Logo Animation in Adobe After Effects

1. Course Introduction: Hi friends. I'm Batu Han from Libra Studio. It is exciting for me to share my eight years of motion graphics experience with you. The subject of our course is logo animation. Logo animations are divided into two as customized logo animations and logo animation templates. Let me show you examples of logo animation templates that I have prepared myself. Now let's take a look at personalized logo animations. In this course, we will create a personalized logo animation. In this way, you will learn many logo animation techniques. For our course project, we will create a logo animation for the Skill Share logo. I want you to add your own interpretation to the logo animation and share the animation with me. 2. Class Project - Logo Animation "Skillshare": Hi guys, We're going to start a logo animation. I'm going to load the lessons piece by piece so you don't get bored. When you finish each lesson, save the project and proceed from where you stayed for the new lesson. Let's start by creating a composition. You can adjust the quality to four K if you like. I choose 1920 x 1080, 60 FPS. The more FPs, the smoother the image. But too many frames can mean too much effort. This rectangle is now our canvas. I'm clicking on the title Action Safe to use the composition properly. Let's look at the graphs we're going to use. Now, I've found a few icons and we can design them ourselves using an illustrator. But we don't have to deal with it because animation is our primary objective. I'm thinking of using some of the logos and icons. I add the music note icon to the composition and I start making the stroke animation. I'm going to mask the lines of the graphic. That's how I do the animation. I'm picking up my pen and starting to mask it. It's important to be careful that the lines turn smoothly. Now that I'm done masking, I can add the stroke effect to the layer. I'm checking the all masks box. Increase the brush size until the icon is lost to produce a proper effect. Note the settings here reveal original image. I'm creating an animation like a trim paths animation with the start part. For this, the start value must be 0-100 The animation has taken place, but there are some disruptions. I'm removing these distortions by changing the slope or position of the lines. Now I'm going to select the key frames and soften the motion using the graph editor. When I turn on the graphics editor, please take a screenshot and then use these graphics in your animations. So you'll understand the logic easily. I'm adding a round shape behind the icon. When you literally want to get the circle, you have to press the shift key. This will make it easy for you to keep the maximum size ratio steady. I want the icon to appear, so I moved it to the top. Now I'm painting this icon. I copy the icon three times and paint each icon in different colors. I'll slide the layers side by side so I get a colorful and smooth transitional animation. I'll see you in the next video. 3. Click Animation: Hi guys. In this lesson I'm going to add two forward back keys to the video. I'll also create a click animation by adding a link. I want you to interpret all these elements to your own liking. First of all, I'd like to put the icons together in a single composition. I select all the layers of notes and convert them to precompose by right clicking. Move all attributes into the new composition. Let's write the name of the shape layers circle, so that we can easily find it among the other shapes layers. In the future, I'd like to create a scale animation because the circle layer stays constantly and doesn't look good. I'm choosing the key frames and softening the animation with the graph editor. It was so good, but I want the music note animation to appear only in the circle. So I copy the shape and move it to the top. I click on the composition and click on Alpha Maat. I'm painting the shape in dark blue. You know we're selecting the fill effect from the effect panel to paint. Now there are keys. We'll build these with the polygon tool, we need two triangles. The polygon tool creates a pentagon for you, so you can easily get other geometric shapes by changing the number of angles. Polystar path points. Three, I got a triangle looking to the left of the edge, but the shape looks very sharp. I want to soften the corners, add round corners. I think that's fine. I've uncovered the central point. Remember, it's always good to prepare the center point in advance because it's hard to change the center point after you've done some animations. I'm making it a little smaller and adjusting its place in the composition. I'm clicking on Title Action Safe. Again, I'll do that every time I need to make sure that the shape is right in the middle. So I click on the grid, Everything's fine. I don't have to work from scratch to get the right key, because the reflection of this triangle will be another perfect key transform flip horizontal, I'm changing your position to be in the same line. Now I need a growth animation for these two triangles. I'll pick two shapes and create a scale animation. It's beautiful, just like I wanted it. Let's write down the names of the shapes so it's easy to find them. In the future, we're going to do a click on animation. What we need is a cursor icon. I want the trigger to go right up and right click. I'll do that, of course with position animation. I'm also going to add scale animation because I wanted to grow up. At the same time, I'll do the position graphic as usual. I don't give much detail because I'm telling them in the introductory classes we haven't used so many different graphs yet. Yeah, it was nice, but now there's a problem. It doesn't appear on it because it's similar in color. I'm going to copy this stick and paint it white right away. Then I'm going to select the Alphamat, so that the white sign only appears in that shape. I'm actually attaching the white cursor and now I get the click animation by decreasing and increasing the scale values of the cursor. I'm also doing similar animations with the right click to enhance realism. It was great. That's all for now. See you in the next lesson. 