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1. Intro: Hey, what's up? I'm Valerie. I've been a professional
motion designer since 2018. And in 2020, I started to teach the best software
for motion graphics, Adobe After Effects. Along the way, I shared countless tutorials
on social media. And in 2023, I released the Ultimate Beginners
Guide to After Effects. Absolutely for free, for you to learn after
effects from scratch. Following that, I created
the second course, After Effects Micro animation. So you can learn to create super cool animations
using basic shape layers. Only now, I'm thrilled to introduce you my new
creation, text in Motion. In this course, you'll
dive deep into the art of animating text layers and
typography in after effects. By the end of this course, you will have nine jaw dropping
text animations ready to elevate your next project or impress your portfolio
website visitors. With each lesson, we'll be cracking up the
difficulty level, boosting your confidence
and skills along the way. Plus you'll learn how
to handle changes and tweak text to fit whatever
you or your client needs. In this course, you will not
only master text animation, but you'll also get a solid understanding after
effects fundamentals. We'll even install
some handy free tools that will speed up your
workflow efficiency. Just like my other courses, I'm all about ensuring you have the best
learning experience. Therefore, you will get a
clear notification on when to work along with me and when to just listen without
touching the computer. You'll also get a mid
lessons questions to help you memorize
the lessons better. And I'll even tell you when
to take a 10 minutes break, just like in a real classroom. Oh, and don't worry, you won't have to hear my funky accent throughout
the lessons. This course is voiced by
professional voiceover. So get ready to be inspired, get motivated, and put
some text in motion.
2. Section 1: Warm up Lesson: Hi and welcome to the first
lesson on text animation. In this lesson, we're going to explore the exciting world of text animation and after effects together and create some
awesome animations. Our focus will be on creating
two different scenes with the first two titles
in the first scene and the 23 titles in
the second scene. By creating these scenes, we'll be mastering the
three main methods of animating text
and after effects. Over the next few lessons, we'll be delving deeper into each technique and creating
more advanced animations. This lesson is divided
into four parts. In the first part, I will show you how to install
after effects. Then we'll create
the main folder for the course and learn how to work in an organized manner for motion design projects. Afterward, we will install
the necessary fonts. Once completed, we will enter
after effects to create our first composition
and configure the software settings
for a better workflow. Moving on to the second part, we'll delve into the fundamental
parameters of a layer in after effects before
designing the first scene. In the third part,
we will focus on animating the first scene while learning the
first two methods. Then we'll learn how to improve
the animation we created. In the fourth and final part, we will create the
second scene and convert a regular layer
into a three D layer. Then we will learn how to
connect the two scenes. Next, we'll learn how to
render the animation as a high quality MP four
file that you can share on social media or
your portfolio website. Finally, I show you how to organize the project
before closing it. It's going to be awesome.
Let's get started.
3. Introduction to After Effects: Hey there. Before we dive into animating text
layers and after effects, don't forget to download
the main folder of the course with all the
necessary materials. That way you can follow along with me
through the lessons. Next, let's talk about getting Adobe After
Effects set up. It's a program made by Adobe, the company that creates some of the coolest platforms
for creators out there. If you don't have an Adobe
subscription yet, no worries. Check out the PDF file and the main folder for a
link to a free trial. Sign up for the trial
and head over to the app section to
install after effects. If you already have an
Adobe subscription, simply log into your account on the website or the
desktop version, head over to the app section and install after
effects from there. While installing the software, make sure to include
the cinema for plug in because we are going
to use it in the course. Once it's installed,
we're ready to get started to make sure we do not run into any
problems down the line. It's a good idea to keep things organized when we're working
on an after effects project. One way to do this is by creating some folders
on our computer. Let's find a spot where we can make the main folder
for the course. Let's create a new folder. Great. And now let's call it D M underscore text animation
inside that folder, we need to make
three more folders. The first one is for our after effects files, so we'll call it, the second one is for all the graphics we're going to use, and we'll call that one assets. The last one is for
any test videos or renders we make as
we work on the project, which we'll call
renders or samples. Now let's open the folder
you downloaded from me and navigate to the Assets
folder located here. Copy all the assets
in this folder to the Assets folder
you just created. Next, let's install the
fonts we will be using. In this course, I
will show you how to install fonts for
Windows and Mac users. Let's start with this font. Enter the OTF folder
for Windows users. Select all the files, right click and choose install
for all users or install. This font is already
installed on my computer, so that I won't install
it again for Mac users. Open a new folder and with
finder selected, click on. Now click on Go to Folder and type this line.
Then press Enter. This will bring you
to the fonts folder installed on your system. Now copy the OTF files from the course folder and paste
them into the fonts folder. Excellent. Now let's
install the second font. Go to the fonts folder, enter the OTF folder, select all the files, right click and choose install
for all users or install. Great, let's go back to the assets folder and
install the last font. Excellent, let's move on. After installing the fonts, it's time to launch
after effects together. Great, now we can close this window to make sure we all see the
same panel arrangement. Let's click on Default. Now, like in any
editing software, we need to open a
new file to do that. And after effects, we need to create our
first composition. Let's click on New Composition. Now we'll define the settings
for our first composition. Let's name it Text
Animation One. Here we'll define
the format size, which means the size of
our first composition. This is the dimensions
of the width and height of the
composition we create, which will be the size of
the final video at the end, different cases require
different resolutions. As shown in the examples. A regular Instagram feed
required posts to be 1080 pixels in width by
1080 pixels in height. The new feed requires a
height of 1,350 pixels. For stories, reels,
and Tiktok videos, the size should be 1080 pixels in width and
1920 pixels in height. For Youtube videos, it's
best to use a resolution of 1080 pixels in height and
1920 pixels in width, which is a full HD format. If you want to make
a four K video, you'll need to use full HD
resolution multiplied by two. This time will work
with a format size of 1080 pixels in width and 13, 50 pixels in height. This is a perfect size for
sharing posts on social media. All right, moving on here, we'll choose the frame
rate for our animation. What is the frame rate in the world of
video and animation? Frame rate refers to the
number of individual frames or pictures shown per second to create the
illusion of motion. Frame rate is measured in
frames per second, FPS. The higher the frame rate, the smoother the motion appears. Most common videos and films
use a frame rate of 24, 25, 30 frames per second. But if you want to
create an animation for an app or a website, it's better to work on
60 frames per second. When you work with video editing software
like after effects, you have the flexibility to choose the frame rate
for your project. It's important to note
that the frame rate can affect the file
size of the final file. Also, higher frame rates require more storage space
and computing power, which can slow down
your workflow. In our case, let's set it
to 30 frames per second. Next, let's set the duration
of our first composition. Let's set it to 10 seconds. Finally, let's select the background color
for the composition. Keep in mind that we can easily change all
these settings at any stage of the animation later on. And there you have it. You created your
first composition. Before we dive in,
I want to mention a few important things while
working with after effects. First, if you see the
preview screen like this, don't worry, it's probably because your caps
lock key is on. Just turn it off and everything
should be back to normal. Next, when you're working on
a project in after effects, make sure you switch your
computer's language to English. This way, all the shortcuts
we use will work properly. And if you don't see
the background color, then simply click here. Now if you see the numbers
here differently from mine, make sure to zoom out
the timeline panel. Now you can hover
your mouse here, hold down the control
or a command key, and click on the numbers here. These numbers
represent the duration of our composition timeline. We can see it in
frames or in seconds. Then if you see
the preview screen smaller or larger than mine, simply click here
and select Fit. Finally, click here and change the preview quality
here to Full Al. Right. Now for a
better workflow, let's adjust the
software preferences. Go to Edit Preferences, Mac users, you can access
preferences this way. Now go to General and set the software preferences
exactly like I did. You can pause the video and continue it when you
are ready to move on. In the meantime, I'll
continue to the next one. Now let's use this opportunity to talk about the
auto saving feature. This feature saves your
work automatically. At certain intervals, you
don't lose any progress. If the program crashes or
something crazy happens, I usually have it set to
save every 5 minutes, but you can choose whatever
time frame works for you. All right, moving on now, head over to the script
and expression section and check all the boxes. As I did once, you're good to go, Hit okay
and we can start the lesson. Note that you don't
need to mess with these settings every time
you start a new project. You said at once and
you're good to go. Okay, after we have created the first composition and adjusted the software
preferences, we need to save the project
and give it a name. To do this, let's go to
File and click on Save. Now let's find the folder
we created for the lesson. Enter the AE folder and give
the after effects file. We are currently
working on a name. It can be the same name as our first composition or
any other name you prefer. Basically, we are
giving a name to the after effects project
we are working on. As you can see, the after effects file doesn't have
a name at the moment. The name we gave earlier. It was the name of
the composition. The composition we
are currently in. Now, we are giving a name
to the after effects file. All right, so let's
click on Save. And now our project has a name. You can locate the after effects file we saved
in the AE folder. When we initially
saved the project, we gave it a name and most importantly activated
the autosave function. Now we are ready to get started. The first thing we will do is import the color palette
into the project. To import assets
into the project, you can either manually drag them from the
computer like that, or you can double click on the gray area in
the project panel. Now let's locate the
folder we created for the lesson and enter
the Assets folder. Select the color palette
and click on Import. Now the color palette
is in the project, but we don't see it
in the preview screen of the composition we created. To see the color palette
and the composition, we need to bring it into the
layers panel located here. To do this, we can simply drag the color palette into the
composition like this. Now we see the color palette
in the preview screen. Now we can resize this
layer manually by grabbing its edge here while
holding down the shift key. We can resize the
layer symmetrically. Now release the click on the mouse and then
release the shift key. Furthermore, we can scale
down the layer from the layers panel using the basic layer
transform properties. Click on the small arrow
of the layer to see it. If we open these properties, we can see the basic parameters for every layer
and after effects. Here we have the
position parameter, which allows us to move the layer left and
right, up or down. Here we see the scale parameter. We can change the value of
this parameter manually, or we can click on the value
and enter a specific number. Let's write 30 and press Enter. There is also a parameter called rotation which allows
us to rotate the layer. I will set it back to zero. Finally, there is also the opacity parameter which controls the transparency
of the layer. Okay, now after we finish
reducing the layer size, we can close the properties
and move the layer here. Let's lock this layer from here to ensure that
we can't move it. Additionally, we can
hide this layer in the layers panel by using the
shy function located here. If you don't see the
icon, you can click here. Okay, let's mark this layer
as an invisible layer. To activate the function, we need to click here on
the shy icon as well. Now we can see it on
our previous screen, but it doesn't bother
us in the layers panel. With this, we finished the
first part and we are ready to move on to the next
one. See you there.
4. Design the first scene: Welcome back. Now we need to create the
first title to do it, we need to create a text line. Let's select the text tool. I want you not to do it
together with me for now because I want to explain a few things
before we start. Don't worry, we'll do it
together in a few moments. Once we choose the text tool, there are two ways to create
a text box and a text line. If I select a specific
area like this, I will create a text box. And if I write something here, the text will
automatically drop to the next line when it reaches
the boxes boundaries. Now I can adjust the size
of the box as desired. The second way is to create
a text line for that. I'll click here on
the previous screen and type in some text. This is how we
create a text line. Unlike a text box, a text line doesn't have
borders that we can adjust. Okay, so I'll delete the
two layers I created. Go back to the selection tool
and let's do it together. Now let's select the text tool. Now click here, wants
to create a text line, and let's write the word text. To start writing an upper case, you can hold down the shift
key and type the letter. Now let's write the rest of the word without
holding the shift key. Next, let's select all the
text by double clicking on it. Now let's adjust it
using the Character tab. If you don't see it, you
can find it under window. Okay, First let's
choose the font style. I'll right L here, scroll down a bit, and
select Bold in Style. Since I know I'll use this
font a lot in this course, I can save it as a
favorite for this, let's click on the
star icon here. Now I can click here to
see all my favorite fonts. This way I don't need to
search for it every time. And to go back to
see all the fonts, click here once again. All right, now let's
change the font size. We can do it by
dragging this value to the sides or by entering
a specific number. Let's set it to 300. If you want to change
the font style, you can open all the
different options here or click here once and use
the up and down arrows. Set it to display heavy. Now let's center the layer in the composition using
the Align tool. Click here. Here.
One last thing. Let's go to Paragraph and
make sure the text is aligned to the center and the writing
direction is left to right. If your layer moves to the
side after doing this, simply re center the
layer using a line. Now I want to talk to you about a very important topic
called Anchor Point. I'm talking about this red icon. Let's see what it does and
why it's so important. I'll open the rotation parameter
and rotate this layer. Pay attention to how it rotates. It rotates in relation to the position of
the anchor point. If I want the text layer
to rotate from its center, I need to place the anchor point in the center of the layer. I can do this using the anchor
point tool located here. Let's select it together and
move the anchor point to the center of the layer while holding the control
or command key. This way, the anchor point
will be snapped to the center. Now let's release the mouse click and then the control key. After using the
anchor point tool, don't forget to switch back
to the selection tool. Okay, now let's move on and
create the second text. For that, we can
simply duplicate this layer and change the
text and the design later on. To duplicate the layer, we'll use the short cut control. Now let's drag the new layer downwards while holding
down the shift key. This way we can drag
it in a straight axis. Let's double click on this layer and change the text animation. Hold the shift key and type the letter A to
make it upper case. Now release the shift key and continue typing the
rest of the word. Now double click on
the text to select it all and change
the font to Ezra. Let's choose this style because we'll be
using this Fanta lot. Let's mark it with the star. This way we can access it more quickly in
future sessions. Next, let's change
the font size to 100 or 120. And press Enter. Let's make sure the text
is aligned to the center. Let's go to Paragraph and
make sure the text is aligned to the center and the writing
direction is left to right. And using the aligned tool, let's center the text
in the composition. As you can see, the
anchor point of this layer is not
centered this time. Instead of centering it manually using the
Anchor Point tool, we'll do it with the
useful shortcut control. Alt, Home Mac users will need to work a bit harder
to use this shortcut. Also, don't forget that
all shortcuts will work only when the language on your computer is set to English. If so, let's press Control
Alt home. There you go. The anchor point. Jump to
the center of the layer. Now let's go back to the selection tool and
move the text here. Now I want both texts to
occupy exactly the same area. They should be resized to
match each other's size. To do this, we can use
guides to create guides. We need to display the rulers. We can display the rulers by opening the guides
and grids list here, and then select the rulers, or by using the
shortcut control. Now to create a guide, let's click here on the ruler and drag the first
guide from it. You can place it
here. Let's create another guide and place it here. Next, let's select
this layer and change its size using
the scale perimeter. But instead of opening
this parameter manually, we can simply select the
layer and press the key. Now click here on the
value once and use the arrow keys to
increase the size to 105. Then click here to
finish the operation. Great, and now we
can hide the rulers. To do this, press
controller once again. To get rid of the guides, go to view and
select clear guides. Now let's center these two
layers in the composition. To do it precisely, we can use the helpful guide
called Title Safe Action. The short cut for this guide
is the apostrophe key. Get used to this short cut
because we will use it a lot. All right, so now I can see where the center
of the composition is. Now let's select both
layers like this and move them upwards
using the arrow keys. If we press the shift
key while doing this, the text will move in
larger increments. With this, we've finished
designing the first scene, and we're ready to animate it.
