You’ve positioned the type and applied some effects to it. It’s time to add some animation! You will learn several ways to animate text in Lesson 3; for now, you’ll ... Read MoreRead More
The BlueCrabLogo graphic was created in Illustrator; your job in After Effects is to add text and animate it. To work with the layers of the Illustrator file independently of ... Read MoreRead More
Lesson overview In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following: This lesson will take about an hour to complete. If you haven’t already done so, download the project ... Read MoreRead More
Take a minute to explore the predefined workspaces in After Effects. After Effects opens the panels that you would commonly use for animation tasks, including Motion Sketch, Wiggler, and Smoother. ... Read MoreRead More
The Properties panel provides quick access to properties for the selected layer. It displays Transform properties for all layers, and additional properties for text or shape layers. You can also ... Read MoreRead More
Use the Timeline panel to animate layer properties and set In and Out points for a layer. (In and Out points are the points at which a layer begins and ... Read MoreRead More
In this exercise, you’ll work with a separate composition—the one you imported from a layered Photoshop file. At the top of the Composition panel is the Composition Navigator bar, which ... Read MoreRead More
The title is currently in the center of the screen, obscuring the dog and distracting from the action. You’ll move it to the lower left corner, where it will remain ... Read MoreRead More
Layers are the components you use to build a composition. Any item that you add to a composition—such as a still image, moving-image file, audio file, light layer, camera layer, ... Read MoreRead More
A basic After Effects workflow follows six steps: importing and organizing footage, creating compositions and arranging layers, adding effects, animating elements, previewing your work, and rendering and outputting the final ... Read MoreRead More