Advanced Kinetic Type Animation in Adobe After Affects

1. Introduction: Hi, I'm Hong Chu and I'm a motion designer in Canada. I'd be animating in Adobe After Effects professionally for eight years now. I've worked in advertising agencies for clients like Adidas, PayPal, Walmart, and many more. [MUSIC] Today I'm going to be teaching you how to animate an advanced kinetic type intro video in After Effects from storyboard to final animation. Kinetic type video is very common and popular type of motion graphics video. It's an essential part of motion graphics that will help you understand how to work with typography and using typography to tell your brand story creatively. Once you understand how to animate kinetic type video in After Effects, it will make you a more polished and marketable animator towards your competitors and be able to create fun projects on your own. It's also a solid starting point to advance your motion graphic skills and get you prepared for more complex animation, as well as exciting future opportunities. In this course, I will show you everything you need to know to animate a short, but the best kinetic type video. I'll show you the complete, and full professional workflow from preparing your storyboard inside Adobe Photoshop. How to set up your After Effects file for animation. Seamless and professional workflow between Photoshop and After Effects. Advanced animation using Graph Editors for silky smooth transitions and life-like movements. Popular and most exciting special effects for kinetic type videos. Advanced techniques to polish your video with secondary elements and glitches. How to animate with full control. Simple and effective way to create complex animation with least key frames possible. Tons of keyboard shortcuts, workflow tips, and tricks that I use all the time for my daily professional work. For the class project, you'll be applying the skills and techniques learned in this class to create your own 15-second animated kinetic type video. I've already provided the storyboard we use in the class, but you can customize it and come up with your own design. Make something that you'll be really proud of. This class is for someone who has already done some level of animation before and is comfortable using the software. We won't be explaining how the program works, but rather, we'll focus on the advanced stuff of how you can animate as a professional. If you're someone who wants to improve on your existing motion graphic skills and add advanced animation techniques into your skill set, this class is for you. To be honest, this class is quite hard. If you're not familiar with After Effects and have not done any After Effects animation before, I recommend you to check out my other beginner classes to get familiar with the software before you take on this one. The concepts and techniques we'll learn in this course will be easily translated into any type of projects and advance your level to become a better animator. Beyond just creating your final kinetic type video, you will also develop greater insight into visual narration and expand your animation vocabularies. It will train your eyes to become animator size and provide you with a brand new way of looking at animation in storyboard in the future. I hope you have a lot of fun learning and animating. I'll see you in the class. 2. Project: [MUSIC] Welcome to the class. Before we begin, I want to talk about the class project. For the class project, you will be animating your own 15-second kinetic-type video based on the storyboard provided. I'll take you through the whole process of how to customize and make your own storyboard all the way to the final animation. First of all, I want you to read through the project description there as listed in detail the steps you need to take to complete the project. Get familiar with what we'll be animating. I'll take you on a journey of creating an exciting, advanced kinetic-type video from scratch. As you're taking the course and working on your project, I encourage you to share with me the final video in the project panel so I can provide personalized feedback. A 15-second kinetic-type video is not an easy project, especially if it's your first time doing it. There'll be struggles and pains, trust me. Your brain may even hurt a little bit but same as learning anything, it's a part of the process and I'm here to help you get the most out of this course and answer any question and clear any roadblocks along the way. If you power through it and complete your project, you will learn a ton and be a much better animator in a couple of short weeks. Once you follow me and complete this project, you will get an idea of what the full process is to create a kinetic-type video and a lot of the advanced techniques, the process and workflow, and animation techniques we teach in this class is applicable to any motion graphic works. It will help you get ahead of the game and give you the confidence to be ready for any future client work. Not only that, in the end, you will have a full exciting advanced kinetic-type video to put on your demo reel that you can pitch to potential client and get work right away. That's it with class project. I'll see you in the first class. 3. Storyboard: [MUSIC] In this class, let's talk about the storyboard in order to animate it in Adobe After Effects, we need to have something in Photoshop prepared for the animation, which is the storyboard. I already have my storyboard file in Photoshop setup here, as you can see. Right now, I'm in this storyboard.psd, which is a Photoshop file. Then in the layers panel, you can see I've got Frame 1 all the way to Frame 10. If I turn on the eye icon, you can see as I scroll through the different frames we have. So, these are our storyboard. There are pretty simple and straightforward. If I open Frame 1 and then just hide all of these different layers above it, you can see I only got a text layer as a background and then there's one main text layer which is animation and then we got almost black background. Only three layers within Frame 1. Then if I go to Frame 2, when I open it, I've got one animation text outlined and then one in purple in the middle, and the other one on top, which is also outlined, four layers in Frame 2. These are very simple and straightforward. Once I have these setup, I can bring this storyboard.psd file into After Effects to animate all these different topography. If I go to the folder, I can open the storyboard.png. Then you can see here, this is our full storyboard, from 1-10.This is what it looks like. You can almost see there's some motion and we can apply a lot of different effects and different animation movement to the topography to have a kinetic type intro video. Another thing I want to mention in this video is that if you want to change and customize to your own intro video, you can also go to different layers and then change the text within the layer. If you don't want the first word to read as a animation, you can actually do that. You can maybe put like sports intro, something like that. You can customize it based on your own needs and to come up with your own animation, your own introduction video. But for now we'll keep it as animation. Then also in terms of color, you can also change the color if you want. Let's say if we go to Frame 4 and then we have this background, ON, and then we have the front one, which is in a purple color, if you want to do a green, you can do that. You can change the theme to a green color if you want, or you can change the theme to orange color. It depends on what color you like. You can actually customize the storyboard to your own favorite color and come up with your own storyboard. In the end we'll have something like this laid out from Frame 1 to Frame 10. It will roughly show what we'll be animating each frame, and then for this one, it will last around 15 seconds. That's it on the storyboard. In the next video, we'll jump into After Effects and create an animation file. 4. File Setup: [MUSIC] In this video, let me show you how to set up After Effects file with the storyboard we had. Now, let's open After Effects. This is the panel once we open After Effects. In the center here, you can click on this new composition. Then I'll name this one the main composition, Main Comp, which is the main working area for our animation. For the width and height, I'll keep it 1920 by 1080 and then leave it to square pixels. For the frame rate, I'll actually do a 30 frame per second. Then the duration, I'll give it a 15-second duration. Background color, keep it to black. Click, okay. Now we have a main composition setup in After Effects. Next thing I wanna do is to import the Photoshop file. We can actually double-click on this project area and then navigate to our storyboard. I'll go to the storyboard PSD, which is the Photoshop file, and then import, as I'll try to do the composition retain layer sizes. Make sure you do not click on this Photoshop sequence. Because if you click on this one, it's going to give you a hard time later on. This is only used when you are creating a sequence. For 95 or 99 percent of the time we won't need it, so just make sure you don't click on this one and then click on Open. It's asking me if I want to keep the layer editable and then