5. Let's Animate the First Scene: Let's learn how to
animate this scene. In order to create
this animation, we need to convert this text
layer into a shaped layer. Similar to how we
convert a text layer to an outlined layer
using create outlines, an illustrator
after this action, we get a shape with a path
that we can move and modify. After that we will
use an effect called trim path and animate
one of its parameters. If you're wondering why
we can't simply use the trim path effect now it's because if we don't convert
the text to a path, we won't be able
to achieve that. Even if we activate
the stroke for this text layer and try
to add the trim path, we will see that this
effect doesn't appear here. Okay, I'll bring all
back to normal in order to convert
this text layer into a shape layer with a
path right click on it. Go to Create and choose
Create Shapes from Text. The text layer will be
automatically turned off. We don't need it for now, so we can enable the
shy function to it. Now let's go to the fill of
this shape and turn it off. Then go to Stroke, and choose the dark color
from the palette. Now change the thickness to one. Let's click here to see
how it looks great. Now let's zoom in a bit. Either by using the scroll wheel or by pressing these keys, I see that it's too thin. Let's set the stroke to
two and press Enter. Now let's duplicate this
layer using control D. Then place this layer
below the first one. This will be the
layer that will be colored after the stroke
animation is finished. Because after the
stroke is drawn, we want to reveal
the entire word. Let's activate the
fill on this layer. Choose the dark color and this
time turn off the stroke. Now we have one layer
with the text filled with color and an additional
layer with only the stroke. For now, let's turn off the
layer with the fill and focus on the animation of the
text layer with the stroke. To do that, let's
open this layer, select the contents, go to Add, and choose the
trim paths effect. Now let's open the Effect and expand this panel
for convenience. Now if I move the
parameter called end, you'll see that the stroke
disappears and reappears. This is the parameter
we're going to animate. We will do it by
creating key frames. What are key frames?
Key frames are a fundamental concept in animation and motion
graphics, in after effects. Key frames are used to define the starting and
ending points of an animation or transition. They are points in time that
mark the position, size, rotation, opacity, and other properties of
an element or layer. Key frames are also used to control the speed and
timing of an animation. By adjusting the distance
between key frames. You can control the speed of animation by adjusting
the timing of key frames. You can control the spacing
and rhythm of animation. Okay, so first things first, before animating the parameter, let's make sure the time indicator is at the
beginning of the timeline. Now let's decide so that at this time point at
the zero second, the value of this
parameter will be zero. In order to give the
command to after effects, we need to create a key frame. To create key frames, click on the stopwatch
icon for this parameter. There you created
your first key frame. Now let's move to
the second number two and decide so that
at this time point, the value of this
parameter will be 100. Once we create the
first keyframe for a specific parameter and then change its value
along the timeline, additional key frames with the new value will be
automatically created for us. Therefore, we see
the second key frame created without clicking
the stopwatch icon. In order to see what
we have achieved, let's place the
time indicator at the beginning of our time
line and press the Spacebar. Great job. You have created
your first animation. Now let's place the time
indicator here and see how we can make this animation
a bit more interesting. We can do this by creating key frames for an additional
parameter called offset. As you can see, as
soon as I move it, the line starts to move. I'll set it back to zero. And let's animate it together. First, let's go to the
beginning of the animation. And set it up so that at this time the value of this
parameter will be zero. At the second number two, we'll set it up so that this parameter will
make a full rotation. Let's see how it looks now. While the line is being
drawn, it also moves. Next we will make our animation
a bit more interesting by transforming our regular key
frames into as key frames. What are a key frames? *** is a type of key
frame interpolation that helps you achieve smooth
and natural looking motion. When you apply AsE's
to a key frame, it adds gradual acceleration and acceleration
to the animation, making it appear more natural. To convert these keyframes
to as key frames. We will select them and
press the nine key. Mac users, hold down the F
and key while pressing nine. Let's do that and
see how it looks. Now looks nice. Let's close all the layer
parameters and move on. Now let's find the
right moment in the timeline where the filled text layer
should enter the scene. Let's say we want it
to start entering the scene slightly before
all the strokes are drawn. To see where the animation
of the stroke ends, we can select this
layer and press the UK. This way we can see all the key frames that
exist on this layer. Now let's place the
time indicator here and decide that this layer will enter the frame from
this point forward. Let's turn back on this
layer and the parameter. We will create key frames for this time will be the
opacity parameter. To quickly access
this parameter, we can simply select the
layer and press the key. At this time point in time, the value of this
parameter should be zero. To give after
effects the command, we'll click on the
stopwatch icon for this parameter and create the
key frames with this value. At the second
number 2.15 frames, which is exactly 1 second
after the first key frames, we'll change the value to 100. And we'll also convert these key frames
into as key frames. Question what is the
shortcut to convert a linear key frame
into an *** key frame? We'll do it by selecting the key frame and
pressing the F nine key. Let's see how it
looks. Great job. Okay, so we've
animated the layers. Now I want to teach you
something very important. Let's say later in the video, we'll need to move this
animation to the side. If I move this layer, the fill layer
won't move with it, then I'll have to
move it as well. I'll press control Z
to undo the action. To make both layers
move together, we can link the bottom layer to the top layer using the parent and link
function found here. Parenting and linking are both powerful tools and after
effects that allow you to control the motion
of one layer or property based on the
motion of another. Parenting is a relationship between two layers
in which one layer the child is attached to and follows the motion
of another layer, the parent parent a
layer to another layer. Any motion or
transformation applied to the parent layer is also
applied to the child layer. This is useful for creating complex animations such as
characters or vehicles, where the movement of one part affects the movement of another. Linking on the other hand, is a more flexible relationship
that allows you to control one property or parameter of a layer
based on another. In our case, we need to
parent one layer to another. To do that, we'll drag the pick whip of this
layer into this layer. Now every time I
move the top layer, the bottom layer
will move with it. All right, I'll press control Z. Now it's time to move on and start to animate
this text layer. But before that, let's turn off these two layers
so they don't get in our way and proceed. Now let's talk about the
two main methods to animate this text layer to achieve the result we see
in the example. The first involves separating each letter and animating
them individually, which is a manual process. The second and more
efficient method is to use text animators
and after effects. Let me show you the manual
method first, real quick. First of all, I
need to duplicate this layer as many times as the number of
letters in this word. Then I need to leave one letter from the word on each layer. Next, I have to arrange their
position and animate them one by one and create the
timing between them manually. As you can see, it is a very
long and cumbersome way. I hope you got my point. I did a lot of actions for
such a simple animation. Therefore, we won't
do it this way. We'll do it in a much
smarter and faster way using the text animators. First, let's open the layer. We can close that and
enlarge this panel a bit. Now we just have to select the text and open up
the animate list. From here, we need to choose which property will be
in our first animator. In our, since we want the text to move from
one place to another, we'll choose the
position property for our first animator. Here we can see that an
animator has been created. The first thing we need to do is set the range selector
of this animator. This means that now we
will decide where we want the text to be at the end or at the beginning
of this animator. Let's set to be here below. For now, we can change
it later at any time. For now, we're just trying to
see what works best for us. Let's bring it down a bit. Let's bring the text
even further down. Let's write 120. Now we've set a certain
position for the text. Let's scale down
the preview screen and enlarge this panel. Now we need to open
the range selector and also open the
advanced properties. Now we will control
the text based on the value we set in
the range selector. We will do it by changing
the offset parameter. This means when the
offset is set to zero, it means that the
text will be located at the value we set to
the range selector. And if we set the offset to 100, the text will be located
at its original position, which is where it was before we set the value in
the range selector. But if I move this value
all the way down to -100 the text will end up
in its original position. And that's not what
we're going for. To fix it, we need to change
how this animator functions. And we can do that by changing the shape of this
animator to ramp up. Now when the offset
is set to -100 the text position is based on the value we set to
the range selector. When the offset is set to 100, the text returns to
its original position. Now we can set key frames to the offset property to create
the animation we want. Let's make sure we are
at the beginning of the timeline and create a
key frame with the value of -100 Now let's move to second number one and
change the offset to 100. While working with
text animators, we can change the easing
of the key frames here. Instead of using
the nine shortcut, set it to 85, 85, and
see how that looks. Don't worry if you
feel a bit confused. We will do this many
times in the course. Eventually you will
understand it much better. All right, now let's move on and learn how to make
the text invisible. When it's at the
bottom, I want it to be visible only when it reaches its original position up here. To do this, we need to
find a point in time where the text has already finished its animation and is
in its final position. Now right click on it, go to Mask and
create a new mask. Now when the text is at the
bottom, we won't see it. If after creating the mask
you still see the text. You can change its location
without messing up the animation simply by changing the value for
the range selector. Adjust the range
selector and check your animation looks nice. All right, moving on now let's
bring back the two layers. Now I want this animation to start only after this text
has finished its animation. Let's say at this time point in the second number 1.15 frames. Let's move it while holding
the shift key so that the layer aligns with the
time indicators position. Let's see how it
looks. Looks good. Once we finish the
animation for this section, we can apply our
chosen pink color from the color
palette to the text. Select this layer, go
to the character tab, and use the eyedropper to pick the pink color
from the palette. Let's also turn
off the background of the previous
screen and move on. Now let's animate the
rest of the layers. This text will go up
and this text go down. First, let's find
the point in time where we want to start
animating the layers. Let's see where the
animation ends. That is where the
last key frames are to display all the key
frames we have in the scene. Make sure you don't
select any layer and press the U key here. I see that the key
frames are located here, meaning the animation of these
layers is finished here. Now we will select this
layer and that layer, but not this one.
Why not this one? Because we connected this
layer to that layer, which means that when
we move this layer, the second layer will
move along with it. Because of that,
let's select both of these layers and open the position parameter
for both of them. For that, we press the key. Now we'll create key frames
with the current value, because at this point in time we want the
text to remain here. But in a second. Number four, this layer will go here. Above. We will move it while
holding the shift key. We will move this layer downward also while
holding the shift key. Now let's select the key
frames we created and press F nine to convert them
to *** key frames. It looks a bit boring. To make the motion
more interesting, we can change the behavior
of this animation. We will do this using
the graph editor, right click, and make sure you are using the speed
graph editor. Now let's select both of these key frames and
drag the handle here. Let's also select both of these key frames and
move the handle here. Let's see how it looks. Now the text starts
moving slowly at first, then it gains a lot of speed. Finally, it slows
down towards the end. Note that the duration of the
animation hasn't changed. We just change the velocity of the key frames and not the
duration of the animation. Now let's go back to our
timeline and learn how to change the velocity without entering the graph editor and adjusting
the handles manually. For this, we do need to
select all the key frames, Hold down the alt key and double click on one
of the key frames. This will bring up the
keyframe velocity panel. Let's enter 85 for
both and press okay, let's see how it looks. It looks good. All right, so the first scene is ready and we can now proceed
to the next one, where we create a
three text animation.
6. Animtating the Second Scene and Rendering the Project: Okay, so first of all, let's create the text. We'll choose the
text tool and write. Let's now select all the text and change the color to blue. Make sure the text
is centered and the writing direction
is from left to right. Next, let's align the text to the center of the
composition using a line. Press here and here. And if we zoom in a bit, we can see that the
anchor point of this layer is not
centered in the layer. Let's use the shortcut. We learn to do that and
press control all at home. Now, because we know that
we are currently preparing the second scene in order to maintain the
project organized, let's nest this layer
into a new precomp. What is precomps?
Precomposing is the technique used to group layers together and treat them as
a single layer. It is a very useful tool
in after effects that can simplify your timeline and help you organize your project. One of the main advantages of precomposing layers is that it allows you to keep
your time line organized and easy to manage. By grouping related
layers together, you can reduce
clutter and make it easier to navigate and
edit your project. Let's precompose this
text layer together. We can do it in several ways. We can write, click on the
layer and choose Precompose. Or we can use the short cut
and press control shift C. Now let's give the
new pre comp a name. Let's call it, let's go comp, make sure both are
selected, and click okay. There you have it. A new
composition is created, which we can also see
in the project panel. If we enter it, we can see
the text layer we created. This will make it much more convenient for us to
create the second scene. Now let's go back to
the selection tool, set the preview screen to fit. Now let's turn this
text layer into a three D layer by clicking
on this icon here. For those who don't see
it, you can click here. Let's click on the three
D icon. There you go. The layer has become
a three D layer. But if we change the previews view angle from active
camera to custom view one, we'll see that the text doesn't
have the three D volume. To do this, we need to switch the software's
rendering engine from classic three D renderer
to Cinema Four D renderer. For those who don't see
it in the preview panel, you can press control K to access the composition
settings we are currently in. Now go to Three D Renderer and change the
renderer from here. Let's click Okay and continue. As you can see, for now,
nothing has changed. But if we open the
Layers properties, we'll see that a new property called Geometry Options
has been added. Let's open that. Now I want to show you how it would look if we hadn't switched the renderer. I switch it back to
classic three D and as you can see the geometry options
parameter is not active, that's why we switch to the
cinema Four D renderer. Okay, So now in order to create the three
dimensional volume, we need to increase the value for the extrusion
depth property. Let's set it to 35. That should be enough.
