Overview
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Learn how to animate type using different methods in After Effects, from animation presets to animated cameras, and pick movement that matches the meaning of the words on screen.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Dissecting high-energy animation
- Exploring clean animation techniques
- Understanding the anatomy of accents and highlights
- Choosing type for legibility
- Understanding read times and screen position
- Creating visual hierarchy for faster understanding
- Cleaning up type-heavy graphics
- Animating colors for legibility
- Working with existing presets (and visually browsing)
- Customizing and retiming an animation
- Building animation properties from scratch
- Refining the animation
- Creating controlled chaos with type animators
- Animating cameras for dynamic simulation
- Building glows, blurs, and highlights
- Building tension
- Creating subtle accents with duplicate layers
- Creating smooth camera animation
- Enhancing with textures and CINEMA 4D Lite
- Building a detailed credit roll
- Accenting key words
- Multiline dynamic moves with cameras and type animators
- Using multiple animators and refining your animation
- Wrapping up
