with the graph editor for smoother easing.

Create a glitchy text animation by randomizing characters with the character property and range selector, using offset and opacity keyframes, and refine timing with duplicated scale tweaks.

Encourage honest feedback to help improve this after effects motion graphics course, since every comment motivates the instructor and you can change or remove it whenever you want.

Separate each letter into its own layer, duplicate and rename layers to base and secondary parts, and adjust colors to simplify animating the letters in After Effects.

Animate letters by creating mask-based paths for each character and applying a shared stroke across layers. Isolate layers and refine timing with keyframes and the graph editor for smooth motion.

Animate letters with a bouncy effect in After Effects by copying scale and rotation, pasting keyframes, and delaying per letter while applying bend and pen effects to edges.

Enhance the animation by forming a center spiral into a heart, reversing time, parenting layers, and adding paint drops with splash layers while tapering and widening the stroke.

Explore two approaches to logo animation in After Effects—fast template-based workflows and bespoke custom work—using line, geometry, 3D, glitch, liquid, and morphing techniques to convey brand meaning.

Create a versatile bouncy logo animation in After Effects by animating individual letters with keyframes, easing, graph editor tweaks, and bounce expressions for position and rotation.

Create a professional logo animation in After Effects by building speed lines and sparkles, synchronizing input and output animation with keyframes, trim paths, strokes, and rotation.

Learn to create a gradient stroke on a logo using a mask and the thick stroke plugin, then animate the logo and accompanying text with keyframes and easing.

Learn to create engaging loop animations by keeping scenes simple, making every element move, using overlapping and smoothing keyframes, and aligning timings to avoid leaps.

Design a character in After Effects by constructing the head and body from layered shapes—beard, hair, eyes, nose, limbs—and set anchor points to enable springy rotation in a looping animation.

Rig the character with a two-pose loop, ensuring the first and last frames match, and use parenting, puppets, and bones to keep the axe and limbs synchronized.

Enhance a loop animation by adding scene details, animation layers, overlapping animation, springy motion, head rotation, overshoot, friction, leaves and pants bounce, and apply excite to keyframes.

Learn to animate firewood pieces in After Effects by creating two shapes, keyframing across frames, using a graph editor and easy ease, and adding band and shadow effects.

Learn to add anticipation and bouncing to animation by rotating the camera with keyframes, applying overshoot and Excite for dynamic motion, and using a locator group with a scale expression.