The larger we make it, the more difficult it will
be to render the scene, which will slow down the
computer and the software. Okay, now let's add
color to the sides. For that, we need to
select the text from here, go to Animate, then to side
the color, and choose RGB. Now let's select the
color palette through the projects panel so that
we can see the colors. And we'll change the color using the eye dropper to
gray beautiful. Now we can close the
layer and move on. If we change our
preview angle from costume view one to top view, we can see that the anchor point of this layer is not centered. Let's select the anchor
point tool and move the anchor point
from the Zaxisow. Let's switch back
to active camera to see the scene from
a regular angle. Also, don't forget to switch
back to the selection tool. All right, now we are ready
to animate this scene. But before that we can
enlarge this panel, set the preview to fit, and let's animate this layer. Our goal is to animate the layer moving
towards the camera, which requires animating
the position property. Let's press the key. As you can see, because we turn this layer into a three
dimensional layer, we added a new axis of movement in addition
to left and right. Down and up, we
can move the text closer or further
away from the camera. I'll press controls a few times. Let's animate it together. Let's set that at
this point in time, the position of the
text will be here. After 2 seconds, the text will
move closer to the camera. In order to move this layer
in larger increments, we can hold down the shift key while changing the value of the Z axis in order for the text to pass
exactly in the middle. We can also move it
along the x axis, that means shifting it sideways. Since we are dealing
with three D layers, the project may work very slowly to help after
effects preview the scene, we can lower the
quality of the preview. Here, let's choose quarter. Now we'll see the scene slightly more pixilated and
with lower quality. But after effects
will work faster. And continue moving the
layer forward and arrange the movement so that the text passes exactly
through the center. Let's see how it looks. Let the software render the
scene for a few seconds. Now to make the
movement smoother, let's change the key
frames to easy ease. Let's see it again one
more time. Looking good. After we finish with this word, let's create the animation
for the second word. To do this, we can duplicate this text
layer using control D. Then we can temporarily
turn off this layer. Now let's press here twice. And change the word to go hold down the shift key to
write it in capital letters. Let's change the color
of this text to yellow. Now go back to the
selection tool and see how the movement we
created looks with this text. Now let's make the text
pass through the letter O. For this, we need to adjust the animation of
this layer a bit. To change this animation, we need to see its key frames. Let's press you to do that. Now let's go to
the last keyframe. Hold down the shift
key while moving the time indicator so that it snaps exactly to the key frame. To achieve the desired result, it's crucial to change
the value only when the time indicator is placed
in the specific key frame. We want to change
the value for now, we can change the value
of this keyframe. Let's move the layer
backward and adjust its position to make the layer get out of the frame
through the letter O. You can also click on the
value you want to change and adjust it using the up and
down arrows on the keyboard. Once done, let's
review the outcome. Now let's turn on
both layers and bring the time indicator here
so we can see the layers. We can place this layer here. Now let's create a cool
entrance animation for these layers by using
a scaling animation. Let's make sure we are at the
beginning of the timeline. Select both layers
and press the S key. Now let's decide that at this time the size of
the layers will be zero. Let's change the value and create a key frame
with this value. At frame number 15, we will set the size
of the layers to 100% Let's convert
these key frames to as, turn off one of the layers
and see how the animation we created Looks looks good. Now let's time the two layers to enter the scene
one after the other. For this, let's move
the time indicator forward in time so we can
see both of the layers. Now let's move the Go text
layer forward in time. Let's see how it looks. I think we need to
move it a bit more. Let's see it now. Maybe
even a little more. Okay, let's move this layer to the second number, 1.15 frames. Yes, that's better.
The two layers have already left the scene. We don't need this part
of the time line anymore. Let's shorten it to the end
of these layers animation. For this, we need to see the key frames of
all the layers. Let's make sure we're
not selecting anything. Question, which key should we press to see the key
frames on the layers? Press the U key there. We can see that the
last keyframe is here, which means the
animation ends here. Let's place the time indicator here to shorten the time line. So called the work area. We'll move it manually or use
the short cut the end key. Now let's right click here and choose trim comp to work area. When we go back to
the main composition, we can see that this pre comp
has indeed been shortened. Now what's left to
do is simply time the animation in this pre comp with the animation
of the first scene. We can bring the pre
comp down here and move it relative to the animation
of the first scene. Let's place it roughly here. Give it a few seconds
to render the preview. Looks nice. Now let's create
the background for this. We'll use a layer called solid. There are two ways to
create a new solid layer. You can right click here, go to New, and select Solid. Or we can do it with
the short cut control. Let's change the
color of the solid to the bright color from the
palette using the eyedropper. Now place the solid below all the layers before
we render the scene. Let's delete the
unnecessary layers in it. Let's click here to
see the hidden layers. We can unlock the
color palette and erase it using the
backspace or delete key. Let's also delete
this text layer. Now let's shorten the work area here because there is
nothing happening here. Therefore, we don't need this entire section to
shorten the work area. Let's place the time
indicator here and press in. In this case, we don't need to crop and adjust the work area because after
effects will render only the selected
work area boundaries. Okay, now let's see the entire animation
from start to finish. Let's set the preview to fit. We'll turn off the grid, press the apostrophe key, and then press the Spacebar. Be patient, and give after effects some time to
render the preview. It looks good and is
ready for rendering. To render this scene, go to Composition and
choose Add to render, or we can use the
shortcut control M. This is the after
effects render Q panel. First we need to decide which format we want to
render this animation. We can do it by changing
the output mode. Let's click here and
now choose the H 0.264 40 megabits
per second format, which gives us a high
quality MP four file. Then in output two, we can choose where
to save the file. Let's save it in the renders
folder we created earlier. Now you can change the name of the file or leave it as it is. And then hit Save. And finally, let's hit the render button to
render the animation. Let's wait a few moments
now to see the render. We can open the output mode
and click on the link here. Let's see how it
looks. Looks nice. Now you can share
it on social media or add it to your
website portfolio. Okay. Now let's go back to
the project and organize it. Before we close it, we can, we can also close this pre comp. Now let's go to
the project panel and organize it using folders. Let's click here to create a folder and call it pre comps. Now let's make sure
we don't select anything and create another
folder named assets. Let's place here the color
palette and the folder of the solid that was automatically created when we created
the background. Now let's move the
precomp we created, which is of course in
our main composition, into the precomps folder. I recommend leaving
the main composition outside to differentiate it from other compositions
in the project. We can tag it with a blue color. Now let's press control
as to save the project. Now you can close the project. I hope you enjoyed
the lesson and I look forward to seeing
you in the next one. But before that,
you might want to take a quick break
for about 10 minutes. Get up from your
chair, stretch a bit, and make yourself some coffee. It'll give you a chance to recharge your brain
before the next lesson. See you there.
7. Section 2: Wavy text Animation: Hey everyone. In this lesson, we will create a
super cool animation using after effects
text layer animators. We'll take a step by step approach and break
it down into four parts. Here's the plan. First we'll make the text animation
and learn how to loop it. Next, we'll dig into
expressions and learn some nifty tricks to turn a simple animation
into a stylish one. Then we'll discover some advanced techniques
that will save us time. We'll create a
dynamic background, render the scene, and
organize the project. After that, we'll learn how to modify the animation we created and use more advanced techniques to make future changes easier. Finally, we'll
improve the animation even more and render
the final product. It's going to be awesome.
Let's get started.
8. Getting better with text animators: Let's lunch after effects. You can close this window for all of us to see the
same panel arrangements. Let's click on Default. Now let's create our
first composition. We'll name it Text
animation two. Now let's go to the Renderer, since in the previous lesson we changed the renderer
to Cinema four D. Let's switch it back
to classic three D. Now let's go back to Basic, and this time we'll
work in full HD format, which means 1,920 pixels in width and 1080 pixels in height. We'll work with 30
frames per second. The duration of the composition
will be 10 seconds. We'll change the
background to black. Let's click okay,
here and there. Okay, now let's import the color palette
into the project. Let's click here to
see the project panel. For convenience, let's set
the preview screen to fit. Now let's bring the color
palette into this project. For this double click on the gray area in
the project panel. Locate the folder we created for the lesson and enter
the Assets folder. Select the color palette
and click on Import. Now we can save the project
and give it a name. For this, let's use
the shortcut control. So let's find the folder
we created for the lesson. Next, go to the AE folder
we created for the lesson. Now we can click on the after effects file
of the first lesson. That way we will
sample this name. Now all we need to do is to
change it to number two. Great, now we can hit Save. All right, now let's create
the text layer for that, we'll choose the text tool
and write the word swag. Let's select the text. Go to the character tab and change the text
color to white. Next, change the
font to Montserrat. Choose the extra bold style. And save this font
for quick access, because we'll use it in future lessons on second thought, let's change the style to
black and set the size to 150. Let's press here so that all
the letters are uppercase. Now let's go to paragraph and make sure our text is aligned to the center and the writing
direction is left to right. Now let's go to a
line and click here and here to center the
layer in the composition. Now let's center the anchor
point of the text layer. We'll do it using a
useful shortcut control, Alt Home Mac users pay attention to how you
do it on your keyboard. Let's press control Alt Home. And there you go,
the anchor point. Jump to the center. Great.
Now let's go back to the selection tool using the shortcut V and start
to animate the text. As we learned in the
previous lesson, animate it using the
animators that after effects offers us when
working with text layers. To use the text, animators
first open the text layer, select the text, and then choose the position animator because that's what we want
the text to do. Move from top to bottom. Now the first thing we need to do is set the range
selector value, that is when the text starts
or ends the animation. Let's set the position of
the text at the bottom. We can change it at any
stage later in the project. For now, we're just trying to
see what works best for us. Let's write 120. Great, now let's open range selector one and
the advanced properties. Let's enlarge this panel a bit. Now we can change
the animation shape of this animator from
squared to ramp up. This way the
movement of the text will start from the first
letter to the last. Now to animate the text, we'll change the offset
parameter at this time. At the second zero,
let's set the offset to -100 After 2 seconds, we'll change the offset to 100. Let's see how it looks. As we learned when working
with text animators, we can make these key
frames s by pressing nine. Or we can set the velocity of
the key frames by entering the numbers in these
parameters Se high. Let's write 20, Se
low, let's write 80. Now let's make the letters return back down
in a wave shape. If I simply set the
offset back to -100 the letters will return from the last letter and not
from the first letter. Okay, I'll delete this keyframe, and let's see how
we can do that. To achieve the wavy look, we can duplicate the animator
and adjust the parameters. So select it and press
control D. Now let's open it. Just some parameters. The first thing we
need is to change the range selector from 120 to -120 This way the text will move in the
opposite direction. Next we need to see the key
frames of both animators. Select the layer and press you. Now we need to move the
key frames of animator two to start 1 second
after animator one. In other words, the animation
of the second animator will begin 1 second after the
animation of the first animator. Now let's close the
layer and reopen it to access all the parameters
of the animators. We'll go to the second animator and also reverse the velocity. We'll set the as high to
80 and the s low to 20. Now let's learn how to make this wave animation repeat
itself and make another wave. For this, we need to
duplicate the first animator. Because in this animator, the text performs the
upward animation. But first, let's change
the name of this animator. Select it, press enter
and name it Animator up. Let's call the animator
that makes the text go, the animator, because this is the animator responsible for the downward
movement of the text. Now let's duplicate
the up animator, Select it, press control D, and move it downwards. This animation should start
after the previous one. Let's select the
layer and press you. Now let's select these key
frames and move them to the position of
the time indicator while holding the shift key. Let's see how it looks. Great. Now let's make another wave and make
the text go down. One more time question. Which animator should we
duplicate to achieve this? To achieve that,
we will duplicate the down animator press
control and move it downwards. Press you to view
the key frames. Select the key frames of
the new animator and place them exactly in the middle of the previous
animators animation. Let's see what we got. Okay, now let's make this animation
play in a perfect loop. What is a loop animation? A loop animation is a
type of animation where the beginning and
end of the animation seamlessly blend together, creating an infinite loop. In other words, the
animation plays continuously without any
discernible start or end point. As you can see, the
text currently starts. Its animation completes it, and stops if we want it
to continue playing. First we need to find two identical frames at the beginning and end
of the animation. This. Let's go to the second, number one, when the text
is already in motion. Now let's position the work area at the same spot as
the time indicator. We can either manually drag the work area or use the
shortcut by pressing the B key. Now let's find the point in time where the text returns
to this position. Again, I think it's
somewhere around here. To be as precise as possible, we can use the take
snapshot function for this. Let's reach our first frame
and press take snapshot. Now let's try to find a frame similar to
what we captured. To compare this frame to the first frame, we
need to click here. It doesn't look similar. Let's continue searching.
We're getting closer. Let's move to the
second number three. There we find the right frame. Now what's left is to
finish the work area. At this time point, we can drag it manually or
use the shortcut. Now when we play the animation, we'll only see what exists within the boundaries
of the work area. Pay attention when the time
indicator reaches here. It will immediately start playing the animation
from the beginning. Because we found two
completely identical frames. At the start and end
of the animation, we created a perfect loop. We won't notice when the video ends and when it starts again. Now I want to show
you what would happen if we set the work area at a time point where the first and last frames
are not identical. Let's say we finished
the work area here. As you can see, an
unpleasant jump occurs. Therefore, it is very important when creating loops
to use take snapshot. Okay, I'll bring
everything back to normal and now we'll learn
how to cut the layer. We can manually
cut the layer like this or use the short cut
alt and left bracket. Now let's position
the time indicator at the end of the work area
while holding the shift key, cut the layer from the end. We'll press Alt and
the right bracket. And to make the animation
look more interesting, we can select the text and add some dots on the
sides of the text. Double click the text. Now click here and add three dots at the end of the
word and at the beginning. Let's see how it looks. I think it looks cool, but you don't have to do it. Okay, now let's
learn how to make this animation play for
more than 2 seconds. See you in the next part.
9. Learn how to loop the scene: To make this animation play
for more than 2 seconds. First of all, let's move the work area segment to the
beginning of the timeline. We'll also need to move
the layer itself here. Do it while holding
the shift key. Now we can expand the work area, close the layer, and move on. Now we need to nest this
layer into a pre comp. We can use the shortcut
control shift to do it. Now, change the
name to Swag comp. After that, make sure both
are selected and press okay. And don't forget to switch
back to the selection tool. Now, as you can see, the borders of this
layer are really large. There is a lot of
empty space here. In order to reduce the size of this pre comp, we
need to enter it. Now press control K to access the composition
setting of this pre comp. Make sure preview is checked and decrease the
dimensions of this comp. I think 1,000 in width should
be fine for the height. I believe 500 is good press. Okay, and let's place this layer in the center
of the composition. To see the center
of the composition, we can press the apostrophe key and use the action
title, Safe Guide. Now drag the layer here. You can move around with the
time indicator to see that the text stays within the
boundaries of the composition. And we don't move
this layer too much. I think we can move it up a bit. Let's check it one more time. All right, great.