I'll click on okay. As you can see in the project panel here, I've got a storyboard pre-composition and then a folder that contains all the Photoshop layers. The way I want to organize this project panel is I want to create a folder, first of all, call 00 _Render_Comp. This is going to be always on the top since I put 00 in the front. I will drop this main composition into the render comp, so this main comp is going to be the working area. Also when we finish the animation will render this main composition, which is a render comp. The next folder I want to create as a asset folder named assets. Then I'll drop these storyboard layers, this folder into the assets, which is the asset folder. Next one I want to create, is a Precomps. The precomps folder will host all the pre-composition we have. If you want, we can still do a music folder or music and footage if you want. But for now, I think these four folders are the ones we want to keep right now. It can keep our project panel pretty organized so that it can help us later on down the road. Let's navigate to the precomps folder and then go to the storyboard, double-click on it. You can see over here we got one through 10 frame in each individual composition. Each composition will have all our Photoshop layers inside that composition. If I go back, go to Frame 2 and then we got all our different layers. Then if we check Frame 3, we got all these different layers. What I want to do now is go back to the storyboard composition and then select from 1-10, click on the Frame 10, hold down Shift and then click on Frame 1, select all of them. Command C, copy it, and then go back to the main comp command V, paste it. Now, within the working area, which is our main composition, we have from Frame 1 all the way to Frame 10. This is going to be the place where we'll be animating our kinetic type video. That's it with how to set up our After Effects file. In the next video, we can start animating the first frame. 5. Start Animating: In this class, let's start animating the first frame. Let's navigate to the first frame layer over here in the timeline and the first thing I want to do, I want to space them out a little bit, space out all these different frames and then have everything turned on with the eye icon. Let's say if I want every single frame to last for one second, I'll just drag these different layers and then stagger them, offset them for one second each. Now if I hit the play button, you can see it will be just static frames cutting to the next one after another. That's our staggering offset right now. This first one, let's animate the first frame. To animate the first frame, let's go into the Frame 1 composition, double-click on it. I want to zoom in. If I zoom in, I can almost tell there is a purple outline backgrounds behind my animation text. I think right now, it's in front. I'll drop it beneath it. Then, first of all, I want to convert these to as editable text. I can click on the first one, right-click and then create, convert to editable text. Is going to change the Photoshop layer into a live text area, and now we can actually change the text to whatever we like, but we'll keep it as animation for now. This one, same thing, right-click and then go to create, convert to editable text. For the background, I'll leave it like that. That's great. Then now I just need to animate this animation text here. Let me zoom in a little bit. I can click on here to fit it to the preview area. Right now you can see the anchor point is not at the center of this layer, so I need to make it in the center. To do that, I can go to this pen behind tool, hold down Command key, double-click on this one, and then it's going to change the anchor point into the center of my layer. That's what I want. The animation I would like to do is, first of all, I want to do a scale change. Let's hit S on the keyboard, and then go forward maybe 15 frames, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I'm using the shortcut. You can see on the left corner here, hit the stopwatch add a keyframe and then go back to zero seconds. Let's change this to zero. Then we can easy ease function key F9 to easy ease the keyframes and go to graph editor. Let's try a curve like this to ease it all the way in, so it's like this. I feel like it's a bit slow, so I want to bring the two keyframes closer, make it 10 frames. This is the first animation we have. It's already got some energy. That's good. Now I just need to duplicate this layer Command D, Command D, two times and then hit P on the keyboard, put a position keyframe, and then go forward 10 frames. Bring this one up, and then bring this one down. Let's easy ease it. Go to the graph editor. Another way to easy ease a keyframe is to right-click and then go to keyframe assistant, easy ease. I'm using the shortcut. The shortcut is F9. I'm holding down the function key and then F9 on the keyboard. You can see the shortcut here, it says F9. It's the same thing. Go to the graph editor. I want to do a easing graph here. Another thing is to make sure you are in the speed graph instead of the value graph. You can click on the second button here and then change the graph to the speed graph and now you can see something similar to what we have here. If I click on this button here, it says Fit all graphs to view. Is going to fit this graph to the view here and make it bigger so that it's easier to drag the handle. This is a graph we have to achieve this animation here. That's good. That's the first animation for our text here. After this, I want to bring the middle text up and then scale it up all the way and then make these two top and bottom one into an outline. The way to do that is after we have this motion here, I want to go to this middle one and then make sure we go back to the selection tool. We already have the scale property here. Make sure I hit a keyframe over here and then go forward maybe a couple of seconds, make it bigger. Yeah. Something like this would work. Then we will have these two layers change to outline. The way to do that is I'm duplicating these two layers and also cut it at this point. The way to do that is Command Shift D and now you can see I've got two different layers. That's the exact same as the first two that are selected. However, they're cut at 20 frames over here. These are two separate layers now. This Layer 1, Animation 5, is the same as Animation 3 over here. Basically, I duplicated the layer and also cut it at this point. Now I just need to change these two into outline. The way to do that is very simple. Just go to the character panel here, and if you don't have character panel, you can go to Windows and then select the character panel over here, and then just hit on this swap, fill, and stroke. It's going to change our animation text into an outline. If I'll play the animation, this is what it looks like. However, when it grows bigger, it's overlapping with my outline text. At this point, I still want the text to maybe move a bit further away from this text in the center, so there is a cut at this point here. That's the animation we like and then let's go back to the main composition. Let's see the animation. Something like this, however, I'm still missing something. Over here I want to add two solid layer. Go to layer, new. And then solid. I want this animation to have a cut look instead of a smooth transition or a smooth scaling up. I want it to be cut, so basically like glitches in the kinetic typography. I want to go to this color picker and then change it to the backgrounds dark blue color. Make sure this is the glitch maybe. Click on "Okay", and then cut it to two frames. Hit left square bracket and then go forward one frame Command right arrow and then use option right square bracket to cut it. Basically, this layer only last for two frames. One, two, it will be our cuts. I'll put one here, one here, and then duplicate it. I'll put maybe one over here, and then, let's see, one over here. This is the style we got. There's almost a flash of the background color as cutting in between the animation, so the animation is not very smooth. Let's go back to the main composition and see what it looks like. Yeah. I think that works and that's how we animate Frame 1. 