Overview
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Learn how to animate a logo in After Effects. Explore six different logo animation techniques for communicating the story of your brand.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Techniques for logo animation
- What you should know
- Applications used in this course
- Project overview
- Copy paths from Illustrator
- Animate masks with the Stroke effect
- Animate closed paths with masks
- Animate live type from Illustrator
- Beam radio waves
- Client brief
- Prepare artwork for animation
- Create a flickering reveal
- Basic scribble animation
- Scribble stroke options
- Add secondary animation
- Plan the animation
- Trim paths simultaneously for outline
- Trim paths individually for fills
- Repeat shapes with Radio Waves
- Create a negative reveal effect
- Choose an animation style
- Overshoot staggering animation
- Use paint to reveal a logo
- Exposure based on texture
- Separate foreground and background
- Logo review
- Auto-animating with Wiggle Transform
- Create time displacement animation
- Reveal with Venetian Blinds
- Cascade text using Offset
- What is this logo about?
- Distribute cards in 3D space
- Animate 3D layers and the camera
- Create a particles reveal
- Add a secondary particles stream
- Next steps