We can move on now. Now let's go back to
the main composition and learn how to make
this pre play endlessly. Because now the animation
ends after 2 seconds. Because we've created a pre comp that starts and ends
at the same frame, we can make this precomp play in an endless loop using an
expression. What is expression? Expression is a piece of
code that you can use to automate and control various properties
of your animation. It is a powerful tool that
enables you to create complex animations
without having to key frame every single
element manually. Let's get closer a little bit. In our case, we will use a
loopout expression to create a loop expression
for a pre comp that starts and ends with
the same frame as ours. The first thing we need to do to place the time indicator
at the end of this layer. Now right click, go to time
and enable time remapping. You may see that the layer is
still cut off in this way. That's okay, we'll
fix it in a moment. What's more important is that after we click Enable
time remapping, we need to move one
frame backward and create an additional key frame
before the existing one. To do this, click here. Now we need to delete
the last keyframe, select it, and press Backspace. Now we'll create an expression
for these keyframes. To do this, we need to hold down the Alt key and
click on the stopwatch. This will open the
expression editor. We don't need to write anything, We'll use a built in
expression for this. Let's click on the
small arrow here, Go to Property, and
select this expression. To finish the operation, let's click here on the side. We can step back a bit. And now let's extend this layer to the end
of the composition. Now everything that happens
between these key frames, which is the entire animation, will keep repeating until
the end of the composition, making the entire animation
play endlessly next. Because we know that
we will duplicate this composition
several times soon, and each one will be
in a different color. We need to apply an effect called fill to this composition. Let's go to the effects
panel and type fill. Now let's drag the effect
onto the composition. Now to color it with the
colors of the palette, let's go back to
the project panel and port it into the scene, and scale it down while
holding the shift key. Let's place it here. Now let's select the precomp again
and go to Effects controls. If you don't see this panel, you can activate
it through window. All right, so select
the eye dropper. And select the bright
color from the palette. Now let's add a cool stroke
to the text precomp. To do this, we can right
click on the Layer, go to Layer Styles,
and select Stroke. There you have it.
There is the stroke. Now let's scroll down a bit until we see the layer
styles parameter. Let's open the stroke
here and change it a bit. Hide the background so we
can see what we're doing. Let's change the color
to the dark color, from the palette and the
thickness of the stroke to five. Now let's close all the properties of the
layer and move on. But before, let's press
control S to save the project. All right, now let's duplicate
this composition using a shortcut control D. Now let's create a small offset
between these two layers. And move this pre compa,
bit forward in time. Zoom in a bit, and move the bottom layer
three frames forward. Three frames are too much. Let's move it a bit closer. That looks better. Next, let's change the color of
this bottom layer. Let's enlarge the preview panel. Hold down the Spacebar, and drag the preview screen here until we see
the color palette. Alternatively, we can
simply select it. From here, press P to bring up the position parameter and move this layer here until we
see it next to the text. Now let's select
the bottom layer and change the color of
the fill effect to blue. Now let's duplicate it again. Press control D. Move the bottom layer,
two frames forward. Now let's change the
color to yellow. Duplicate it again. Move
it two frames forward, and change the color to pink. Let's do it one last
time. Duplicate it. Move it two frames forward, and this time sample the
dark color from the palette. Now let's set the
preview to fit. Create a loop for
this animation. You might notice
that the animation at first looks a little strange. That's because the bottom layers got moved around
in the timeline. Let's see how we can fix this. First, let's go to a
point in time where we see all the layers together.
For example, here. Now let's select all the layers. Right click, Go to Markers
and select Add Marker. This way we can know that this is the starting point
for each of the layers. In order to create a
perfect loop like we did before when we created
the text animation. Let's find a point in time where the text reaches
the same position as it was at the beginning. Question, what tool can help
us to create a perfect loop? We will use the
take snapshot tool. Let's take a snapshot
of this frame. Now let's go to the
second number eight, not the third second because the video will be
very short that way. Okay, let's stand here with the time indicator and compare this frame to
the first frame we had. That's not good. Let's
check this frame. We'll continue doing this until we reach the
perfect moment. Here it is, at the eighth, second, and four frames. Let's create a
marker here as well. Now let's shorten the work
area here using the end key. Now let's go back to the point we marked
in the beginning and shorten the work area from
here as well, using the B key. Now we have created
a perfect loop. Meaning that when the
animation reaches this point, it will start playing from the beginning without us
noticing when it happened. Let's press the Spacebar
and see how it looks. Looks great. Now let's
delete the color palette. We don't need it anymore to
prepare for the next step. Let's clean up our scene. First, we'll move the
time indicator to the beginning of the work area while holding the shift key. Now well select all the layers, Then we'll use the
shortcut alt and left bracket to cut this
section of the layers. Next we'll place the work area and all the layers
at the beginning of the timeline. Great job. Now let's move on to the
next step where we'll discover time saving methods for editing text layers
and after effects. But before that,
you might want to take a quick break
for about 10 minutes, get up from your
chair, stretch a bit, and make yourself some coffee. It'll give you a chance
to recharge your brain before the next
lesson. See you there.
10. Work smarter : Welcome back. Please note, in case we want to
scale up this comp, it might become pixilated
and lose quality. To avoid this, we can activate the collapse
function for this layer. The collapse
transformations function is a powerful feature
in after effects that allows you to maintain
the quality and scalability of vector
or three D layers. When nested inside
a pre composition. It gives you more flexibility in working with complex
compositions And helps ensure that your designs remain sharp and
visually appealing. If I turn on this function
for our pre comp, you'll notice a
major improvement in the quality right away. All right, I will
bring it back to 100. If you don't see this
icon, you can click here. Let's apply the collapse
function to all layers. Now let's say we want to move the text to
another location. If we move this layer, the other layers will
remain in place. Let's see what we
need to do so that all of them move along
with the first layer. We need to select all
layers except the first one and use parent and link to
link them to the first layer. Let's drag the pick whip of all layers to the
first layer like this. Now when we move
the first layer, the rest of the layers
will move with it. All right, let's set
the preview to fit. Now let's select the
first pre comp press and increase the size
of the layers to 150. As you can see, after
scaling the layers, the stroke did not
scale proportionally, which made it appear thinner. If we want to make it thicker, instead of opening each
layer manually and adjusting the size property that controls the
stroke thickness, we can find this property using the search bar to display
it for all layers. Let's select all of them. Type size in the search
bar and press Enter. Now you will see the
size property which is associated with the
stroke parameter found in the layer styles. Let's enlarge this panel. Instead of changing the
thickness one by one, we can link these properties just as we link
the layers before. As you can see next to
size there is a pick whip. This means we can link this property to
any other property. Let's link the size of this layer to the size
of the first layer. Now let's do the same for
the rest of the layers. Now we control the line thickness of all the
layers to one layer. This will make it much easier for us to handle
changes in the future. Let's change it to six. We can do the same thing for the property that controls
the color of the stroke. For this, let's delete the
word size from the search bar. Select all the layers, type color here,
and press Enter. Okay, we just need to figure out which exact color
we're talking about. Out of all the options here, we can see that this color
belongs to the fill effect, which is not what we need. Here we have a color
that belongs to stroke, which is the one
we're looking for. Let's link all the
color properties of this layer to the color of
the first layer like this. Let's do the same for
the rest of the layers. Now if we need to make
changes in the future, we don't have to do it for
each layer separately. We control this property
through one layer. Okay, let's close
the search bar, save the project, and move on. Now let's create this
cool animated background that we see in the example. First we need to create a solid. Click here, go to New,
and select Solid. Let's choose the
blue color Enter here and darken it a bit. Now click Okay. Here and here. Now let's bring the solid we created below,
all the layers. Next to create the grid, go to Effects and search
for the effect called grid. Drag the effect onto our solid. And let's change its parameters first to see both the
grid and the solid. Let's change the blending
mode to multiply. Now let's change the
color of the grid to the dark color from
the color palette. To make this grid symmetrical, we've got two choices. We can either change it using corner point or control
it with slider. Now with the slider, we can make the grid
bigger or smaller, so it stays symmetrical. Let's set it to 140. Then we can control the
thickness of the grid lines. Let's change it to five. Now to animate the grid, we need to change the value
of a parameter called anchor. We can also move at
using the small handle located here. Let's
drag it here. While holding down
the shift key, let's set key frames
for this parameter. Make sure you are at the
beginning of the timeline. And create a key frame. To see the key frame we created, let's select the
layer and press you. Now let's go to the end of the animation and move
the grid to the side. Let's drag this small handle here while holding
down the shift key. Let's see what we've got. Let after effects a few
seconds to render the preview. All right, did you notice a slight jump in
the background when the animation started
playing again? I'll zoom in a bit so
we can see it better. Pay attention to what
happens in this area. It happened because the
grid didn't loop properly. To create a loop for the grid, we need to move it in
a way that it reaches the same point as it appeared at the beginning
of the animation. We already know how to do that. Let's capture a snapshot
of the frame at the beginning of the animation
using take snapshot. Now let's go to the end of the animation and see if the position of the
grid is correct. As you can see, the
grid at the end of the animation doesn't look the same as it did at the beginning. To make it look the same
as in the beginning, we need to adjust
the last keyframe and move the grid
slightly to the side. Let's compare it. Now
We're getting very close. It is very important to
hover over the key frame we want to change when
we change the value. Let's move it a bit more there. We hit the point perfectly. Let's see it again. With that, we have finished animating the scene and we are ready
to render the animation. Let's close this layer. Now to render this scene, we can use the shortcut control M. Now we are in the after
effects render panel. Here we see which composition
we are rendering. Let's choose to render
it in H 0.264 format, which is an MP four file. Now let's choose to save the file and the renders
folder we created. We can leave the name
as it is right now, which is the name
of the composition. I have no problem with that. Let's click on Save and then
click on the Render button. Let's wait until the
render is complete. Now to see the render, we just need to head over to the output mode and
click on the link here. It'll take us right to the
folder with the video file. Then we can watch it and make
sure everything looks good. Great, Now I want us to get back to the project
and learn how to make changes in case
we want to change something in the design or
the animation of the text. But before learning
how to make changes, let's organize our
project first. For that, let's go back
to the project panel. If you don't see it here, you can click on the arrows
here and select Project. All right, so first let's create a new folder
called Assets. Now click here to
ensure you are not selecting anything and
create another folder, We call it pre comps. Now into the Assets folder, we will drag the color palette
and the solids folder. Let's drag this precomp
into the precomps folder. Finally, let's label the
main composition in blue. Great, now let's close the effects and presets tab and press control S to
save the project. Now we are ready to move on to the final part of this
lesson. See you there.
11. Learn how to deal with changes: If we want to switch up the
way our text moves around, we got to get into the pre
comp of the text animation. Now we need to open
the layer and change the range selector of the
animator called position. But instead of opening all the animators and finding
this property manually, we can select the layer and type the name of the property we are looking for in
the search bar. Now we see all the properties
with the name position. Of course, we are referring
to the positions of the animators and
not the position of the layer transforms. Now we can change
all the animators. In the up animators,
let's write 150. And in the down
animators we'll write -150 If we want to exaggerate
the animation even more, we can change the
positions to 180. Let's see how it looks. I think it looks great. Now let's go back to
the main composition and see how it looks together
with the other pre comps. Let after effects render
the preview for a minute. Looks great. Okay,
now let's see what we need to do if we want to change the offset
of all the layers. Let's say we want the
offset to be a bit bigger. To do this, let's go to a point in time where we
can see all the layers. Now select all the layers
except for the first one. We'll select that layer, hold down the shift key, select the last layer, and move everything
two frames forward. Now let's hold down the control key and click on
that layer to deselect it. Then we'll move those layers, two frames forward as well. Let's repeat this
action a few times. Now, as you can see, we have created a more extreme
offset between the layers. Now in order to maintain
the perfect loop, let's create new markers
according to the new animation. Let's hover over here
with the time indicator. Select all the layers. Right click. Go to Markers and delete all the markers
we currently have. Then right click again
and create new markers. Now let's capture this frame. Next, we'll try to find that same frame as
in the beginning. There I found the
point in time where the frame looks exactly the
same as in the beginning. Now let's create
markers here as well. Now let's cut this
layer from here using the alt and the
left bracket shortcut. Let's bring all
these layers back to the beginning of the timeline
and see what we've got. There. You have
it. We've created a new loop that works
perfectly fine. Now let's see what
we need to do to change the behavior of
the text animation. For that, we need to
go back to the text pre comp and change some
properties in the animators. For now, let's close
all the animators. Now let's open the
range selector of this animator and also open
the advanced settings. These are the two properties
we need to change to make our animation behave differently
in this case as well, Instead of manually finding these properties
for each animator, we can type ease in the
search bar and press enter. Now we can see these properties
for all the animators. Since we have two animators
of the same type, animator up, animator up two. We can link the
properties of animator up two to the properties
of animator up. Let's drag the pick whip
of s high of animator up two and link it to ease
high of animator up one. Let's do the same with low. Now let's connect animator
down two with animator down. We'll connect these
two properties to the ones we have here. Now we have control
over the behavior of the text animation
through these animators. And the rest will
automatically change. So let's set it to 90
here and ten here here. Let's set it to ten,
and here to 90. Now the text moves in
a more extreme way. We can go back to
the main composition and see how it all
looks together. If we don't like it, we can go back to the text and
change the values. Both of these can be closed.
Let's see how it looks. If we change the
E's to 85 for both. Let's do the same thing here. Let's see how it looks
in the main composition. To see the result faster, we can reduce the preview
quality to quarter. Okay, now I'll bring the
preview quality back to full. Let's go back to the text and bring back the ease to
its original setting. One last thing we'll
do before moving on is just like we
link those properties, let's also link the position
properties of the animators. Let's type position again in the search bar
and press enter. Now let's link them
between the animators. Let's take the position
of animator up two to the position
of animator up. Now let's link the
position of animator down two to the position
of animator down. Every time we change this, it will change accordingly. Every time we change this one, it will change
accordingly as well. Just like we did
with the S. Okay, let's close both of these
animators and the search bar. Now let's change the
font of the text. I'll change it to the Ezra font. Instead of searching
for it manually, we can go to the saved fonts
and select it from there. Now, click here, and with the up and down arrows
on the keyboard, choose a different style. I will stick with bold. Now let's go back to the selection tool and see how it looks in the
main composition. I don't like the current offset. I think it's too extreme. Let's practice it again and change the offset one more time. It's important for me to
repeat the same actions, because that's how you'll learn this topic in the
best way possible. Okay, let's select
all these layers and move them two frames back. Now let's hold the control key
and click on this layer to deselect it and move these
layers two frames back. Let's repeat this action
until the last layer. Make sure you didn't
affect the loop of this animation. Let's
see it from here. And try to find some
unnecessary jumps when the animation is
over and starts again. Great, it looks good.
