
Logo animation brings a static logo to life through motion graphics, boosting impact and visual appeal. Discover how simple or complex animations meet client needs and elevate brand recognition.
Download course materials and set up After Effects and Illustrator to follow along; use the PDF free-trial link if needed and install Cinema 4D from the apps section.
Create a logo animation for the fictional women's sportswear brand Athena, featuring five animated scenes connected into one cohesive sequence.
Organize your After Effects project folders and install fonts to prepare for logo animation. Create a storyboard and set up a composition, then import Illustrator layers for smooth motion.
Import assets into After Effects, prepare art in Illustrator, center and scale layers, and apply alpha mat via track mats to reveal a silhouette inside a triangle for logo animation.
Master keyframes in Adobe After Effects to animate scale and position, apply easy ease via Speed Graph Editor and Keyframe Velocity panel, and organize scenes with precompositions and alpha mattes.
Explore motion design techniques to craft a revealing text effect for a premium logo animation in Adobe After Effects, using masks, stroke effects, and easing keyframes.
Synchronize the letter A with other letters through precise timing and precomp offsets, resize and crop compositions to 600 by 600, and set keyframes with easing for a smooth reveal.
Refine a logo animation in After Effects by adjusting pre-comp position keyframes and syncing timing across letters, using an adjustment layer with turbulence displacement and easy ease.
Utilize markers and shorten the work area to render efficiently, apply collapse to pre-comps, export in h.264 or quicktime with alpha, and organize assets and folders for easy collaboration.
Practice by recreating this logo animation as homework in after effects, customize colors and graphics, and consult the project file for steps or reach out for help.
Create a funky logo animation for a made-up YouTube channel, using stretch text animation to form a striking logo bumper or transition in After Effects.
Create a stretched text animation for a motion design logo in After Effects by converting Illustrator layers to shapes, then applying keyframes and refining paths.
Apply easy ease to all keyframes, then adjust path, scale, and rotation velocities to create a more dynamic logo animation with staggered layer offsets.
Create a synchronized icon and text animation in After Effects by precomposing icons, resizing the composition, animating with keyframes and easing, sequencing layers, and fine-tuning with the graph editor.
Create a slogan animation for a motion design logo in After Effects, using a solid background, circular mask reveal, text animators, color sampling from Illustrator, and a motion trail.
Create a polished logo outro in after effects by choreographing text and icon exits with precise timing, pauses, curved motion, precomps, time reversal, and a slogan scale-out for an ending.
Explore handy tricks for enhancing logo animation in After Effects, including using adjustment layers, CC Lens, transform, keyframe timing, posterize time, and rendering with transparency.
Practice motion design by recreating a logo animation for the home task, adjust colors, add graphics, and consult the project file for steps, seeking help when needed.
Create an impressive logo animation for a fictional IT data collection company. Sequence four scenes with a built-in After Effects script, expressions, and keyframes.
Learn to create a diverging paths logo animation in After Effects by guiding a sphere along a data line with a null object, using trim paths and precomps for reuse.
Duplicate compositions via the project panel, modify duplicates without changing originals, use precomps, nulls, and parent and link workflows, and organize layers for clean, scalable data line animations.
Animate a colorful sphere with a ripple behind it, rotate via an expression, then build a portal with masked reveals, stroke animation, and timing tuned with easy ease.
Create a text animation emerging from a portal using a separate text comp, animate with layer animators, and reveal via a portal track matte.
Paint the portal with a gradient using the gradient editor, adjust its colors and opacity. Render the animation, refine background gradient with the gradient ramp, and organize assets and pre-comps.
Recreate a motion design logo animation as homework, customize colors and graphics, and use the project file for steps; seek help from the instructor if needed.
Create a dynamic logo animation for a fictional video war game, exploring 3D world setup in After Effects, Cinema 4D renderer, a free neon stroke plugin, and simple background effects.
Import the illustrator logo into after effects, set up 3d cinema 4d, create stacked rise, off, vikings text with Belly Bold or alternatives, add orange tapered arrows, and nest comps.
Animate logo text in After Effects with per-character 3D, z-axis motion, and range selectors, using keyframes and easing. Copy animators across words, adjust anchor points, and switch renderers.
Trace the layer with auto trace, copy masks to a solid, apply saber with mask glow, and animate end offset; add camera movement, icon scale, and gradient background.
Master practical After Effects techniques to enhance logo text with inner shadow, backlight, and animated light sweep, plus color correction and efficient rendering workflows.
Recreate this logo animation for the home task, freely adjust colors and add graphics while following the project file steps and seeking help if needed.
Create a dynamic logo animation for a wild animal shelter using After Effects, 3D space, and 3D camera movement, with modular parts and a flexible, swap-friendly project structure.
Learn to organize many pictures in a 3D space in after effects by creating precomps for each image, layering in 3D, using a camera, and spacing objects along the z-axis.
Explore 3D camera techniques to scatter images in space, adjust depth of field, and create a logo reveal using track mattes, pre-compositions, and shape layers.
Learn to replace images in After Effects with alt-drag while updating pre-comps. Organize assets, manage compositions, and prepare clean renders for logo animation.
Recreate this logo animation as a homework assignment, with freedom to adjust colors and add graphics, while consulting the project file or asking for help as needed.
Celebrate completing this journey by showcasing five premium logo animations in motion design with after effects. Continue learning, push your limits, and share your creations with your portfolio and clients.
Get ready to take your creative career to the next level with logo animation! Hi, I'm Valeri, I’m a professional Motion Designer, and instructor in the best software for motion graphics, Adobe After Effects. After sharing some valuable content on social media for years and dropping three successful courses, I'm super excited to introduce my biggest course yet!
In this course, you will create five different types of premium logo animations, and learn Motion Graphics in the most fun and efficient way possible, all while exploring Adobe After Effects. You are going to learn the steps you have to take before animating a logo, how to get your logo ready for animation, add new graphics to it, make it work with your videos and pics, and so much more!
You'll start with easy animations and then move on to more challenging ones. And after each lesson, you will get a fun task to practice what you've learned. So, by the end of this course, you'll have the confidence to create different types of logo animations. Don't worry if you're a newbie or just starting with After Effects. I'll explain all the important functions and concepts of After Effects in a simple way ever. And if you want to go in-depth and learn more, I have a free beginner's guide where you can find detailed explanations about the most important topics in After Effects.
On top of all, to give you the best learning experience, you'll get a clear notification on when to work with me and when to listen without touching the computer. You'll also get mid-lesson questions to help you memorize the lessons better, and I'll even tell you when to take a 10-minute break. And the cherry on top is that this course is voiced by a professional voice-over in super simple English, so even if English is not your native language, like mine, you'll easily understand the lessons! So, get ready for a fun, engaging, and rich learning experience with logo animation!