6. Null & Cut Layers: [MUSIC] In this lesson, let's animate Frame 2. We already have the Frame 1 animation. We can take a look here. This is our Frame 1 animation and right now we have the Frame 2 just cut in around this one-second five frames. We can go to Frame 2 composition, double-click on it. First of all, to animate Frame 2, I want to turn these three layers into editable text. Select all three layers, right-click go to Create, convert to editable text. Now we need to change the anchor point to the center of these three layers. To do that, make sure you hold down Command key' on the keyboard. Double-click on this Pen Behind Tool. Now you can see all three layers have the anchor point in the center. To animate these layers, what I want to do is I want to first duplicate these three layers, Command D, and then maybe I can change it to a different level color, let's say red. I can turn off these first three layers. I want to change the word into motion instead of animation. Then I also want to duplicate this layer again. Put one more motion on top. Then duplicate this one again, put one more on the bottom. Duplicate again, put one more over here. Now I've got six layers with motion text on it. Then I've got three layers with animation. To animate these layers. I want to move this one all the way up. Turn these animation back on. Now I want to move this one up. Now I want to control the position property of all these layers with one null objects, go to Layer New and then No Objects. Make sure we have everything parented to the null. Then put key on the keyboard. I can animate the null objects. Once we have position property, we can right-click Separate Dimensions since we're only animating the y position, we can separate dimension only animating on the Y position. Hit the Stopwatch to add a keyframe and then go forward, maybe 10 frames, 11, 12, 13 frames. Move it down like this and then move forward and maybe another five frames. Make the motion tax settle in the center. Something like that. Then I need to select all three keyframes. Right-click Keyframe Assistant, Easy Ease. Go to the Graph Editor. Make sure you're in the value graph instead of the speed graph this time, click on this icon and then hit Value Graph. Fifth graph to view. All I want to do is to drag these handles to give it a bit more energy. Something like that. If I preview the animation, this is what it looks like. That's good. If I go back to the main composition, let's preview the whole thing from Frame 1 to Frame 2 see that? That's good. We got this animation here. Maybe we want to hang on this frame a bit longer. I can move everything, maybe two frames. It's got a two-frame hold. That's good. Now we got this motion here. The next thing I want to do is to make sure this motion tags the purple one is traveling downward to this line here and then to this line here and then come back up. I want this motion text to travel down and come back up in the center. In order to do that, so from here, just find this motion purple. What can name it to motion purple. Then we can cut it at this frame here. Command Shift D, move it down, and then go forward four frames, 1, 2, 3, 4, cut it again. Command D. Move it down. Go forward, four frames. Cut it again, move it back up. Go forward four frames, 1, 2, 3, 4, and then cut it again. Go over here. Let's see the animation here. You can see our purple motion tax is traveling down here. I think we're missing one frame here. I just need to move these one, maybe over for two frames and then extend this one for two frames. We have motion, go down, go up. Yeah. This is what we like. You can see right now I'm not animating anything. I'm just cutting the layers to make the motion texts to cut through different positions, and each one is lasting for four frames. Now we have the purple text ready. We just need to fix the other outlines here. For this frame, where's my outline over here? This is my outline. I need to cut it at this frame here and then move this outline up. At this frame, we have the purple underneath this outline. There are switching places, you see that? Then if the purple go down again at this frame, I need to find this outline. Command Shift D. Move this outline up. At this point here, Command Shift D again, move this outline down. When the purple return to the center, we need to find this outline here. Command Shift D. Move this outline to beneath the purple motion text. Now let's see what the animation looks like. You see that. Our purple motion text is switching places with our outline motion text, and it's traveling down and then going back in the center. That's the animation we want. Let's go back to the main composition and see the whole thing. Move this one over a little bit. Maybe there shouldn't be a hold. Let's see. I just don't want there to be a hold. When it cut into the second frame, you see there's one-second hold. I don't want that, so I want to cut that hold, maybe cut this frame to layer in for two frames. Right now over here, it's the front of the Frame 2, I need to move forward two frames and cut this over here. Option left square bracket, cut it here. So when it comes in, the Frame 2 is already moving, it's already in motion. I want my transition to always be in motion. I don't want the transition to come in and stop there. That's not a transition. You see that? That works. Let's save the project. That's how we animate the second frame. In the next video, let's keep going to animate Frame 3[MUSIC]. 7. Special Effects: [MUSIC] Let's do a simple transition of a flash. It's very common for a kinetic type. All we need to do is go to layer and then create a new solid layer, change the color to white, rename the name to flash, and then click "Okay". Drag this layer all the way between Frame 2 and Frame 3. First of all, I want to see when we want the Frame 3 to come in, so around here, when the motion texts in the frame stop moving. Why not start moving here and we want to transition to Frame 3 over here. For this one, I need to move the start of this layer to here. Use our keyboard shortcuts, left square bracket to bring it all the way here. We need to put this flash on top of Frame 3 also. Align it with Frame 3, hit "T" on the keyboard to bring up the transparency and then hit the stopwatch to add a keyframe. Go forward 10 frames, Command Shift Right arrow and then add another keyframe, change the transparency to zero. This is going to be our transition. All we need to do is select the two keyframes and then right-click. Go to keyframe assistant, change to Easy Ease. Go to the Graph Editor. Make sure you're in the speed graph and then we just need to do a curve like this with an extreme easing, and we cut the layer at the end of the keyframes option, right square bracket. Now we have a flash transition. This is what we have. Let's play the animation again. That's what we have. Command S, save the project. Let's go to Frame 3 to animate this motion text. First of all, change the motion text into editable text. Now I need to bring the anchor point in the center. Use a trick we have hold down Command on the keyboard, double-click on this pen behind tool. For this one, I need to create a composition for the text because I need to add a special effect to it. To create a pre-composition, click on this layer and then hold down Command Shift C on the keyboard and name it to motion click "Okay" now we have a motion composition. Let's go to effects and presets panel on the right-hand side. If you don't have it, you can go to Windows and then click on this Effects & Presets. The effects were trying to search for is called CC scale wipe. Now we have CC scale wipe in the Effects & Presets panel. We can drag this one onto this motion layer we have, and then we can animate the stretch of layer. Right now is stretching upward, which is not what we want. We need the direction to be 90 degrees all the way to the right. Now I want to set a keyframe on the stretch. When its zero, that's the final state of our animation. Hit "U" on the keyboard and at the beginning, it should go all the way like this. Select the two keyframes, F9, Easy Ease, go to the Graph Editor and give it a extreme easing curve like this. Let's see the animation. That's the animation we want. That looks good. Command S for saving. Go back to the main composition. Let's see what the animation looks like. That looks nice. Looks good to me. The next thing I want to do is to do a transition from Frame 3 to Frame 4. Let's go to Frame 3. Inside the Frame 3, I want to add a Radial Fast Blur. First of all, let's go to Layer, Create, New and then Adjustment Layer. This is going to be our fast blur. Let's go to the Effects & Presets panel search for CC Radial Fast Blur. Since you already have the layer selected, let's double-click on this and then this is C effects we want to get. Basically around here, I want to animate the amount of the Fast Blur from 0-50 percent. To 50 and then let's Easy Ease the two keyframes. Give it a extreme easing curve this way. Maybe give it more time. Something like that. That works. Now, I just need to give it a bit more motion. What I want to do is I just want to animate the tracking of this motion layer. Double-click this motion composition and then go inside this layer here. Go to texts and then over here in the animate let's add a tracking. From zero, I want to line up. This is the end of our motion blur, and this is a start of our motion blur. Let's go inside. The start should be zero and then the end should be something like this. Then we can Easy Ease a keyframe. Make sure this curve is similar to the motion blur curve we had outside like this and then if we go back to Frame 3, this is the effect we want to get. I think it's too slow. There's a spot where everything is stopped. I need to tie the motion blur transition closer to this animation the front. I just need to move this motion blur all the way here when it settles and then the transition starts. Move these keyframes over here to line up with the motion blur. Maybe I need to even overlap a little bit. I can just overlap this part here. Drag this one. I think that looks better. Then we have Frame 4 coming. Let's see if I can change the scale property of this motion layer as well. Let's put a keyframe on the scale and then make it bigger and then Easy Ease the two scale keyframes. Go to the Graph Editor. Make sure we have an extreme ease like this. That works I think. That works better. Let's see the animation. That looks good. That's it with the Frame 3 animation. In the next video, we can keep going with Frame 4. 