Now let's improve the visibility of this animation by moving the last
layer to the side. Let's select these
layers and press the right arrow on the keyboard while holding down
the shift key. Hold the control key, and click on this
layer to deselect it. Now let's move these
layers to the right. Let's do the same for
the rest of the layers. It looks a bit more interesting. Now let's enlarge
the text a bit. For this, select only
the first layer, press and set it to 150 or 160. The other layers will scale
accordingly because we link them using the parent and link feature to
the first layer. If you want to change something in the stroke of the text, simply type stroke
in the search bar. Press Enter, and you will
see the stroke parameters. Let's open it, and
here you can change the thickness of the
stroke or its color. This will change in the
other layers as well, because we link these properties to the properties
of the first layer. Now let's talk about the grid. If you want to make
changes to the grid, you need to select
the solid layer where the grid
effect is applied. Then go to the effects controls and make the desired changes. If you want to change
the background color, you need to select
the solid layer and use the shortcut
controls, Shift Y. This will take you to the
settings of that solid layer, and from here you can
easily change the color. Then click okay here and here. Now we are ready to
render it again. Press control M,
choose to render it in the H 0.264 format, which is an MP four
file in output. To go to the folder
named renders, let's select our last render so that the new
render replaces it. Next, click on the render
button and then hit Okay. Now we just need to wait
until the rendering is complete to see the
rendered output. Open the output mode and
click on the link here. Let's open the video
and see how it looks. Looks nice. Now you can use this animation
in your future projects. You can easily replace
the text and change the design or the animation in a more convenient
and faster way. If you enjoy the course. I would greatly
appreciate it if you could rate it and
provide feedback. I know if you found the
chorus interesting or not. Okay, now let's go
back to the project. Let's save the project
by pressing control. Now go back to the
project panel. For those who don't see it, click on the arrows here
and select Project. And that's it for this lesson. I hope you enjoyed it, and I can't wait to see
you in the next lesson. But before that,
you might want to take a quick break
for about 10 minutes. Get up from your
chair, stretch a bit, and make yourself some coffee. It'll give you a chance to recharge your brain
before the next lesson. See you there.
12. Section 3: Vertical text animation: Hi there. In this lesson, we will create a super cool
vertical text animation. We will continue learning about the text animators of text
layers and after effects, but in a more advanced way. So far, we have created an animator with one
position property. In this lesson, we
will learn how to add and combine more
than one property. We will break this lesson into three parts and cover
some important stuff. In the first part,
we will create a complex vertical
text animation using a single animator with
five different parameters. After that, we will
learn how to convert the animation we created
into a horizontal text line. Lastly, we will learn how to handle changes
in the text and its size and then render the animation and
organize the project. Before we close it,
let's get started. It's going to be awesome.
13. Learn advanced text animators techniques: Welcome back. Let's lunch. After effects together,
you can close this window. And to see the same
panel arrangements, let's click on Default. Now let's create our
first composition. We'll name it Text
animation three. We'll work in the
full HD format, which means 1,920 pixels in width and 1080
pixels in height. Set the frame rate to 30, 10 seconds for the duration. And we'll change the
background to black. Then click okay, here and there. Okay, now let's import the color palette
into the project. Double click on the gray
area in the project panel, select the color palette, and click on Import. Now we can save the project
and give it a name. Let's find the folder we
created for the lesson. Enter the AE folder
and give a name to the after effects file
we're currently working on. You can select this project, so that the name will change and change the number to three. Then click on Save. Now let's create our first text layer. Let's choose the text tool, change the color to white. And to make this lesson
more interesting, let's create vertical text. For that, click and hold the Text Tool and select
the vertical type tool. Now let's click
here once to open the text line and
write typography. Now let's click twice on
the text to select it. Before moving on,
don't forget to enter the paragraph panel
to ensure the text is aligned to the center and its writing direction is from
left to right. All right. Now let's change the
font to bell story. Next, change the font
style to display heavy, set the size to 80,
and press Enter. Now let's select
the selection tool. Press the apostrophe key to open the grid and
move the text here. Next, let's click here to convert all the
letters to upper case. Now using the aligned tool, let's ensure that this layer is positioned at the center
of the composition. Let's move the text
slightly to the left. All right, now let's
open the layer. Select the text and choose
the position animator. Now I want to set that, this text will
reach this specific point in the composition. To do it, we need to set a changing value
for this animator. Which means we need to change the position property value in the range selector
of this animator. Drag it until the text reaches the first
line of the grid. We can type in 1085. Now let's open the range
selector and advanced settings. We can enlarge this panel
to see all the properties. For now, let's set the animation shape
to ramp up this way. When the offset is at -100 the text will be
in the position we set. And when the offset is at 100, the text will return to
its original position. Okay, now let's set that at
this point in the time line. At the second number zero, the offset will be 100. Let's create the
first key frame. Now let's place
the time indicator at the second number two and set the offset to -100
Let's see what we've got. As you can see, the text starts moving from
its last letter. In this case it doesn't
bother me because this time we will click here to
make this animation random. This way the letters will
start moving randomly. Now let's add additional
parameters to the key frames we
created with the offset. Currently we have one
position parameter. Let's say that now we want to add a blur animation
to the text. I can select the text, then go to Animate and create another animator
with the blur property. But this way I will have to make all the changes
to the new animator. As I did to the first one, there's a better way to add additional animation
to the text. I'll delete this animator, and let's do it together. Instead of creating
a new animator, we can add additional properties to our existing animator. Let's select the animator. Click on Ad, go to
property and choose blur. Now let's set the change
value for the blur to 30. Now these key frames refer to both properties
in this animator. This animator refers to the
position and the blur values. Now let's add another property. Let's choose opacity, because I want the text to disappear when it reaches here. Let's set the changing value
to this parameter, right? Zero here. Now our animator will also refer to the data we gave
to the position parameter, the data we gave to
the blur parameter, and the data of the
opacity parameter. Let's go crazy and add
another parameter to the animation called
character offset. Let's write ten here. What it does is scramble the
letters in our text layer. Let's see how it
all looks together. Okay, now let's make the
movement a bit more interesting. By changing the ease
of this animator, we can enlarge this panel to
see more of the properties. Now open the range selector and the advanced settings and
write 85 for both values. Let's see how it looks. I think it looks great. Now we can move on to create
the second text layer, which is supposed to be on
the other side of the scene. Then we will animate it and blend it with the
animation we have created. For this, we can duplicate this layer using the
control shortcut. Now let's move the
new layer here. We'll drag it while
holding the shift key. Next, let's click on this layer twice and change
the word to animation. Now press control Enter
to exit the text line. Go back to the selection tool and adjust the parameters
of the animator. And this layer,
because this layer has the same animator
exactly as this layer, this text also
moves to the side. Let's change a few things in our animator to reverse the
direction of this animation. Open the animator to
see all its parameters. First, we will change the animation direction in
the position parameter. Instead of 1085, we'll
change it to minus 1085. Now let's open the
advanced section and also change the animation shape
from ramp up to ramp down. Now let's see how it looks. You can turn off this
layer to see it better. Okay, it looks good. We can turn this layer back on. Now let's make these layers
enter one after the other. For this, we need to see all the key frames
of both layers. Let's select both
layers and press you. Now let's go to the
end of the animation with the time indicator
and cut the layers. Press salt and the
right bracket key. Now drag the layer of the word animation a
bit farther in time. Let's say to frame number 15.
Let's see what we've got. Now let's improve the look of this scene and prepare it
to play in an endless loop. For this, we need to place both of these layers
into a pre comp. Let's select them
and press Control Shift C. We'll call
this text comp one. And hit Okay. Now
let's create a new solid as a background
layer. Right click here. Go to New and select Solid. Change the color to bright
color from the palette. Press. Okay, and bring it down. Now let's enter
the text pre comp, Select the palette from here so that we can see
the colors again. Let's select both layers and change the color to dark color. You can turn off
the background of the preview screen here
so you can see it better. Let's go back to the main composition and
see how it looks. Okay, now let's make the text, make the reverse motion. For that, we can duplicate
the pre comp from here. Press control D. Next, drag the new pre comp
to the end of the first one to make it play in reverse. Right click on it, go to time and choose
time, reverse layer. What will happen now is that this pre comp will
play from the end to the beginning altogether,
it looks like this. When using this trick, it's very important to zoom in
and make sure that the layers don't
overlap each other and that they are not far
apart from each other. All right, now let's zoom out and to see this
animation play in a loop. Go to the end of
this animation and shorten the work
area. Let's press in. Let's see how it looks. Now we see the animation
playing in a perfect loop. It looks great. Now let's learn how we can keep
the same animation, but this time on a
horizontally written text. And we will do it in the
next part. So see you there.
14. Convert a vertical text animation to a horizontal: Welcome back. First, to create this animation on
horizontally written text, let's duplicate this pre comp
through the project panel. This way we will create
the same pre comp, but if we make changes to it, we won't affect the
existing pre comp. If you want to learn
more about pre comps, feel free to watch
the free course that I mentioned at the
beginning of this course. You can find the link
in the PDF file found in the main folder of the
course you downloaded from me. Okay, let's select the pre comp and press control
D to duplicate it. Now let's enter this pre comp and create a horizontal text. Let's long press the text tool and select the regular
text this time. Now write typography, then press control
and then the V key. Let's place the word up here. We can go to a line
and ensure that the text is aligned to the
center of the composition. Now let's duplicate
this layer, select it, and press control D. Now drag it down here and change
the text to animation. Now let's quickly change
the names of our layers. I just want the names to
start with capital letters. Next, let's select both of
these layers and tag them with a different color so
we can distinguish between the vertical
and regular texts. Now let's switch back
to the selection tool. And to save some time, we can copy the
existing animator on this layer and paste it
on one of our new layers. Let's open this layer. Select the animator and
press control C to copy it. Now let's select
this layer snap. I just realized that I didn't change the
name of this layer. Let me fix this real quick. All right, now let's select this layer and press control
V to paste the animator. Now if we press the U key, we'll see that the key
frames are located here. This happened because when
we passed the key frames, we were standing at
this point in time with the time indicator.
That's not a problem. Let's just select them and move them to the beginning
of the animation. Now let's turn off these two
layers and see what we have. These letters move sideways
and not downwards. That's because we
haven't changed anything in the animator yet. Let's open the
animator and change the changing value in
the position parameter. There is the range
selector of this animator. Since we don't want the
text to move sideways, we'll write zero here and go to the end
of this animation. To set a new changing
point for this animator, we want the final position of
the text to be around here. Let's write 800. Now the text will move to
the new position we set. Now let's do the same
thing for the second text. Let's close this one,
open this layer, and let's copy this animator
from this layer with control C. Paste it onto this layer. This time let's reach the
beginning of the animation. And then press control V. Now let's also change the value of the position parameter here. Let's reopen this layer to
see the animator properties. And let's write zero here. Now we need to make
this text move upwards. Let's set it to -800
Let's see how it looks. Let's turn off this
layer to see it better. Now we see that the text moves
from top to bottom. Great. Now let's move this layer here to create the
same offset as before. Now we can delete
these two layers. From here, we can
turn on this layer. And there we created the same animation
on horizontal text. Now let's change the
size of the text to 150. Enlarge the second text as well. Let's see how it looks. Looks great. Now let's make this animation
play in a loop, as we did earlier for the
vertical text animation. Now let's go back to
the main composition and drag the new pre comp here. We can turn off these
layers for now. Now let's duplicate this
pre comp, Move it here. Zoom in to ensure that the layer is placed exactly
after the first one. Right click, Go to time and
select time reverse layer. Let's see how it looks. Looks great. Now let's turn off these two
layers and bring back the vertical text to learn what we should
do if we want to change a few things
in the animation or the design of the text. We will do that in the
next part. See you there.
15. Let's render the final animation and orginize the project: Let's say we don't want the
blur in this animation. For enter, this pre comp, let's turn off the background
to see what we're doing. Now simply select both layers and search for blur
in the search bar. Press Enter and change the value in this
animator to zero. Let's do the same in the
animator for this layer. As you can see, the
blur disappears. Now we can close the search bar and check how that
looks without a blur. Let's go back to the main composition and
see how it looks. I think it looks great. Now let's turn off these
layers and bring back the horizontal animation
to learn how to deal with changes in the
design or the animation. Let's say the position
of the top text is too high and the position of
the bottom text is too low. To change that, we need
to go into this pre comp. Let's turn off the
background here as well. Let's say we want this text to start its
animation from here. Let's turn off this layer for now so it doesn't interfere. Let's see how it looks
after we move the layer. As you can see, the text
goes down too much. To change that,
we need to modify the position property in
the animator of this layer. Select the layer
and type position in the search bar
and press Enter. As you can see, there are two
position properties here, one for the layers transforms
and one for the animator. We will refer to the
animators position property. The text goes down at the end of the animation because the
value now stands at 800. Let's stay here with
the time indicator and change the value according
to the red markers. We can see where the
text is positioned. We can set it to 250. Now let's see how it looks. Okay, it looks good. Now let's also change
the position of the second layer and adjust the position parameter of
the animator for this layer. First we need to move the layer here where the
first text arrives. Let's turn off this
layer for now and modify the position
parameter of the animator. Currently, the text is
positioned at the top. Let's select the layer, go to the search bar, and delete one letter. So after effects, we'll find the position
property once again. Now let's change it to -250 Let's close the layer
and the search bar, then turn on the second layer and see that
everything works fine. We can set the preview to fit. To see it up close, it seems
that everything is okay. Now let's go back to the
main composition and see how it looks with the
background. It looks excellent. And now let's render
the animation. And turn off the
vertical animation because this is the
one I want to render. All right, it looks nice. Now press control M. Choose to render it in
the H 0.264 format, which is a high
quality MP four file. Now let's choose to save the file in the render
folder we created. The name is good. Press save and click on the render button. Now let's wait
until the render is finished to see the render. We can open the output mode
and click on the link here. Let's open the video
and see how it looks. If you also get an
additional strange file alongside the P four
file, simply delete it. Okay, let's open the correct
file and see what we've created. It looks excellent. Now you can post this video on social media and showcase it
on your portfolio website. If you enjoyed the course, I would greatly appreciate it if you rate this course
based on how you feel and leave feedback so I know if you enjoyed
the course or not. Okay, let's get back
to our project now. Let's go to the project panel
and organize the project. Let's create a new
folder called pre comps. Make sure we don't
select anything, and create another
folder called Assets. Now put the color palette and the solids folder inside it. And in the precomps folder, put all the pre comps we
created in this project, except for the main composition, which we can tag in blue. Now we can close all
these pre comps. Next, let's save the project. Press control, and
now you can close it. You can use this project for your future projects as well. Just remember when
you make changes, update the animator parameters
as we did just now. All right, I hope
you enjoyed it, and I see you in
the next lesson. But before that,
you might want to take a quick break
for about 10 minutes. Get up from your
chair, stretch a bit, and make yourself some coffee. It'll give you a chance
to recharge your brain before the next
lesson. See you there.
