Overview
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Learn how to create animated infographics with Adobe After Effects using shape layers, masks, expressions, CINEMA 4D Lite, and some helpful third-party scripts.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before taking the class
- Using the exercise files
- Understanding the Chart tools in Adobe Illustrator
- Preparing charts & graphs from Illustrator for animation
- Cutting up flattened infographics into layers with Photoshop
- Importing & converting Illustrator charts to shape layers for animation
- Importing & converting Photoshop files for animation
- Animating line graphs
- Animating bar graphs
- Animating pie charts
- Timing animation to audio
- Creating numbers that count
- Linking graphic animations together with expressions
- Linking changing numbers with animated elements
- Creating dynamic moves with overshoot animation
- Camera animation techniques to isolate specific information
- Animating a sequence of infographic elements with cameras
- Creating & texturing 3D line graphs from Illustrator files
- Modeling 3D line graphs
- Animating 3D line graphs with CINEMA 4D Lite
- Creating & texturing 3D pie charts from Illustrator files
- Animating 3D pie charts with CINEMA 4D Lite
- Creating & animating charts in After Effects with Cinema Spice: Charts & graphs
- Creating & animating charts and graphs with aescripts: AEInfoGraphics
- Creating animated charts & graphs with aescripts: Infocharts Creator
- Creating animated charts & graphs with aescripts: Easy Pie Chart
- Creating faster animation with aescripts: MotionMonkey
- Conclusion