8. Range Selector: [MUSIC] In this lesson, let's keep the animation going. Let's do the frame 4 animation. From the last transition we had from frame 3, we have the motion text and then cut it like that. We want this on text to be shrinking from big to small, to transition from the last frame to give a very smooth movement. To do that, all I need to do is first of all, I need to go into the frame for composition and then select this on text, make sure we change it to editable text and then change the anchor point to the center of the text. Hold down command, double click on this, hit S on the keyboard. Bring up the scale property. I want this on to be in the center of the screen, so I need to go to the Align Panel. If you don't have the align panel, go to the windows and then choose Align. I want to use it to align horizontally and then align vertically. Make sure the on is in the center. I want it to start pretty big. Then after maybe 15 frames become smaller. Easy ease. Go to the Graph Editor. We have extreme ease like this. Maybe it's too big, make it smaller, and maybe it's too slow. I need to make it to 10 frames. Let's go back to the main composition. Let's see the transition works. Got pick up and down, that works up and down. Bigger bigger and then smaller. Save the project. That's our animation for the on in frame 4 and we can do frame 5 here altogether. The way why I want do it is I want to go into the frame 5. Right now I think the frame 4 is too plain. I want to bring this text into frame 4 as well. Let's go right-click Create and then editable text. Let's copy this one command C. Go back to the main composition and drop this text into frame 4. Go to the character and make sure we change it to purple color here. Change the anchor point to the center. Maybe move it down a little bit. This text here, maybe you can make it a little bit bigger. Move it down. I think it's too big. I need to have it over here. That's good. Now I just need to animate this text to have it randomly right on, somehow, while we have this on animation coming in. To animate this one layer, we need to add a text selector. Click on this layer and then go to Animation, Add Text Selector, Range selector. Now we have animator called Range selector added under our one-of-a-kind layer. Under the Range selector, there's a button called Add. We can click on this, choose Property and then we can add a opacity change to the range collector. First we need to do is to change the opacity down to zero without adding any keyframes. Then now, once we have the opacity changed to zero, once we drag the starting point of the Range selector. Let's turn off this on because it's overlapping. It's covering my text layer. Zoom in. Once we have the starting percentage from 0-100, you can see it's actually lighting our text on. This is the animation we need. I've set a key to let it start from zero and then 100 over here. However, we want the text to come in randomly instead of just one after another. We need to go into the Advanced tab and then turn on this random nicer. This way, you can see our text is randomly coming onto the screen. But right now, I feel like it's too slow. In order to keep the same pace as we saw on animation here, I want to also animate the offset. I want the offset to be zero at first and then maybe offset it to 40 percent. Then maybe offset back to negative 10 percent. Then go forward 30 percent, offset it back to negative 20, and then offset it to maybe 20 percent. I just need this text to randomly coming up and then stay there like this. I think that works. Let's see the whole animation. That works. That's it for frame 4 animation. 9. Track Matt: Remember we had the frame for animation? This one of a kind layer, and now I can copy it. Command C, go back to the main composition. I want this Frame 5 to have the same one of a kind layer animation. I can delete the old one we had. Just uses new one. Then make sure we change the color to white. Something like that. Now, all we need to do is to animate this on trend. We also have a very subtle background over there. Maybe I can scale it up a little bit, put it in the center. Then for the first two layers, let's right click "Create" editable text and make sure we have the anchor point in the center. Let's also make sure this on text is in the center of the frame and the trend is also in the center of the frame. It's going to start something like this. Once we have that on settles from the previous frame, we're going to cut to this frame here. We have the on here, and then we have position property. Let's animate this on, travel to the left and then let's have this trend. Hit P on the keyboard. Let's have the trend to travel to the right. I think something like that. Then let's easy ease the keyframe. Go to the graph editor. For this one let's do a curve like this. I think I want the trend now to pop on the screen. I want it to slide over to the right. It should start from somewhere around here. Then I can easy ease a key frame. Go get a extreme easing curve like this. Maybe let's see if I changed the curve this one to something like this. I think that works. Now we just need a track mats. Let's go to the Layer, New, Solid. Then we can draw a track mattes on this solid layer, this shape here. Turn it back on. This is our track matte. Make sure this track matte is traveling with the on layer so I need to go to the parent link then parent it to the on layer. We have this track matte on top of the trend, and the trend is going to be using a alpha matte. Let's turn off the track matte. It's already turned off. Let's see the animation. Yeah, that works I think. Command S save the project. Let's go back to the main composition. I think that works. Command S for saving the project. Let's go to zero second and preview the whole thing. Now we already have our five second finished. This is our first five second. Let's preview this again. Let's say with our first five second in the next video, we're going to continue with animation and we'll animate Frame 6. 10. Advanced Range Selector 1: In this lesson, let's work on Frame 6 and also the transition from Frame 5-6. Let's go back to Frame 5 that we already animated before. Once we have the animation settles and stops, we just need to have these two lines go on a separate way. I want this on-trend to come to the left, should have the screen and then this layer down here, shoot to the right of the screen. First, let's hit P on the keyboard. Put a keyframe on the position property, and then Command Shift right arrow. Shoot it off like this. Now, I just need to Easy Ease these two keyframes. Right-click Keyframe Assistant, Easy Ease, and then I can drag keyframes, something like this. Yeah, that works. The next thing I want to do is to move these two layers all the way outside from the left. Right now I've got this ON layer. I go to a track matte. I got this TREND layer. If I change the position of the ON layer, let's see if I click on the layer and then the trend, put a keyframe on the position, and then move both off-screen. Yeah, that works like this. Now I will just need to go to the Graph Editor. Change the curve to an easing curve like this. Now you can see they're traveling on separate directions, that works. Let's go back to the main composition and then once they travels over here, I can use Frame 6 to cover the whole thing. Now we transitioned to Frame 6, that's good. Let's double-click Frame 6 and then we can animate the Frame 6. First of all, let's right-click the Skills layer Create Convert to Editable Text. Make sure we have the anchor point in the center. I can even change this one, maybe make the text bigger. Then I want to find my Align layer try to make it in the center. Yeah, that looks good to me. Let's try use a Null Object, go to Layer New and then Null Object. Lets us parent this Skills layer to the Null Object. Now we have a null and then I want to change the position property, animate it a little bit, and also the scale property. Maybe like this. Shrink, move from here, a slight move to the left, and then when it settles, shrink down. That's the full animation. We have F9, Easy Ease. Let's do the position-easing curve first. Let's do this extreme curve and then let's go back to the scale property do another curve. I need easing on both ends so I need a curve like this. Just try this. I think that works. Command S for saving the project. Another thing, I just need to animate this text here using a Range Selector. Again, let's go to the "Animation Tab" and add a Range Selector. First of all, what I need is a stroke opacity. Let's go to the range selector and click on this ad here. We have a fill color opacity and then stroke color. Let's go to the stroke color. Use this opacity here. Then what I need to do is I need to change it down to zero and animate the start here. It's hard to see because we have our fill color right now. In this case, I want to add another selector. Let's go to animation and then choose another Range Selector. In this one, let's add a property, fill