16. Section 4: Paragraph Animation: In this lesson, we will create a super cool text
animation as we continue learning about
text animators and after effects in a
more professional way. But this time we will do
it with a text paragraph instead of a single text
line as we have done so far, this lesson is divided into four parts
which we will learn. First, we'll start by creating
the first text paragraph. After that, we'll get into animating the text with
a complex animator. We'll use some new parameters to make the text move
in a really unique way. Not only that, we'll also learn how to work with more
than one animator. Then we'll create a
second paragraph. Next, we'll organize our panels so we can work more efficiently. Then we'll animate the
second paragraph and create a cool transition
between the first one. We'll finish this part by animating the third
paragraph and combining it with a
smooth transition between the rest
of the paragraphs. In the final part, we'll make our animation look even better by adding some simple effects. And we'll learn how
to create a pause in the animation so that the viewer has enough time to
read what is written. Finally, we'll
render the animation and organize the project
before closing it. It's going to be awesome.
Let's get started.
17. Learn how to work with text paragraph: So first, let's open
after effects together. As always, we can
close this window. And to make sure we all see
the same panel layouts, let's click on Default. Now let's click on
New Composition and set the settings for
our first composition. Let's name it Text
Animation four. We'll work in full HD format. Set the frame rate to 30 and
the duration to 20 seconds. Finally, let's change
the background to black. Click okay, Here and here. Now let's import the color
palette to the project. Double click on the gray
area in the project panel. Find the folder we created for this lesson and enter
the Assets folder. Select the color palette
and click on Import. Okay, now we can save the
project and give it a name. Let's find the folder we
created for the lesson. Then enter the AE folder and name the after effects file
we're currently working on. We can select this
project so that the name changes and replace
the extension with four. Now click on Save. Now let's type our
text For this, let's use the text I
prepared for this lesson. Navigate to our Assets
folder and open this file. This is the text we will
use in this lesson. Great, let's copy
the first paragraph. We'll select it
and press control C. Now let's go back
to our project. Select the text tool and
create a text box like this. Now press control V
to paste the text. Click once here, then press control to select all
the text in this box. Let's change the font size
to 30 and press Enter. Let's go to Paragraph, Align the text to the left. Now let's go back to character and change the text
color to white. Then let's adjust the
size of the box so that the text fits nicely inside
something like this. To separate the
title from the text, click once here,
then press Enter. Now let's select all the text. Accept the title and change
the font to Ezra regular. Next, click here to cancel
the capital letters function. Now let's select the title, set the size to 40, and change the font
style to Bell Story. Display light here as well. Let's uncheck the
capital letters. All right, now we can go back to the selection tool and move
on on. Second thought. Let's change the style of
the title to display bold. Great. Adjust the
box a bit like this. Now let's press here and press Enter to separate this
part from the line. Make sure there is no
hidden text below. I think that the text
size should be smaller. Let's select it and
change the size to 28. Now adjust the box
according to the new size. One last thing, let's
select the title and color it. All right. Now let's make a final
adjustment to the text, because I don't like how this part of the
paragraph looks. Click here to see the text
box and drag it to the right. I'm doing all these adjustments so you can practice working with the text box more.
This is better. Now let's select the
selection tool and continue. After we've designed
the paragraph and we're satisfied
with its structure, let's center the anchor point of this layer using
the shortcut. We learned control. Now let's press the
apostrophe key to display the grid and
place the layer here, because later we will add two additional paragraphs
here and here. And in order to have some space for the two additional
paragraphs, let's shrink this layer a bit. Press S to bring up the scale
parameter and set it to 80. It's too small. Let's try 90. Yes, that's better. Let's close the layer and move it here. Okay, we can press the apostrophe key again
to close the grid. Now let's make sure
the paragraph is centered in the composition
using the aligned tool. Click here before moving
to the next part. Let's enlarge this
panel so we can see all the properties we
are going to add soon. Now we are ready to move on to the next part. See you there.
18. Advanced text paragraph animation: Welcome back. So first
let's open the layer. We can close that, and now let's select the text and create
the first animator. We'll choose position
because this is one of the changes that
the paragraph will make. Now let's zoom in and position the preview screen so we
can see the text up close. Great. Now let's decide on the change point
for this text. In our case we want the text, we'll enter the scene
from the bottom. Let's write 100. After that, let's open the range
selector and advanced. Let's enlarge this
panel and zoom out a bit to see the
movement we will create. Okay, so first we can already set the animator
shape to ramp up, because we want the text to enter from the first
letter to the last. If we change the offset, we can see that it's
indeed happening. Now I want the text to enter word by word, not
letter by letter. We change the offset. We can see that the text
moves word by word. We can also change
the text entry to line by line. It
looks like this. In this case, I
prefer word by word. Okay, now let's
change the offset to -100 Now let's
make sure we're at the beginning of
the timeline and create the first key
frame with a value of -100 Now let's go to the second number two and
change the offset to 100. Next, let's adjust the animation behavior
to make it smoother. Let's set the E is high to
20 and the is low to 80. Let's see how it looks. Now let's add a nice
dissolving animation. For this, select the animator, go to Add property
and choose Opacity. Now let's change the value
of this property to zero, since we chose to ramp up. The animator knows that
when the offset is at -100 the text should
have a zero opacity. When the offset reaches 100, then the opacity
of the text should return to the original
opacity of this layer, which is 100% Okay, I think the text is starting to come from a very low point. To change that, we need to
adjust the position parameter. Let's write 80, maybe 50. Let's see how it
looks much better, but I think that the
title is too small. Let's select it,
increase it to 45, and make sure we didn't hide the rest of the text
due to this action. I make all these changes
to show you that the animation process
is not set in stone. We always change and
update things as we work until we achieve
something we're happy with. Okay, we've finished creating the animator responsible
for the text entry. Now I want the
paragraph to move to the right after it's finished
with the entry animation. This means that we need to make another change in the
position property. In cases like this, we need to create a new animator
because we already have a position parameter
in our first animator which is responsible for moving the text from
the bottom to the top. Since we need to create a
new motion to the right, which is completely
different from the position animation
we currently have. We need to create a new animator with a different position value. Let's select the text
again from here, and go to Animate to create
a new position property. Before we adjust
the new animator, let's press the apostrophe
key to display the grid. This way we can see
where to move the text. Now let's simply
change the value of the position parameter
for the new animator. Let's say we want the
text to reach this point. Let's write 600. Now let's open the range
selector and advanced. Let's change the animators
shape to ramp up. If we change the offset, it seems that the text is moving from the last
word to the first. That's not what we
want this time. Let's change the animators
shape to ramp down. This way the text will move from the first
letter to the last. Let's change the offset to -100 and animate this animator. We want the movement
to start only after the entire text appears. That is, only after
the animation of the first animator finishes
at the second number two, let's create the first key
frame here with an offset of -100 And in the
second number four, let's change the offset to 100. Now let's make the
animation smoother. Let's keep the same data
as in the first animator. Set these high to 20
and the low to 80. Let's see how it
looks. Nice job. Now we're ready to add
an additional parameter. This time we'll add a rotation
to the second animator. For that, let's press Add, go to Property, and
select Rotation. Now let's set a value
for this parameter. For now, let's write 90
degrees and see how it looks. If we zoom in a bit on the text, we can see that currently each letter rotates
individually. And it rotates from
its bottom part. That's because the
anchor point of each letter is positioned
at the bottom. For text layers, there's an anchor point of
the layer itself. And there is also
an anchor point for the text to change this, let's open more options. First, let's change the
anchor point behavior of this text layer to word. Now there is an anchor point for each word and not for
each letter As before, we can also change it to line. This way there will be an anchor point for each
line and not for each word. Now let's change the location
of the anchor point. If we get a bit closer, we can see there's a
small red X icon here, symbolizing the anchor point. We can change its
location from here. Let's change it to -36 This way, the anchor point will be positioned in the
middle of each row. Important not to move the
anchor point too far from the text because that will complicate the
animation later on. Let's write -35 here. Now let's return to
the second animator and add a nice
dissolving animation. We can do it by
adding opacity to this animator, right? Zero here. Now, when we reach
the last frame, the text will start to disappear while moving aside and rotating. Now let's make this
animator a bit more interesting and
add an additional parameter called tracking. To see what it does,
let's go to the point in time where the text is already
starting to move aside. Now let's change the
value of this parameter. As you can see, it causes the letters of the text to
separate from each other. Let's write ten here and see
how it looks. It looks nice. Now let's set the
preview back to fit and see all the animation
we have created so far. As you can see, the text is moving too much to
the right question. Which property in our animator do we need to change
in order to fix this? To fix this, all we
need to do is reduce the data in the
position parameter of the second animator. Let's write 300 and
see how it looks. Let's try 200. Still too much. Maybe 100. Let's see
it one more time. I think 100 is better. If you want to make all this movement rise a little higher, you can do it either by moving the anchor point of this text paragraph or by adjusting it. You can play around with it
and change the values here. Then move the time
indicator to check the movement
direction. All right. I will set it back
to -35 as it was. All right, let's move on. Let's close all
the parameters and continue creating the
second text paragraph. To create another paragraph, we can duplicate the paragraph we already have in the scene. Because it already has
all the animators set up. We just need to
change the text and make some modifications
to the animators. Let's select the layer
and press control D. Now let's position
the time indicator here so we can see the text. Then let's go to
a line and center the new layer to the
composition center. Next, let's open the
text file again. But for now, don't do
anything because I want to show you the issue you might encounter when switching
between texts. Okay, let's say I'm copying the text now and pasting
it into the new text box. Notice that after
pasting the text, the text will appear in the
same design as the title. This is not what I want, let's see how to
do it correctly. Now, do it together with me. First, let's only copy the title and paste it
in the titles Place On. Let's only copy the text and paste it in the
texts Place On. Now all we need to do is adjust the text box and the
spacing between the lines. Move a line here,
reduce it slightly. Let's enlarge the
box from the bottom. That's better. Now let's select the color palette and change the color of the
title to orange. Additionally, we can
change the color of the layer to differentiate
between the texts. After we finish designing
the new paragraph, let's move on to the
next part and learn how to combine it with the animation
of the first paragraph. In the meantime, let's
turn off this layer. I'll see you in the next part. But before that, you
might want to take a quick break for
about 10 minutes. Get up from your chair, stretch a bit, and make
yourself some coffee. It'll give you a chance
to recharge your brain before the next
lesson. See you there.
19. Nifty workflow tips: Welcome back. Before we dive into animating
the second paragraph, I want to share a useful tip on organizing the
software panel. Since we are now working with multiple animators
and parameters, it's essential to keep
things organized. First, we can move
this section here, then we can place the
preview screen here. Now let's grab our
composition panel from here and drag
it to this area. Since we don't need to
use the project panel, we can move it to the side. This way we can see both the
first text, second text. Let's set the preview to fit. Now we can open all the animators here and
see all the parameters. In a more convenient way, if we want to see the
keyframes on this layer, we can minimize this
area like this. We can position the
preview screen like that. We can also zoom in on the timeline to see the
key frames up close. Okay. Now, because
this paragraph doesn't need to make
the entry animation like the first paragraph, we can turn off
the first animator responsible for the
entrance animation. We can close it for now. Now let's drag the key frames of the second animator to the
beginning and change its data. The first data we'll change
is the rotation direction. We'll write -90
here instead of 90. Now the text rotates in
the opposite direction. In the next step, we need to change the data for the
position parameter. We'll change it to
-100 instead of 100. Now in order for the text to appear and not disappear
as it does now, we need to change the
animation mode to ramp up. The last thing we need to do
is just change the data in the tracking parameter to
minus ten instead of ten. That's how we created the reverse animation
for this paragraph. Now we can completely delete the first animator because
we don't need it at all. Okay, now let's make
the paragraph move to the side in order to create the transition for
the third paragraph. To do this, we can simply
copy the second animator from the first paragraph because it's the animator that is responsible for the animation we need, let's select the
second animator, press control C to copy it. We can close this layer now. Now let's select the text
here and press control V, making sure we're on
the second number two, so that when we paste
the key frames, the first key frame will
be positioned here. Now let's open this animator. This time we don't need
to change anything for this animator,
everything looks great. Now let's turn on
the first layer and time between
these two paragraphs. But before that, we can adjust the panels for a
better workflow. First, let's enlarge
this panel a bit. Now let's temporarily
turn off the first layer. Also turn off the grid and see where the animation of
the first paragraph ends. To see the key frames, we will select this
layer and press you. Let's also select this layer and press you to display
its key frames. Now let's place here
the time indicator. Turn on this layer
and try to find a nice point in time for this
layer to enter the scene. Okay, I think we should start the second
paragraph a bit later. Let's go to the second number three and move this layer here. Let's see it once again. Yes, I think it's excellent. Now let's move our
preview screen here, show the grid and create the
third and final paragraph. We can close and turn
off this layer for now. Now let's duplicate this layer
because its animation is very similar to the animation that should be in
the third paragraph. Let's select it
and press control D. And because we
added a new layer, we will need to see a bit
more of our timeline. For that, we can hide part
of the data displayed here, for example, the
stretch function. To hide it, we need
to right click here, go to columns, and
click on stretch. Now we don't see this part, and thanks to that, we can see a bit more of the time line. Let's also hide this section. Right click here, go to columns, and click on Parent and Link. Don't worry, we can bring back
all these functions later. Okay, so now we have more space here and we're ready to
continue with the project. Let's go back to
the selection tool and move the new
paragraph to the side. Let's move it while
holding the shift key so that the layer moves
in a straight axis. Now let's copy the title of the third text and paste
it in place of the title here we can delete the extra
space that was created here. Now let's copy the new text and paste it in place of the
text in the new paragraph. Let's adjust the text box
to get a nice paragraph. Excellent. Okay,
now let's select the color palette
through the project panel to see the colors. Let's enlarge this panel a bit. Now let's select the title
and change the color to blue. We can shrink this panel back. Let's go back to
the selection tool temporarily, turn
off this layer, turn off the grid, and focus on the animation
of the new paragraph. We can see that we
don't need to change the entry animation
for this paragraph. If we open the layer,
we can see that the animator responsible for
this animation is this one. And we don't have
a problem with it. We do have a problem with
the outro animation, which is controlled
by this animator. We can temporarily turn
off this animator because we don't want the paragraph
to exit the frame like that. We want this paragraph to exit from above and disappear
in the process. Similar to what happens in the entrance animation of the first paragraph
just in reverse. Therefore, we can
copy the animator responsible for this
animation from this layer, which is this animator. Select it and press control. Now let's turn back on the final paragraph and place the preview screen
so we can see it. Now let's paste it
into this layer. Let's open it, select
the text here, and press control V here. We see the animator here. We can delete this one. Now let's open this
animator to time its key frames and adjust some data to create
the desired animation. Since we know that
we need to create the reverse animation of
what is happening now, we can already change the
animators shape to ramp down. Now after the text enters, it disappears from the frame, but it disappears
and moves downward. To change its exit direction, we need to adjust the
position parameter question. What should we write
here to change the motion direction
of this paragraph? We'll write -50 here. Now after the text enters, it immediately moves
up and disappears. All right, now let's change the color of this layer to blue to differentiate
between the layers. Now let's press
you on this layer and on this layer to
see their key frames. Let's also display the key
frames of the first paragraph. Now let's time the animation between the second and
the third paragraphs. Let's move this layer to
the right place in time. We can turn on both
of these layers now, move it to second number six and move the
final paragraph here. Once we're done
with the animation and we're satisfied with it, we can return the panels
to the initial layout. Let's this panel down until we see this
area in bright gray. And then release the click. We can enlarge the preview
screen and set it back to fit. Now let's bring
the time indicator to the beginning
of the timeline, close all the layers, and check the animation
before moving on. Everything looks great. Now we're ready to move
on to the final part, where we will design our scene
in a more interesting way. See you in the next part.
