Mograph Ball Bounce - Quick Tricks in Adobe After Effects

1. After Effects Shorts - Mograph ball - Intro: Welcome to a super quick hot tip on using size instead of scale to keep your squash and stretch looking super geometric and motion graphics Z. 2. After Effects Shorts - Mograph ball - Tute: L et's first have a look at a basic bouncy ball. It's got a slow point at the top and a fast point at the bottom. That means we want to stretch a here at the fastest point, squash, stretch, back to neutral. Let's do that first, and we're going to do it the classic way with scale. So I'll open up scale and position with my P and S, and probably around it's going to stay neutral here, so I'm just going to spoil this. I'm just going to hit scale there, where it's bang on. Then about here, I want it to be at its fastest. Speed, that's when it's going to stretch. I always have to just scrub it to double check, which is which axis. Let's go 81 20. So 20 different on either side. We're going super extreme, so we can really see it. Then we'll go 13070. Wild. So whatever we're taking from one side, we're adding to the other so that we maintain our mass. Boop, boop. Poop. A little bit of easy es. Sinkey, swoopy. Look at it. How cute. But the classic scale does make our ball turn into a bit of an oval, which we might not want. If we want to go super motion graphics, we probably don't want that look. So what we're going to do is make another version of this. Instead of using a circle, I'm going to use a rounded rectangle. So somewhere aproxddle, holding control and shift, we'll scale it out from the middle so I can get it rock the same sars. I'm going to copy the position properties. Before I make it not look stupid. So I'm just going to select the position properties, copy and paste. And then I can grab all of those properties and pop it over. So then I'll maintain that position and the easing that I've got on there. So obviously, that's not a circle. So that doesn't work. But because we selected a rounded rectangle, we have a whole bunch of options. Under a rectangle, under our rectangle path, we have roundness. So we can pump that up. I think once you pass 100, it doesn't really do anything. And depending on the size of your ball. But in our case, we'll just go an arbitrarily large number. There. In case, instead of using scale, we can use size. We have size on the ball as well. Please just toil it down so I can show you on the path, we've got size. But if I just quickly pop in there, it's the same thing. Still distorting an oval. Where ads with this rectangle path, because we've got a roundness set on it, we can We get a nice geometric kind of mography shapes. What we'll do is we'll copy the timing that we already had Schmiko looking scale. Right about here. Size is perfect. Now that hit the stopwatch, and then we're going to stretch it down here. The That feels right. So we'll go 220. The difference being 80, so we'll go 380 blam. Then on the impact, I'm going to copy paste this first key frame. So I'm just resetting it basically because I want to make sure that I maintain mass. So I find it helpful to copy paste my base settings. We wide. I'm just doing it by i, so then I can put in actual needed figures. So 450, the difference is 150, so half that blam. Soup drama. Let's see if this works. Shall we? This one should be the same. Copy paste. And the last one should also be the same. Let's select and funky Fn. Let's give a reply. Oh. I don't know about you, but I think that's beautiful. And could you all sorts of different things with that? It does work in two dimensions, though, so it's not like a complete catch all, but for a motion graphics E bounce or all sorts of different things, e size. Size is heaps good. 3. After Effects Shorts - Mograph ball - Wrap Up: S. That's the difference between scale and size. You can do so much more with the style of your motion graphics. I challenge you to have a little experiment, have a little play. See what it looks like for you bouncing a ball with the scale property versus adding the motion blur, versus doing it with size, maybe a combo. Who knows? Have a little experiment and see what you can get. And when you're happy with it, I'd love to see it exported out as a little gift and popped up in the discussions to share with your classmates. I'd be so keen to see what everybody's doing with these tools.