4. What is Alpha Matte? : Guys, we did a click on animation in our last, in this lesson I'm going to teach you how to replace the music icon with another icon. After the click animation, I want the music note to move to the right. Then I'll put another icon inside the circle shape. We'll have a realistic click on animation. If you remember in the previous lesson, we made the note appear only when it's in the shape. It won't appear when we put the music note out of the circle. Let's create a position animation. I'm softening the movement as we always do a motion that takes place at a constant speed is boring. Our brain predicts the end and this situation is far from creating a mystery. I think that's one of the important rules of animation. I'd like to point out that an animation that happens very quickly is bad. This icon disappeared by sliding. Right now I'm going to add another icon and it's going to come from the left side at the same time and be placed inside the circle. I match the size and color of the shape with the other so that it looks beautiful. I'm just turning the pencil icon into a composition. I need a matt layer for the pen, so I'm copying the circle. Rename pencil. Matt. Pencil Track. Matt Alphamat. Yeah, now we can move on to the position animation. I'm bringing the pencil icon from the left to the middle of the shape and softening the movement. I'm making the final adjustments and the animation is ready. I think it's pretty good. Thank you for watching. I'll see you in the next lesson. 5. Jump and Bounce Animation: Hi guys. Welcome. First of all, let's remember what we did in our last lesson. After the click animation, we scrolled the first icon and destroyed it. Then placed another icon in the circle. In today's lesson, we'll do a jump and drop animation for the pencil icon while falling. Replacing it with E, S, the first letter of the skill share logo. I'd like to explain briefly why we're doing this. Our eye can't perceive every frame exactly. It sees about 18:24 frames in seconds. Let's say we're watching a 60 FPS video, which means we can easily deceive our brains with a few frames in the video. Yeah, let's start making animations. Now, if you remember in previous videos, I didn't add our logo to the composition because I had nothing to do with the logo. But now I'm going to use the logo. That's why I'm adding the logo to the composition. I'm also reducing the brightness so it doesn't get ahead of other compositions. I press the control shift and keys as soon as the pen gets into the shape. This combination allows us to divide the composition into two parts. From where we mark it. I'm removing the matt part of the second part. What does that mean? The second part of the pencil composition has become visible when it's out of shape. Let's start doing the jump and fall animation. I'm starting by creating a position animation for the pen composition. Now I'm selecting all the key frames and pressing nine. I'm clicking on the graphic editor. As usual, this is how I adjust the graph. The point in the middle of the graph means the speed at the top of the pencil icon. That's how I set it up because I wanted it to slow down completely and then fall to the ground quickly. If we create a rotation animation with position animation, we'll get a much more realistic animation. It's so much better. I'll turn the pen into an S. That's why I'm asking the S. I'm applying the key frames I've created to the letter layer. As you can see, it switches and turns in the same way as the pencil. I divide the two layers from the same place I'm using the control shift D shortcut, as I just mentioned, we've turned the pen into an S, but I wanted to hit the ground after it's turned. It looks bad that the movement stops suddenly. Let's create a new position animation. Right now I'm doing this by changing the Y position. We'll just select the key frame right in the middle, and press the F nine key. The pattern should be like this. We're also applying what we've just done for these key frames. And I'm going to create a position animation for the cursor, because the cursor should go after the click animation, I'll create a null object and then link the cursor to the null object. If I drag the null object to the right, the cursor will be out of the composition because I've been telling you this many times. I assume you understand now and I'm passing quickly. I'll see you in the next class. Thank you for watching. 