20. Make it readable: Welcome back. First,
let's turn off the grid. Now let's select
only the text and change the color to a bright
color from the palette. Let's do this for all the
texts in all the paragraphs. Now let's press control to save the project before
we proceed Next, let's create a solid
that will serve as our background press control Y. Let's color it in black. Let's bring the solid
below all the layers. Now let's create a cool
gradient for the background. Go to Effects and presets. If you can't see it, you can find this panel
under window. Okay, let's write gradient here, and select gradient ramp. Let's drag this effect
onto the solid. Now go back to the project panel and drag the palette into the composition so we can see the colors while
working with the effect. Let's go back to
effect controls. Select the solid to
see the effect on it. Let's sample this color to
create a fine gradient. Then we can delete this layer. Now select the effect. Now we can grab this
small handle of the gradient and drag it
to a suitable position. I'll put it back where
it was, by the way. We can also move these
handles from here. Let's place the darker
part of the gradient here and the brighter part here. If we zoom in a bit, we can see that the
gradient is not smooth. We can see some
bands to fix this. We can write 30
and ramp scatter. That will soften it a bit. Okay, let's set the
preview back to fit. And let's add a cool effect called glow to our paragraphs. Let's write glow here and drag the effect onto this layer. Set the glow threshold to 60. Now copy the effect and paste it onto the
second paragraph. Let's paste it onto the
third paragraph as well. Now let's go back to the project panel and learn
how we can make the text paragraphs stay for
a few seconds on the frame before moving
on to the next paragraph. Because in the end
you'll need to create a text animation in a way that people can read
what's written. That's why the
text needs to stay in the scene for a
few seconds before it transitions to the next text disappears. Let's
see how to do that. First of all, let's duplicate
this composition through the project panel
so that we can make changes to it without affecting
the current composition. Let's select the composition
and press control D. Now press Enter and change the name to
text. Animation. Four, underscore long, let's
enter the composition. As you can see, the text is changing very quickly and
we can't read anything. First, to extend the duration of this composition so that we have enough time
on the timeline, let's press control K Now
let's set it to 40 seconds. And press Enter. Now let's
zoom out on the timeline and extend all the
layers we have here until the end of the
composition like this. Now let's lock the background so that it doesn't
interfere with us. Let's turn off these
two layers so that we can focus on the
first paragraph. Select it, and
let's learn how to make it stay a bit
longer in the scene. Okay, so first let's select it and press you to
see its key frames. The next thing we need to do is decide from which
point in time we want the second animator responsible for the outro
animation to start. Let's go to the second
number eight and let's move the key frames of
the second animator here. Now, during this whole time, there will be no changes
in the animation. That means the text
will remain in place. Let's see how it looks there. The text appears stands
for a few seconds and only at second number eight does the outro animation begin. Basically, we created a
paragraph of exactly 6 seconds. Now let's do the same for
the second paragraph. We'll select it, press you if the intro animation for this paragraph ends at
second number five. Let's move to second number 11 to create the
six second pause. Now let's move the key frames of the second animator here. Let's do the same for
the last paragraph. We'll select it, press you now. Move to the second number 14. Now let's move the key frames of the second animator here. All right, now turn it on, close all the layers
and see what we've got. As you can see, there
are parts where we see all the paragraphs
together, right? Because we made them
each stop for 6 seconds. That's why we need to time
them again between each other according to
their new animation. Let's select all these layers. Press you enlarge this
panel and time them. Let's select the second and
the third text layers and try to find a nice point in time for them to
enter the scene. We can move the two top
layers to this point in time, second number nine
because it's exactly in the middle of the outro animation
of the first paragraph. Looks great. Now let's select the third paragraph and move it to second number 18. Let's see how it
all looks together. The first paragraph enters. The scene stands for 6 seconds. Now it disappears. And immediately after that, the second paragraph
enters the scene. It also stands for 6 seconds. Then it switches to
the third paragraph. Okay, And save the project. And let's close all the layers. Go back to the short composition
and render it first. Let's close the effects tab
and exit this pre comp. And now we are ready
to render this scene. We need to make sure
that the work area of this composition ends
where we want it to end. So that we don't render
just a black screen. If the animation in this
scene already ends here, we don't need all this area because we don't see
anything here anymore. Let's see where the animation
of this layer ends. It ends at this key frame. We'll stand here and press to shorten the work area
to this point in time. Now let's press control to
go to the render panel. We'll choose to render
it in high quality, Her 0.2 64 format, which is an MP four file. And we'll choose to render
it to our render folder. Let's make sure
the name is good, then click on Save. And after that, click on Render. And wait a few moments. All right, the
render is finished. Let's see what we've got. Looks nice. Now you can upload this video
on social media, display it on your
portfolio website, and of course, use this
animation for your next project. If you're enjoying the course, I would greatly
appreciate it if you could rate this course
based on how you feel and leave feedback so that I know if you learn
something new or not. Okay, now let's go back to the project and organize
it before we close it. All right, so the first
thing we need to do is to create a new folder
in the project panel. We will call it Assets and drag the color
palette into it, as well as the solids folder. Then create another
folder called pre comps and drag the
long pre comp into it. Finally, let's label the
main composition in blue. Now let's press control to save the project
before we close it. With that, we have
finished the lesson. I hope you enjoy it, and I can't wait to see
you in the next one. But before that,
you might want to take a quick break
for about 10 minutes. Get up from your
chair, stretch a bit, and make yourself some coffee. It'll give you a chance
to recharge your brain before the next
lesson. See you there.
21. Section 5: Advanced Kynetic Typography Animation: Hi there. In this lesson
we take a break from text animators and learn some new tricks for making
awesome text animations. Plus, we'll be downloading
a sweet plug in for after effects that'll make it easier to work with
multiple layers. This lesson is divided
into three parts, which we will learn
in the first part, we'll talk about the purge
feature which helps after effects run smoother and avoid any potential
issues later on. Then we'll create the text and
add it to the composition. Moving on to part two, we'll get into animating
that text and even add some cool expressions to make
it even more eye catching. Then we'll install
that free plug in for after effects to take
things to the next level. Finally, we'll make a
loop for the animation, refine the look, and
get it all ready to share with a high
quality MP for file. And of course, we'll tidy up the project
before we're done. It's gonna be awesome. Can't wait to get started just.
22. Let's design the scene: Let's lunch after effects. Together, we can close this window so that we all see the same
panel arrangements. Let's click on Default. Now, go ahead and create
our first composition. Let's name it Text
Animation five. We will work in full HD format. Let's work with 24
frames per second. The duration of the composition
will be 40 seconds. Now, change the
background to black. Click Okay, here and there. Now let's import our color
palette into the project. Double click on the gray
area in the project panel, select the color palette,
and click on Import. Now before we move on, I want to teach you
about an action called purge. What is purge? When you work on a
project, in after effects, it stores a bunch of data and
info in its memory cache. Sometimes that cache can get all clogged up with old
or unnecessary stuff, which can slow down the program and even cause
errors or crashes. When that happens, you can use the Purge function to clear out the cache and free
up some memory. It's super helpful
when you're having performance issues or
running into errors, just clear out that
cache and you'll see a big improvement in
how the program runs. So let's purge the
project together. Now click on Edit, go to Purge, and click on
All Memory and Disk cache. Great, so now we can see
how much chunk we have. It may be a different
number for you anyway. Let's hit okay, and
wait a few seconds Al. Right now we can save the
project and give it a name. Let's locate the folder we
created for the lesson. Enter the AE folder and name the file which we are
currently working on. You can select this
project to get this name and change
the extension to five. Finally, hit Save. Now let's start to
design the scene. First, let's write the text. For this, we'll select the text tool and
type the word Learn. Now select all the text and
change the Fanta Montserrat. Set the style to black and
adjust the size to 150. Now click on the option
for capital letters. Now let's change the color
of the text to black. Next, click on the stroke color option and
set it to white. Here we can adjust
the line thickness. Let's set it to one. Now don't forget to go to paragraph tab and align the text
to the center. Also, let's go back to character and ensure the stroke
is set to overfill. Okay, now let's switch back
to the selection tool. Press the apostrophe key
to display the grid. Now let's center the anchor
point of this layer, press control at home
to achieve that. Now to center the layer in the composition without
using the aligned tool, let's use a new shortcut
press control home. Let's duplicate this layer. Press control D, then move
it downwards and change the word to motion to exit
the text editing mode. Press control Enter. Now let's duplicate
this layer again. Select the selection tool, move it downwards, and
change the word to design. Now to maintain the same
word order as in the scene, let's move the motion layer here and the design layer here. Now let's switch back to the
selection tool and bring all the layers up so that the middle word is in the
center of the composition. Let's use the Align
Tool to create equal spacing between
all the layers. Make sure we have
selection chosen here. Let's click here. Finally, I'll use
the down arrow on the keyboard to move all
the layers down a bit. Great, now we are ready to
move on to the next part and start to animate the
scene. See you there.
23. Installing a handy free script: Welcome back. The first thing we need to do is to move these
layers left and right. Question, which property
should we animate to do that? To achieve this, we will
use the position property, press P to display
it on all layers. Now in second number zero, let's decide that the
layers will stay here. Let's move them a bit
more to the left. Using the left arrow
on the keyboard, we will create a key frame. Now let's move to second
number two and move the layers to the other side while holding down
the shift key. Now let's move to second number three and return the layers
to their initial position. For this, we can duplicate
the first key frames. But if we select all of them, press control C to copy them, and then press control
V to paste them. Note that we pasted all the layers instead
of just the key frames. This happens when we select key frames from
different layers. To prevent this from happening, we need to duplicate
each key frame for each layer individually. Let's select this
keyframe, Press control C, and now press control V. Let's do the same for
the next two layers. Let's see how it looks. Okay, moving on, let's select all the key frames
and convert them to AsE's using the nine key. Now the motion will be smoother. Now we need this movement to continue until the end
of the composition. To do this, we can use the
expression that we used in the second lesson when we created the loop
for the pre comp. Because the first key frames and the last key frames on
these layers are the same, we can do the same here. For this, we will hover over the stopwatch icon
of this parameter. Hold down the alt key, and click on the stopwatch once. Now let's click on
the small arrow, go to Property, and
select this expression. Click here to finish
the operation. And let's do the same
for the next two layers. But instead of repeating
all these steps, we can simply right click on this parameter and choose
copy expression only. Now let's select both
layers and press control V to paste the copied
expression. There you have it. All the layers continue to
repeat the same movement even after the last
keyframe hit the Spacebar. To see that all works
fine, looks nice. Now let's create
a nice offset in the animation for this place, the time indicator
at frame number six. Now let's move closer in
the time line and shift the key frames of these two
layers to frame number six. Now let's reach frame number 12. Select the key frames of this
layer and move them here. That's how we've created a
cool offset for the animation. That way we get a much more interesting
motion in the scene. Looks great. Now let's select all the layers and
nest them into one pre comp. Let's use the
shortcut this time. Press control shift C. Now let's change the name
to text comp one, Make sure both are
selected and press. Okay, great. So now if we enter
this pre comp, we will see all three of our
text layers in the future. Once we create the effect, we can go in here and change
the words if we want. All right, now let's go back to the main composition and
start creating the effect. First, let's duplicate
this pre comp using control D. Now let's
select the bottom layer, press S and create an
expression for this layer. To do this, we'll hover the mouse over the stopwatch
of this parameter. Hold down the alt key and
click the stopwatch once. Now, locate the main folder
for the course you created. Enter the Assets folder and open the file named expression
for less than five. Now let's select and copy
everything written here. Next, let's go back
to our project. Click here and paste
the copied expression. Click here to finish the action. Note that now this
layer has scaled. Let's turn off the
grid. All right, so with the help of
this expression, we made it so that every
time we copy this layer, it'll automatically go behind the last one and get 20% bigger. Pretty cool. No
extra work needed. Let's select this pre comp and press control D. Now we have created a new pre comp that is 20% larger than the
previous pre comp. This layer is positioned
behind the layer before it. Let's duplicate this pre comp until we reach a
total of 20 layers. Let's enlarge this panel to see all the layers and continue duplicating the second pre comp. Now let's set the
preview to fit. Continue working on the scene. Now let's select
the first layer, go to effects and presets, and search for an
effect called invert. Drag this effect onto
the first precomp. Now let's press to bring
up the scale parameter of this layer and enlarge it a bit to match the size of
the precomps behind it. I think 120 should be fine. Let's close the
layer and move on. Now if you come closer to
see the precomps up close, you'll notice that they are
not of such good quality, especially the ones
that are behind. This is because they are scaled much larger than the
ones before them. To improve the quality
of the precomps, we can activate the collapse
function located here. If you don't see this
icon, you can click here. Let's select all the layers and apply the collapse
function to each of them. There it is, the quality
has significantly improved. Now let's set the
preview screen to fit and see how the
entire scene looks. Great. Now we need to create a cool wavy look
movement to this animation. To achieve that,
we need to create an offset for all our pre
comps in the composition. We can do this manually, of course, but it would
take a lot of time. Additionally, if we realize
that the offset is not good, it would be very
difficult to change it. That's why we need to
use the juice plug in, which allows us to arrange the
layers quickly and easily. First, I'll demonstrate
how it works, and then we will download and install the
plug in together. All right, I'll open the
plug in and drag it here. I'll shrink this panel a bit. Now all I need to do is select all the layers
I want to move, choose the direction
of the offset, and set the distance
between each layer. All I have to do now is click
on Stagger And that's it. I got an offset from the
first layer to the last. I press control Z and
show you what would happen if I choose to arrange
the layers in this way. They would be sorted
from last to first. All right, I'll bring
everything back to normal. Let's install the
plug in together. I'll show you how to do it
both on Mac and Windows, although it's pretty much
the same process for both. But before that, press
control to save the project, in case you didn't match the software preferences as
we did in the first lesson, please go to Preferences, Scripts and Expressions, and
make sure to check this box. Otherwise the plug in
might not work properly. All right, now it's best to exit the project before
installing the plug in. You will not see the script after installation
in after effects. While after effects is open after the
script installation, you will have to reopen
the project anyway. I suggest closing the project now and after the installation, we will open it back. But before closing the project, don't forget to save it. All right, first I
show it for Mac users. First, go to the Ags website. Find the link in the
PDF file located in the main folder of the course
you downloaded from me. Now you need to register
or log into the website. Next, go to Free Plugins and
click on Download from Mac. Enter your email here,
check the box and download. Now you can check your
mailbox or just click here. Then choose where you want to save the file and click Save. Now open the folder and
extract the zip file. After that, you can
delete the zip file. Great. Now open the installer, Click Continue,
enter your password if needed, and click Installed. After the installation, you
can delete the installer. Great, Now we can minimize all the open folders
and lunch after effects. Go to Window and open
the age pack manager. Now click here on the
side to exit the guides. The most important
thing is to log into your account From here, cool. You can go back to
After Effects and close this panel and open
the Ages shifter. Now I want to show the installation process
for Windows users. It's pretty much the same, so I won't talk and just show the process users you can
close after effects for now. Soon we will open our
project together. In the meantime, Windows users, you can follow along with me
and download the plug in. All right, after we have
installed the plug in, let's navigate to the AE
folder and open our project. Now let's open the plug in. So go to Window and
click on AEG shifter. You can attach this panel
to the preview panel. Just drag it from this area and attach it to the
blue section here. You can scale it down a bit. Now let's select all the layers. Choose this arrangement, set the offset to one frame
and click on Stagger. But before moving
on, let's place this panel here and
close it for now. Because we have created
an offset for the layers, the animation now
looks much more interesting. It looks excellent. Now let's move on to the final part and create
a loop for this animation. So see you there.