color opacity. Let's do the fill color opacity first, change everything down to zero, and then we can animate the start percentage to having something like this come up. Let's do the start at zero, go forward 10 frames, change it to 100 percent. From 0-100 percent, easing the keyframes. Then we can do like a curve like this. Maybe it's too fast let's drag these two further away from each other. Yeah, I think that works. I think the animation looks good and then we can copy the keyframes. Command C, go to this other Range Selector and then Command V, paste it in. Move the fill color opacity forward a couple of frames. I just want to see where's my stroke opacity. I might need to add a stroke right now. I don't think I have a stroke. Click on the skills layer, go to character. Over here in the stroke, I need to add a white stroke like this. You see we have a fill color in white and then stroke color in whites. Now you can see we have a stroke that goes around the Skills Text. In the Range Selector, we have our stroke opacity animating on first and then we have our fill opacity emitting a couple frames later, so we can achieve an effect similar to this one. Let's see the animation. I think we can move this skill down a bit further. I think that looks good. You see that? Basically, we're using the Range Selector and then change the opacity down to zero and then only animating the starting percentage to have the stroke right down first. Then a couple of frames later we have the fill color right on. That's how we achieve this effect. Let's go back to the main composition. Let's see the animation here. That looks good. Let's save the project. That's it with our Frame 6 animation. 11. Advanced Range Selector 2: In this lesson, we're going to animate Frame 7. Since we already have the Frame 6 ready here, I think when the skill text shrinks here, I want it to transition to the Frame 7, so I'll cut it here. In case you didn't understand the lesson from Frame 6, we're going to animate Frame 7 the same way as Frame 6 although this time we have almost a dark-colored background. But we're going to do essentially the same thing just to demonstrate how the range selector works and how to animate stroke first and then fill color second. Let's go into Frame 7 and then choose this master layer. Right-click create, convert to editable text. Then make sure we have the anchor point in the center here. Hold down Command, double-click on this pen behind tool. Now I just want to make sure we have this text in the center of the frame. Let's try to find the align panel, which is also under Windows, align and then uses align horizontally and then align vertically. I can maybe even make this one a little bigger like this. First of all, what we want to make sure is we need to make sure this one has a stroke color around the border. Let's go to character. If you don't have character open, you can go to Windows and then choose character here. Right now you can see I only have a fill color on this master text. I need to add a stroke color. Click on the stroke, and then use the color picker to set it to white. Click on this white color here. Now you can see I have both a stroke and a fill color. The next thing I want to do is to add a selector. To do that, I can click on this layer, go to animation, add text selector, a range selector. For the range selector, after I add it, right now there's nothing to it. There's only a start and end position percentage, and there's also an offset. In order to work with a range selector, we need to also add another property. That's where we need to click this Add button, add a property. First we need to do is to add a fill color opacity. If we add a fill color opacity, and without doing anything, if I change the starting point, nothing happens because everything is 100 percent. However, if I change the fill opacity to zero, once I change the starting percentage, you can see that range selector is controlling my text and have each letter right on from zero percent opacity to 100 percent opacity. This is how I control the fill opacity of each letter using the range selector starting percentage. If I add a Keyframe here at the start from zero percent, and then after a couple of frames, I'll change it to 100 percent. Now, I have each letter right on individually. This is our animation. All I need to do is select both Keyframes, Easy Ease, and then I just need to do a curve like this. You know what, wrong direction. I need to do a curve like this to Ease it out. That looks good. Now I have my fill opacity animation. Another thing I need to do is to add the stroke color opacity animation. In that case, I need to add another range selector. Go to animation, add text selector, range. This time we need to add a stroke color opacity. As I said before, if we keep the stroke opacity to 100 percent, nothing is going to change. But however, if I change it to zero percent, then if I toggle between zero percent of the starting points to 100 percent, you can see I'm writing on this text only the outline part of the text. That's how we animate the outline. Now I just need to add a starting Keyframe at zero second and then change it to 100 percent at the end. Easy Ease a Keyframe, go to the Graph Editor. We're still in the Speed Graph. Change this curve like this. Now I have both a fill color right on and a stroke color right on. However, they're overlapping so you can not see the stroke anymore. That's why I need to delay the starting point of the fill color by a couple of seconds, a couple of frames, four frames. Now, since I delayed the start of the fill color, you can see the stroke first and then the fill color second. Maybe four frames is too much, I delay it for two frames. I think that looks good. That's how we achieve this complex animation with only four Keyframes. Let's go back to the main composition. Let's see the whole animation here. Maybe three frames, because right now I still cannot see the stroke. Maybe it's traveling too fast. I need to give it more time. That looks better to me. Cut here. Also for this text here, I want it to shrink a little bit from the start here, maybe go forward a little bit and then shrink down. Easy Ease a Keyframe and then change the curve. Something like this. Let's see the transition. That works. Then once it settles, I will just make it grow bigger again. Scale property, it's going to be easy over here and then grows like this. Go to the Graph Editor. That works. That's our Frame 7 animation. Like that. Then over here, we're going to cut it to Frame 8. I feel Frame 7 is too slow. I need to bring the transition earlier. Once it settles, it will transition out right away. Give it some overlap even. Over here. Yeah, that works. That's it with our Frame 7 animation. 12. Become Motion Insiders: Before we continue, I want to share with you an exciting news. Motion design courses just became more affordable at motion circles. With our motion insider membership for as low as $7 a month, you will get unlimited access to our top tier motion design courses, trusted by over 50,000 students worldwide. Time to elevate your motion design skills to become the best animators you can be. As an insider, you will also receive complimentary project files from all of our Motion Circles YouTube tutorials. And enjoy an exclusive 25% discount on all the other incredible animation projects from other artists in our project file shop. Don't miss out on this opportunity to level up your animation skills while becoming part of our vibrant community. Join us today at motion circles.com and unleash your creative potential. 13. Complex Animation: [MUSIC] In this lesson, let's animate Frame 8. But before we do that, I think I forgot something for Frame 7. Right now, it's only got a white color text coming up, which is not a very good transition between our Frame 7 and Frame 8. So I think what I want to do is before it goes up, let's delete these two keyframes, I want it to shrink down first. Let's cut it and duplicate it. Command Shift D, and then let's just do a small scale property change. I want to change the color to this one, to the purple. Let's find the purple color. This is a purple. Let's grab this color here, Command C, and then go back to our Frame 7 over here. I want to change this one to a purple color and then turn off the stroke, hit on this icon here to turn off the stroke. Now we only have a purple master layer. I just wanted to cut smaller and smaller, maybe five frames, and then cut it again. This cut, and then start growing like this. That will be our animation for Frame 7. Cut, and then we have it grow like this to transition it to Frame 8. That works. Then we have the Frame 8 here. Let's go inside the Frame 8, make sure we have all these converted to editable text, and then have all the anchor point in the center. This one, I want to animate the same way as we did before with a CC scale wipe effects, and I need to Command Shift C, make this a composition, click "Okay". I want to parent these two layers into this middle layer and now I want this middle air to come in from bigger to smaller. Easy, ease to two keyframes. Give it a easing curve like this. That works. Then now I just need to copy, go to the main composition. Remember this effect we have in Frame 3, I just need