Overview
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Learn how to leverage the 3D options in Adobe After Effects to create a bouncing animated sphere that can make your motion graphics project stand out.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Project folder structure
- Creating the sphere's color map
- Creating the sphere
- Adding reflections and color correction
- Creating the squash and stretch animation
- Adding squash and stretch marks
- Automating the squash and stretch animation
- Expression linking the sphere’s rotation properties
- Expression linking the sphere’s squash and stretch animation
- Connecting the sphere to a position null
- Adding a wiggle expression to the position values
- Adding Puppet tool handles
- Rigging the Puppet tool handles with nulls
- Adding a bounce-decay-stop expression to all the moving parts
- Animating the position and rotation
- Animating the sphere color map
- Animating the squash and stretch
- Animating the Puppet tool elasticity
- Creating an automated shadow
