Five Essential Text Animations in Five Minutes - A Short Motion Graphics Class

1. Introduction: In this short motion graphics class, I'll show you how to animate five essential text animations in under 5 minutes. For more thorough lessons, check out my longer form content. Can't wait to see what you guys mean. 2. Getting Started/Class Project: Complete this class, you'll need Adobe After effects, Adobe Media encoder to Export. You can download a completed class project file on the project and resources page. Your class project is to take what you've learned and create your own text animation. 3. Slide in Text: Toggle down our layer. Click the arrow beside animate. Choose position. Change our wide position value to 100%. Toggle down the range selector, Toggle down the advanced. We'll change the shape to ramp up. Set our offset value to negative 100, press the stopwatch. Move over 20 frames on the timeline. Change our value to 100%, and we'll change our E's low value to 90%. This will make the animation smoother. Select our animator one, go to property, and add an opacity. Change the opacity value to 0%, and there we go. 4. Type in Text: Toggle down our layer. Click the arrow beside animate. Choose opacity. We'll change our opacity value to zero. Toggle down our range selector. Press the stopwatch to put a key frame. Move over 30 frames on the timeline, and change our offset value to 100. As you can see, we're not quite there yet. Oggle down our advanced layer and change the smoothness to 0%. There we go. 5. Scale in Text: We'll open up our layer. Beside animate, we'll choose scale. Unlink our scale. Change the y value to zero. Toggle down our range selector, toggle down advanced. Beside shape, we'll choose ramp up. Change our E's low value to 90%. We'll go to our offset value, change it to negative 100%, press the stopwatch, move over 30 frames on the timeline, set our value to 100%. We'll toggle down more options, and we'll change our grouping alignment value to negative 35. Now it scales from the middle. 6. Tracking: Open up our layer. Click the arrow beside animate, and we'll choose tracking. Press the stopwatch beside tracking amount. Move over 30 frames on the timeline. Change our tracking amount to ten. Change the name of our layer. We could also add a scale animator. Press the stopwatch at the beginning of the timeline. Move over 30 frames, and we'll change it to a value of 110. There we go. 7. Fade in Text: Toggle down our layer. Click the arrow beside animate. Choose opacity. Here we'll turn our opacity value to 0%. Toggle down the range selector. Press the stop watch. Move over 90 frames on the timeline. Change our offset value to 100%, Toggle down our advanced layer, and change our based on value to words. 8. Export: Here's a quick tutorial on how to export your animation. First, we're going to want to trim our work area by pressing the N key or dragging the work area. In this case, I want it to be 2 seconds long. Once we've done that, we can go up to file, export, add to Adobe Media Encoder queue. Once Media Encoder is open, we can click on these links to bring up the properties. I'm going to choose H 0.264. And beside the presets tab, I'm going to choose YouTube ten ADP. We can click, and then we can click the Green arrow to Export. 9. Outro: Congratulations. Now you can post your project to the project gallery. 10. BONUS LESSON - Intro Animations: I wanted to make a bonus lesson for students that are interested in how I created the intro animations. So this one is really easy. I just duplicated the layer three times, changed the color of the text, and then I added a stroke. And then I offset each layer the timeline. But the next one, I created a boil effect by creating a new solid layer, adding the turbulent noise effect. I animated the random seed with a simple time times ten expression. Then I made that layer invisible. And to the text layer, I added a displacement map effect. Change the displacement map layer to displace and make sure effects and masks is chosen. This one is really easy. All I did was add a rough and edges effect to the text layer, change some of the settings, and then again, I animated the random seed value with a time times four expression. Then I duplicated the rough and edges. And again, I changed some of the settings. And that's what gave it this look as it animates in. And for the last animation, I precomposed the text layer, and then I duplicated the pre comp three times, and I added a shift channels effect to each of the pre comps. And I only left one color turned on on each layer. And then I took the layers, and I changed the position on the green layer, and I added a wiggle effect on the blue layer. Then I changed the blending modes of the red and green layer to add. Then I created an adjustment layer, and I added a simple glow effect.