to copy this effect here. Copy the four keyframes, Command C, and then go to Frame 8, paste it in. Make sure we change direction to 90 degrees. I also want the animation to start already when it first come in, so I need to make sure this first keyframe of the stretch property is all the way in the start, so when it comes in, it's already animating. Something like that. Go back to the main composition. Let's see the animation. That works. That looks nice. Command S for saving the project. Now what we need to do is I want to go inside this motion design Command C for copy the layer, and then go outside Command V, to change it to accelerate. Now we have an accelerates. Change this layer to a white color like that and then I can copy the other two layers. Change those to accelerate as well, but then change, let me turn off these. For this one, I want my stroke color to be in this purple color so go down to the layer style, and then go to the Stroke, use this color picker, choose the purple color. Then this one as well when I change the color to purple. Now we have three layers of accelerate, and then three layers of motion design. I just wanted to do something similar to the start of the animation. Remember we had before. I want to use a null object to control all of these layers. Make sure we parent this Layer 4 and Layer 7 to the null object because we already have this outline layer parent to the middle layer, so we don't have to parent the outline to the null object. Again, if I change the position of the null object, you can see I'm already changing everything. Once we have this one settles in, I just want to separate dimensions, animate the y position, and then bring down the accelerate layer. Easy ease keyframe. You know what? This one. Let's do the value graph, and then skew AS curve here. Something like that, that works. Then once we have this here, I just want this accelerate layer to come in one after another. Basically, I want this one to not come up, change the starting points of these two layers at this point, use the keyboard shortcut, left square brackets. Then we have this. One layer here and then the last one is going to be here, so this one right here. I want them to cut in like this. The third one come in first and then the middle one, and then the top one. That works. I want them to cut in like this. After they're cutting like this, and then I want the top and bottom to disappear like this and then I want the middle one to grow bigger like this. Maybe with a hold keyframe, just like a cut. Right now, they are a smooth transition, but I want to have a whole keyframe, so select the three keyframe, right-click, toggle hold keyframe. I want it disappear before it changes the size, so like this. Once the middle layer change size, the top, and bottom layer disappears like this. Something like this, maybe even bigger. That works for me. Let's go back to the main composition, let's see what it looks like. That works. That's when we cut to Frame 9 like this. That's why we cut to Frame 9 over here. Command S for saving the project. That's it for Frame 8 animation. 14. Complex Transition: [MUSIC] In this lesson let's animate frame 9. Now, we already have this ACCELERATE text growing up and up. Now, we cut to frame 9. Double-click in the composition. Let's right-click "Create Editable Text". The two are disappeared. What we can do is just to duplicate the one at the bottom, command D, and then duplicate it again, command D. That's our layout. Now, we need to do is first put the anchor point in the center of the text. I need to move V3 further away and then change this one, maybe. Make sure it's in the center of the frame. Then Command Shift C for pre-comp. Click "OK". Remember the scale wipe effect we had before in frame 3, let's copy that again. This one. Go to frame 9, just put it here, and make sure the degree is 90 degree like this. You know what? At first, I think I want to keep it bigger like this, 160 percent. Then once it settles I want to use a toggle hold keyframe. Once it settles like this we're going to have these background come in like this. That works. Then a couple of frames later we're going to change this ACCELERATE layer to CAREERS. Basically, just cut it. Square bracket here, cut it. We have ACCELERATE and then this one should be CAREERS, C. We'll cut it here. Maybe it's too slow. We need to cut it here with a CAREER and then one, two, three, four, five, five frames later add a keyframe. One, two, three, four, five. Make it bigger. One, two, three, four, five. Make it all the way as big as this middle text here. That works. Then I can change the three keyframes to Toggle Hold Keyframes. Now, I just need a null object to control the size of everything. Hit Scale property and then go forward 10 frames. Make it bigger like this. Make sure we ease them and then go to the speed graph, change it to a curve like this. It's easing out. Then if we go back to the main composition, let's see the animation. I want the stretch to be happening even after the scale change of this ACCELERATE texts. There's a continuous movement. You see that after it becomes smaller, this part is still stretching so it's got a smoother transition to it. Then over here I want us some overlap. Maybe we can transition out. Once the career overlap at our line we can transition out. Then once the CAREER text overlap the outline I also want to turn off the outline. Option rest square brackets, go backward one frames, command left arrow, option rest square bracket, cut it. When the CAREER occupy the whole space the outline disappears. That works. Command S for saving the project. That's it with our frame 9 animation. 15. Strong Ending Frame: [MUSIC] In this lesson, let's work on the final frame of the storyboard, which is Frame 10. As you can see here, we already have this transition from Frame 9 with the careers texts coming up bigger and bigger. We're going to cut from here and having the motion circles line coming in, shrinking from big to small. Double-click on this Frame 10 composition. Let's first animate this motion circles text. Let's do the same thing, select both layers and right-click Create Editable Text. Now we just need to put the anchor point in the center, hold down command, double-click on the pen behind tool. Right now, the website is pretty small so I want to make it bigger. Hit S on the keyboard, pull up the scale property, and then we can make it bigger. Something like that. Now we're going to animate the scale property of this motion circles. Hit S on the keyboard, add a keyframe, and then move forward a couple of frames. Make this text larger, maybe like this. We can select both keyframes and then right-click Keyframe Assistant, Easy Ease. Let's go to the graph editor, let's make an easing curve like this, that's good. Then let's see the animation, that looks good. Then after it almost settles, I want this text here, this website come from the top coming down. I'll use the position property, hit P on the keyboard, set a keyframe, and then move it further a couple of frames, drag this one up. We have a position change from top to down, easy ease is the keyframe. Go to the graph editor, we can do a curve like this. Now I just need to cut the layer a couple of frames after the keyframe. Maybe here, use the keyboard shortcut option, left square bracket to cut it here. The text will come in like this. Maybe one more frame, go for one more frame, option left square bracket. This is the animation we have, let's go back to the main composition and see the animation. I think it works, I can probably make this one come in earlier. When the motion circles almost settles, I can bring up the website. That looks good, command S for saving the project. Now another thing I want to do is, first of all, when it comes in, I don't want this color to come in right away. I want the color to come in from the right-hand side coming to the left. In order to do that, we need to change this text here into the purple color. Let's try to change the text to purple first. Hit on this layer and then use the color picker, pick a purple color or a pink color. Then I want this filled background to come in from the right. Basically, maybe around 10 frames, I want this color fill to come in from the right. Hit P on the keyboard. Add a position property go forward 10 frames and then add another position property, drag it all the way here. That's my animation, it goes from right to left. I just need to easy ease these two keyframes and then give it a easing curve. That looks good. When the color background comes in, I want the text to become in white color. All I need to do is to duplicate this layer here, command D, and then change this text into a white color. After I have this text in white, I want to use the gradient fill as a track matte for this text layer. Duplicate the gradient fill, put it on top of the white text, and change the track matte over here of the white text to Alpha matte. If you don't have the track matte option here you can click on the second button at the corner over here, is going to give you this track matte option. Basically, when the color fill comes in is going to change this text color into white, like that. Let's go back to the main comp and see our animation. Now, I'm just missing a black