6. Stroke Animation & Matte Animation: Hi guys. In the final lesson we had an animation for the S letter. In this lesson, we're going to create a stroke animation for the other letters of the word skill and a matt position animation for the word share. Actually I've shown these two kinds of animation in previous classes. We created the stroke animation on the music note icon. We also created a matt position animation while replacing the icon with another icon. Let's start with an animation of the word skill. First, I copy the S layer. I need to delete all the animations on the S layer and all the masks on the S layer. Yeah, and now we're starting to do the stroke animation. I'll mask all the letters except according to the animation. I'm passing this section fast. I'd like to point out this. I recommend you practice stroke animations. You will not have this problem if you click the layer again. After you have completed the letter, I've finished masking. And now I'm dragging the stroke effect from the effect panel to the layer. I mark all the masks and then increase the brush size until no words appear paint style, reveal original image. When I bring the end value 0-100 the animation will be ready. But as you can see, there's a little distortion. I'm fixing these, I'm softening the movement. We've finished this part now. I'm taking the word skill into a separate composition. I'm creating a position animation because that word must be right in the middle of the composition. I'm re adding the Skill Share logo to the composition because I need to align it. Now there's the second word share. As you know, we have right and left keys. I'll get a square by combining these in the middle, in a little lower. And then I'm going to tie a mate to this layer and make a matt a animation. We're softening the motion in every animation. And I'm not going to mention it because you know that. Let's watch the animation. I'm masking the word share because I'll only use that part in the mad animation. I'm creating the matter that we're going to tie into the square. I'm combining the right and left layers into a composition. I'm choosing alpha so that the word share only appears in that shape. There's a little mess here. Let's fix it. Now, as I mentioned earlier, I'm scrolling the composition to the left and at the same time, the word share from left to right. After I've softened the moves and set the appropriate timing, my animation will be ready. If you remember, we had a mat on the button on the right. The Matt connection broke because I joined these two triangles. That's why I'm realigning Matt. Now. That's it. I'll see you in the next lesson. 7. Dot Animation: Hello everybody. In this lesson we're going to make a dot animation of the word skill. As you can see in the animation we did in the last lesson, there was a circle shape in the middle of our composition. We'll shrink this circle to the point of the, in our logo. We're going to shrink the circle first, Then we'll create a jump animation. Then the circle shape will take its place in the position where the point is on the letter I. I'm adding motion blur to the triangles. Because it's a quick move, I will get a better picture. Now I'm going to create a scale animation and a position animation. We've done the jump and the bounce animation before. In the same way, we're going to create a similar animation. Again, I'm raising the center of the graphic up a little bit and sliding it to the other side. Now let's make a bounce animation. There's got to be a pattern like this. Yeah, our bounce animation is ready. But I want it to be the same size and position as our logo. That's why I'm adding the logo to the composition. When I put it on, I'll know the right position and the right size. I want the animations to happen a little earlier, that's why I shifted them to the left. I think it's very good. Finally, we need to change the color of the dot because the dot on the skill share logo is green and our circle shape is black. I can't change it from the beginning because our icons are green. If I turn the circle green, some of the main animations will not be visible. In this case, we need to do a color transition animation. We'll do this with the fill effect. It already has a full effect on our shape, so there's no need for a second. I'm deleting it, make it black at the moment of jumping, and turn green at the end of the animation. Yeah, I think it's good. I'll see you in the next video. 8. Thank you!: Hi guys. As you know, our animation is ready. But I'd like to make the animation a little better with a few corrections. I'm just going to make one correction to this video. If you remember, a few lessons ago, we did a jump animation for the pencil icon. As I watched the video, I noticed that the color of the pencil icon was different from that of the letter S. I think it'll make a better picture if they're both the same color. The pen should be green first, but I want the pen to be black as soon as it comes out of the circle. With the jump animation, we're going to create this with Matt animation. First we copy the pencil icon and make it black. Then we copy the circle shape and put it on top of the black pencil alpha inverted mat. Finally, as soon as it turns out to be a circle, we split the green pen layer into two. Control shift D and we're deleting the second part. I decided to accelerate because the animation was a little slow. Select all layers and right click on precompose. I select the stretch section from the bottom left setting and increase the speed of the animation. I'm dividing the composition into two. I'm bringing pre click animation to 55% after clicking animation to 70% That's it, our course is over here. From now on, I'm going to create a lot of courses about after effects. If you follow me, you'll be informed about the courses. Thank you for watching.