background here. I need to go back to this composition, go to layer, new, and then solid, add a black background underneath, and then go back again. Maybe not even black, I think this is a dark blue color. I need to copy this dark blue background, command C and then go to Frame 10. Add it in the back, delete the black background that I added just now. Let's see the animation. That works. I think that looks good. Another thing I want to add is I want to add some flashes like the first one that we have in the Frame 1, just a couple of solid color flashes. Command D, duplicate this solid layer, put it on top and then cut it to two frames. Basically, move the starting point of this layer to this point here, use the shortcut left square bracket and then go forward one frame. Command right arrow, and then cut it option red square bracket. Now I have this color fill just for two frames. Hit U on the keyboard. Now I have it outside of the frame so I need to pull it back inside the frame. Just delete this keyframe stopwatch, and then move this one over onto the frame. Go to the align panel, I want to make sure it's right in the center. Then that flashes one time, I'll duplicate that. Command D, I'll just let it flash maybe three times, let's see. Maybe two times is enough. That looks good. Over here, the third time, I want this whole thing to flash into black and white. What I want to do is go to layers, new, and then add an adjustment layer. Cut it for two frames, left square bracket, and then go forward one frame. Command right arrow, and then use option right square bracket. On this adjustment layer, I'll name it black and white, and then go to the effects and presets panel. Let's search for an effect called tint, double-click, I swap the color. This is going to be our black and white frame, and now I just need to add a curves effect. Search curve, and then we can bring up the contrast to something like this. Maybe drag one more frame. It's going to flash to black and white all of a sudden. Let's see the animation from the start. I think that works. Command S for saving the project. I also don't want this text to always stay in still in this frame for the last couple of seconds. I want the whole thing to drift in a little bit, moving smaller and smaller. Go to this motion circle main text, which is the white one. Go to scale property, hit S on the keyboard. It's going to last for maybe three seconds. I want to add a scale change to 130 percent. You see we can see this purple text underneath. I need to cut this layer once the white text come in. I need to cut from here, select this layer, option restore bracket to cut the layer. Then I also want to parent the website onto this white text so they're shrinking altogether. That works. Go to the main comp and see the animation. I think it's too fast, and also it's lasting for five seconds. I need to pull this keyframe all the way over here and then I want to change it to maybe one percent. It's not moving too fast, let's see. I think that works. That's it with all our animation, let's preview the thing from the start. That's our full animation. In the next video, I'm going to show you how to add a glitch effect and also a couple of other secondary animation. 16. Glitch Lines: [MUSIC] In this video, let's add some extra elements to make the whole thing more polished. The first thing we need to add is a glitch line overlaid on top of the whole video. To do that, let's go to the layers panel and then go to new. Let's add a solid layer. We can do a black color. Click "Okay" and call this glitch lines. Let's go to the Effects and Presets panel, search for Fractal Noise over here, double-click on this one. This is a fractal noise effect we have. We need to change some of the setting in order to get the glitch line effects. The first thing we need to change is to change over here in the noise type, change it to block. Then the contrast we need to pull up the contrast. The brightness we need to bring it down. Make it very subtle. Then go to transform and check this uniform scaling. We want to change the width to 1,000 or 10,000 and also change the height to one. Now, we get a bunch of lines over here. You see that? If we manipulate the contrast, we can tone down the whole thing a little bit more. If I zoom in, I want to see it more closely. Let's go to the sub setting. For the influence percentage, let's change the influence to zero. It's going to give me all these straight lines over here. For the sub scaling, the least we can do is 10. Complexity. I think it doesn't matter. We can keep it at 6. Basically this is what we want. We just need to manipulate the brightness a little bit more. Tone it all the way down. Then you can see the lines are very subtle here. Over here in the glitch line blending mode, let's change it to screen. Now you can see we got these lines overlayed on top of our animation. However, they're not animating right now. I just need to go to the evolution options and then go to the random seed. If I change the random seed, you can see there's all these animation happening. I think the lines are too much, so I need to change the brightness a little bit more, maybe tone it down even further to maybe negative 250. Now we can see only a couple of lines are left. Over here in the random seed, I want to add an expression, hold down Option in Mac, and then click on the Stopwatch. Over here, we can type in times 20. Let's see if that works. Can you tell there's very subtle glitching lines animation over there. Maybe it's too subtle. That works better. Or maybe time times 20 is too fast. Let's do time times 15 or 10. After we have this, another thing we want to add is go to Effects and Presets panel. I want to add a posterize time effect. If you search for a posterize, there's this posterize time, double-click on this. Basically it's changing your frame rate from 24 frames per second into anything else. For now, we want to do 10 frames per seconds, there's more of a glitching look to the fractal noise. I think that works. Let's preview the whole animation. Now you can see we have a glitch line over there in the background. That's it for the glitching line. In the next video, I'm going to show you how to add other secondary elements to the video. 17. Secondary Animation 1: [MUSIC] In this video, let's add some secondary animation to the whole introduction video. Let's go to the Project panel over here and then hit on this, Create a New Composition. For this one, we can name it to animate as circles. Keep everything the same click ''Okay''. Now we can draw a circle with the tools on top. Hold down this rectangle tool, go to the Ellipse tool, and then we can draw a circle, hold down Command and Option and Shift to constrain the property. Then you can use Spacebar to move the position of the circle while you are drawing. Release it. This is our circle. For the circle, I want it to be in the absolute center of the composition. I'm going to the Align tool, align it vertically and horizontally. I need to have a stroke to the circle instead of a fill. To turn off this fill, I can hold down Option on the keyboard, click on this fill three times 1,2,3. Now, I only have a stroke around the circle. Let's go to the Ellipse tool, go to the stroke, and then I want to change the Line cap. Instead of Butt cap, I want to change it to Round cap. This is going to be our first circle. Let's go to scale property. Let's make this smaller. Then I want to change the Stroke width to 15. Let's duplicate this circle, command D go to Scale property, make it bigger. However, change the stroke to thinner, maybe seven. Duplicate this circle again, make it even bigger and then change the stroke to 20. Then duplicate this circle again. Hit ''S'' make it a little bit bigger. Change the stroke width to six. Now, I just need to make two more, command D, make it bigger, change to a thicker width. The last one, command D, make it bigger and then change the stroke to make this thinner. This is going to be our circle that we have. Now we need to animate this circle here. Let's go to the first circle, let's add a Trim path effects. I can manipulate this ending point over here to animate the circle on and off. The way to animate this is, I want to add two key frames, start and end, both from zero and then go forward 15 frames or 20 frames and then change the starting and ending to 100 percent. Easy Ease two key frames go to the graph editor. Drag these curves like this. Now I just need to delay the ending portion of the circle. If I solo this layer over here, you can see the animation. I just drag the ending key frames all the way to the right and you can see the animation like this. It's coming up and then wiping on and then wiping off, this is the animation we need. We can copy all the key frames command C and then paste them all on these different circles. Command V. Let's see the animation. They're all traveling at the same time. However, this is not what I want, I want them to travel at different time. I want to change the offset of these key frames. Basically select everything and then over here in the Search bar, type in offset. Now we can see the offset over here. Basically what I want to do is for the first two, I want to give it offset like this, the second, the third circle, and the fourth one, I'll give it an offset like this. Then the last two I offset it like this. They're starting at a different position. Let's see the animation now. That looks better and more complex. Command S, save the project. I think that's it, that's what I want. We can use this composition to place it into our animation. Let's see where we should place it. How about here? If we have our circle animation here, make it bigger. I don't want the circle to build like all the way so that we have as full circle on the screen. Let's go into this composition. Hit ''U'' on the keyboard. I think I need to move these end value key frames a little bit to the left to have something like this. The circle is always changing, we don't have a full circle built on the screen and animation is shorter, it's faster. I think that works, like that. We should have something in this frame here because this frame is pretty boring and we just need the color to be in this purple. Let's go to the Effects and Presets panel search for a fill effect. Take this purple color. These two are all the way together, so I need to delete the first one, it's too much. I'll just put it on this on-screen here and make it bigger. To tie Frame 4 and Frame 5 better, that works. This is a circle animation as a secondary animation. In the next video, I'm going to show you another secondary animation. 18. Secondary Animation 2: [MUSIC] In this video, let's animate another extra elements. Let's go to the Project panel here and then click on this "Create a new composition". We can name this one, animated lines, and then click "Okay". Now I just need to go to this pen tool and then draw a straight line horizontally. That looks pretty good. Then I want to duplicate this Command D, move it down a little bit and then change the stroke width to maybe 20 pixels. Also, I need to change the Butt Cap, go to the Stroke, and then change the Butt Cap to Round Cap. The same with the first one. Just need to change the Butt Cap to Round Cap. Move these two closer and then I need to duplicate another one, Command D. Make this one thinner, maybe 13. Then duplicate another one. I think that looks good, and this is our lines. We need to animate the lines the same way as we animate the circle. We can actually go to the animated circle and see if I just copy this trim path keyframes Command C, and then go to the animated lines paste it in, Command V. Let's see the animation. I think that looks even better. We don't even need to do anything ourselves. We can just copy these two keyframes. Let's copy the keyframes onto all of them, and that's our animation. That actually looks good. Then I need to select the four layers command Shift C and name it Line 1. Now I just need to duplicate it to Command D and then go to rotation, give it a 90 degree rotation. This is going to be our cross or the x sine animation. If I go to the scale, I can make it smaller, maybe 80 percent for both. Let's see if I copy another one, this one here. Then go to "Scale", turn off this constraint property. Put a negative on the x scale to turn it around. Then this one, I can do the same thing Command D go to "Scale", checkoff this constraint and then negative over here. I just need to move the position around to better align everything. Give it a better alignment. I think that looks good. That's our animation over here. That looks good. Command S for saving the projects. Let's go to the main composition. Let's add in our animated lines over here. This one, we don't have to be this big, maybe 20 percent scale, and put it on the side here. Maybe I want us to start all the way over here. Cut this layer option left square brackets. Duplicate this one, put it over here. I'm trying to find where we can put the big one Command S for saving the project. We can actually try to put the big one over here, let's try if it works. Let's drag this one animated lines and then align it over here. Let's use R for rotation. Let's put it over here. I think that works. We're going to add a bunch of other things later on to make it more polished. But right now, I think this one that x sine over here, I think it works. I want it to start with this frame here, so cut it over here like that. That works. Then we can do another one here, Command D. Let's do this one on the right-hand side. That works. For the accelerate over here, we can do the circle, drag the circle down. Put it on top of the Frame 9. I think that works. The last one for the motion circle, we can still use these animated lines here. I'm just randomly adding these animated lines and animated circles to give it more variety, and then give some extra elements to my whole video. That works. I can even add the animated circle here and make it smaller in this frame here. This is cubic. I can actually change it to maybe 20 percent. Then add one maybe over here, change it to 10 percent. That works. Let's see the animation for now. I think this is too small, over here. I can still add some little circles, I'll copy these two circles Command D. Now let's preview our full animation. It's a bit slow right now, but I can render it later on and then show you the full animation, but you get the idea. We just need to randomly place in the animated lines and the animated circles in various sizes and then various places to give more interests to the whole video. I think now the last thing I want to do is to add some subtle background, outline text, just like the first scene here, we have an animation text sadly in the background. I just want to add those details in, like this background is not that plain. Let's find this frame here, Frame 6. I want to duplicate the scale Command D and then get rid of all the keyframes and animations. Just want to make this one bigger, and then go to the character property. Delete the text animator, and then delete the fill color like that, and then make it all the way up big and big in the background. Something like that. Then change the stroke to maybe 0.1, and maybe change the transparency to 50 percent. I think that looks good. How about that? Maybe 25 percent? I think that looks better. You see that 25 percent opacity at the background, just give the background a bit more texture. That looks good. Then I just need to add it to the last frame, which is a final frame here, Frame 10. Duplicate this one, hit "U" on the keyboard, delete all the key frames. Hit "S", make it super big. Then change the stroke color to white. Here we go, just make it big. Change the stroke width to 0.1. Let's do the circle part like this is a circle, make it even bigger. Then change the transparency to 25 percent or 30 percent. I think that works. That's it with our final full animation. In the next video, I'm going to show you how to export it, and I'll show you the exported MP4 format video as a whole. 19. Export: [MUSIC] In this video, I'm going to show you how to export this into a MP4 format video. We already have our full animation done. To export the video, let's go to Composition, and then let's choose this to Add to Render Queue. After I click on "Add to Render Queue", you can see over here we can choose the output module. Click on this "High-quality." Normally we would upload it into a QuickTime format, go to the format options. We will choose this Apple ProRes 422. Click "Okay". Then everything stayed the same click "Okay". We can choose a folder, kinetic type animation folder, and then let's name this one to outputs. Click on "Save" and now we can hit on this Render button. You can see it's rendering our video. Now we have our video ready. Let's go back to the folder and then watch it. Over here in the output folder, let's double-click on this one. This is going to be our final video. However, it's in MOV formats. If you want it to be encoded into the MP4 format, we need to download the Adobe Media Encoder. I'm going to show you how to do that. But first, let's watch this 15-second for animation. [MUSIC] Yeah, that's our 15-second for animated intro. If you want to change this one to MP4 format, we need to open Adobe Media Encoder. Just go ahead and open Adobe Media Encoder. With the Adobe Media Encoder open let's drop this MOV format video into this queue here. Over here, we can actually change how we want to encode it. We can change it to H264, which is a very common format for MP4 video. Over here, we don't have to change anything, in the setting, we can change a output folder. It's going to be the same folder within this output. Click on "Save" and then hit on this green play button. Now, it's going to encode our MOV format video into an MP4 format video. [MUSIC] 20. Congrats: Congratulations, you made it. Now it's time to finish up your project and share with me and your fellow students. Make sure to post your video into the project panel to get feedbacks and inspire other students. This is a hard one, but now you've conquered it. If there's anything that you're not clear of, feel free to ask me any questions you have and I'm here to help you. If you can remember some of the techniques taught in here, you can always go back and refresh your memories. I also have a few other courses that you can check out to learn different techniques to improve your animation skills. Thanks so much for taking this course. I hope to see you in my other videos. Cheers.