24. Improve the animation and render the final version: To create a perfect loop, we need to find an identical
frame along the animation. One at the beginning
and one at the end. Let's say that the
beginning frame of the animation will be
at second number two. Now we can capture this frame so we can compare
it with the second frame. We will choose to
end the animation. We can also select all the
layers and at a marker, we can know that this will be the point where the
animation begins. Now let's move a few
seconds forward and try to find the point in
time where the text returns to the same
point we captured. To see better what we are doing, we can enlarge the preview panel and set the preview to fit. Okay, let's check
if we can close the loop yet. Nope, not yet. Let's give it another
shot. Still not good. We're getting there, but
not quite there yet. Let's try to check it
in second number six. Yes, that is the
right point in time. Great. Now let's
enlarge this panel, select all the layers again, and create a marker at
this point as well. Now let's adjust the work
area to the markers we set to shorten the work
area from its end press. Now let's move toward the first markers while
holding down the shift key. Now let's shorten the work area from its beginning
using the B key. Since we don't need this
whole section anymore, let's press control K to access the composition
settings and shorten its length from 40
seconds to 10 seconds. Before moving any further, it's a good time to press
control and save the project. Ok. Now let's enlarge the preview screen and hit the Spacebar to
see the animation. You can render this
animation as it is now, or you can change the
animation a bit with me. If this is the
case, you can enter the pre comp of the text
together with me and change the motion of this text by
changing some parameters in the keyframes to display all the key frames
of all the layers. Let's make sure we don't select any layer
and press the Ukey. Now let's select all
the key frames here. Hover over one of
them. Hold the out key and click on it twice. This way we'll reach the
keyframe velocity panel. We haven't talked
about it in a while. Anyway, here we can change the animation behavior of the texts by entering
different values. Let's set it to 85 x 85 press, okay, and see how it looks. If we go to the graph editor, we can see that the curve of these key frames
looks like this now. Meaning the text will
start moving slowly, gain high acceleration, and then slow down again
towards the end. Okay, let's exit the graph
editor and return to the main composition to see how it affects the
effect we created. Let the software render
the scene a bit. I like it this way. I'll keep
this animation and move on. Now if we zoom out a bit, we can see a few more layers
behind which we don't see in the scene because they are large and extend beyond the
boundaries of the scene. Let's see how we can
reduce the size of this entire scene without
touching the layers. For this right click here, go to New and select
adjustment layer. What is the adjustment layer? The adjustment layer is a special layer in after
effects that allows you to apply effects and adjustments to multiple layers
simultaneously. Instead of applying
the same effect to each individual layer, you can add an adjustment layer and apply an effect to it. The effect will
then be applied to all layers below it
in the layer stack. The benefit of using an adjustment layer is
that it allows you to make global changes to your composition
quickly and easily. We created an empty, an invisible layer that
has nothing on it. We will use this layer to create a filter that will
affect the scene. To do this, let's
go to effects and presets and search for an
effect called transform. Let's drag the effect onto the adjustment layer and change the name of this
layer to transform, so that we know which
effect is applied to it. Okay, now let's set
the preview screen to fit and change some
parameters in this effect. As you can see, there
is a parameter here called scale because
all these layers are below the adjustment layer. They will all be affected by
the changes we make to it. Okay, let's set it to 90 and
see how the scene looks. I think we can reduce
it a bit more. Let's try 80. Maybe
60, perhaps 50. No, 50 is too much. Pay attention here.
I don't like it, so I'll change it back to 60. Let's see how that looks. Let's allow after effects to render the scene
for a few seconds. All right, I think
it looks great. Now let's color the text in the colors from
our color palette. Go to the project
panel and select the color palette from
here to see the colors. Now let's go back to
the text composition. Then open the character tab. And now select all the layers. And change the text color to the dark color
from the palette. For some reason, it's not capturing the correct
color for me. I'll deal with it in a moment. In the meantime, let's
click here to change the color of the line to the bright color
from the palette. Okay, once again, for some reason I can't
capture the colors. I'll just drag the palette here and pick the
colors from there. That's better. Now, I'll delete the palette and go back
to the main composition. As you know, we don't actually have a
background in the scene. The black color we see
here in the background is the default background
color of the previous screen, and it's not a real background. To create a real background, we need to create a new solid. Let's select this panel
and press control. Now let's change the color. I see it's still causing me, I'll just pick the
color from here. Let me go in here to check
if it's the right color. Now let's press okay, let's move this layer below
all the other layers. Now pay attention that
the solid is very small. This happens because
the solid is also influenced by the transform effect on the adjustment layer. It's not a problem at all. Let's select the solid press and enlarge this
layer until it fits the Scene 180 is great. We can activate the
collapse function for the solid as well. Okay, let's close the layer. Go to the project panel, press control S to save the project and move on
to render the animation. I want to remind you that
after effects will render only what is within the
boundaries of the work area. Because we have shortened the work area perfectly
to create a loop, we have no problem with it. But if you still don't want to see all that unnecessary area, you can simply write, Click on the work area and choose
Trim Comp to work area. Now let's press control. And to access the render panel, we will choose to
render it in the high quality H 0.264 format, which is a high quality MP four. We will choose to render
it to our render folder. Let's make sure
the name is good. Click on Save and
then click on Render. Let's wait a few moments. Okay, now let's see what
we got. It looks great. As always, you can
upload this video to your social media
channels or display it on your portfolio
website and of course, use this animation for
your next projects. If you're enjoying the course, I would greatly appreciate it if you could rate this
course based on your experience and leave feedback so I know if you learn something
interesting or not. Okay, now let's get back to
the project and organize it. Before we close it, let's create a folder
called Pre comps. Make sure we don't
select anything, and create another
folder named Assets. Drag the color palette
and the solids folder into it and into the
precomps folder. Let's drag the
precomp we created, label the main composition in blue and press control
S to save the project. Before we close it, great,
I hope you enjoyed it. We'll meet again in
the next lesson. But before that,
you might want to take a quick break
for about 10 minutes. Get up from your
chair, stretch a bit, and make yourself some coffee. It'll give you a chance
to recharge your brain before the next
lesson. See you there.
25. Section 6: Isometric Camera Text Animation: Welcome back. In this lesson, we're going to dive into making some cool three D
text animations To make things even easier, We'll be installing a free
script for after effects. That's super handy for
working with anchor points. This lesson is divided
into three parts. First things first,
we will design and animate the first
object in the scene. Then we'll convert
everything into three D and learn how to navigate in
the three dimensional space. Next, we'll install
a free script to help us arrange
everything perfectly. Once we've got that
under control, we'll complete designing
the scene using the script. After that, we'll
learn how to create an isometric camera and animate the scene
using one layer only. Finally, we'll add
some more designs to the scene and improve the
overall look and the animation. Then we'll export
the whole thing as a fancy NP four file ready to share on social media
and your portfolio. And then we'll tidy
up the project. Before we're done, it's
going to be awesome. So let's get started.
26. Setting up the scene: Let's open the after
effects software. We can close this window and so that we all see the same
panel arrangements. Let's click on Default. Now let's create our
first composition. We will name it
text animation six. Now let's go to Three D Renderer and make sure
we select three D Classic. Okay, now let's go back to basics and set the
size to full HD. The frame rate to 24, the duration to 10 seconds, and the background to black. Now let's import the color
palette into the project. Double click on the gray
area in the project panel. Find the folder you created for the lesson and enter
the Assets folder. Select the color palette
and click on Import. Okay, now we can save the
project and give it a name. Let's find the folder we
created for the lesson. Enter the folder. Select this project
to copy the name, change it to six,
and click on Save. Let's set the preview screen to fit and start to
create the scene. First, let's create the text. Select the text tool
and type step by step. Now double click on the
text to select it all. Now go to Paragraph and align
the text to the center. Make sure the writing direction
is from left to right. Now go to Character
and change the font to one of the start fonts
called Bells Story. Now change the style
to display bold. Let's change the
font size to 160. Now let's go to Align. And align the text to the
center of the composition. Click here and here. Now in order to center the
anchor point of the layer, press control Alt Home. Now to create the first
part of the stairs, we need to nest this text
into a pre comp so we can adjust its size and
design it as we want. Select the layer and
press control shift C, the name is already good. Just click on. Okay,
let's enter the pre comp. Now let's resize
this composition to the size of the text. For this, we need to access
the composition settings. Press control K. Now let's change the width until
we get the size we want. I think 1,200 is good enough. Now let's adjust the
height to see the changes. Don't forget to select Preview. I think 200 will be good. Once we're done with
that, let's click Okay. Now we need to
create a background. Let's select the color palette so that we can see the colors. Let's click here and press
control to create the solid. Let's color the solid
and pink press. Okay, and bring this layer down. Select the text and change its color to a bright
color from the palette. Now let's make the text
constantly move upwards. We can do this with an
effect called motion tile. Let's go to effects and presets. If you don't see this panel, you can find it in window. Okay, let's tight motion here. Then we can drag this
effect onto our text. Now we can see the effect in effect controls for those
who can't see this panel. You can find it under window. Okay, to get the text moving, we got to animate
this parameter. First things first, let's make sure we're starting
at the beginning of the composition and get that first keyframe set up with the text in its original spot. Now to see the key frame we
created, just hit the UK. Then move to the end
of the composition and slide that parameter in the direction
we wanted to go. 900 looks good. What's important here is to
find a point where the text is positioned in the same spot
as in the first keyframe. This way we'll create a perfect loop To be
sure we can press the apostrophe key
to bring up the grid and see how the text is
positioned relative to it. For example, I see that this part of the letter
is located here. Now let's go to the
last key frame and confirm that the same part is
exactly in the same place. Excellent, now let's
see how it looks. Our main focus needs to be on the part when the animation
ends and starts again. This part needs to
be clean without cuts or jumps in some frames. Perfect the animation starts
again without problems, which means that we
created a perfect loop. With that, we have finished creating the first
part of the stairs. We will have
eventually. Now let's create the rest
parts of the stairs. We can close the layer and return to the main composition. Here we can see the pre comp which is the first
part of the stairs. Before moving to the next part, let's go back to
the project panel, close the effects, and
proceed to the next part, where we start building the rest of the
parts of the stairs.
27. Work in 3D space: All right, so first let's
tag this layer in red. It will help us in the near
future to navigate and organize the other parts of the stairs we are
going to create soon. All right, now we need
to duplicate this layer. So let's press control
D. Now we need to place it exactly above the first layer to do this most accurately. It's not enough to just
hold the shift key because we need them to snuggle
up really close together. For this, we can
activate snapping. If you don't see it, make sure you're working with
the selection tool. Now let's click here and also
enable these two functions. As soon as we drag
this layer away, it will easily snap to
the layer below it. We need to grab the layer
from its lower part. That way we help after effects understand which part we want to bring closer and connect. Okay, now let's duplicate this pre comp again and drag
the duplicate downwards. We'll drag it until both layers are connected to each
other like this. Now let's select both of
our duplicates and tag them with a different color than the middle
part of the stairs. Let's just bring
this layer down here so that we have the same
order as in the scene. Meaning the middle
part is in the center, the upper part is above, and the lower part is down here. Okay, now let's duplicate
the upper part and move it upwards until it precisely aligns with
the part below it. Now let's duplicate
the lower part and bring it down until it aligns
with the part above it. Now in order to turn all
these parts into the stairs, we need to convert these
layers into three D layers. We can do this by clicking
on the icon located here. If you don't see this
icon, you can click here. Let's convert all the
layers into three D layers. Now let's change the view to see the scene from a slightly
different angle. An angle that is
more convenient for us to view the scene
in the three D space. To do this, let's change
the view from here. For those who don't
see this area, try dragging the panel
here until you see it. Okay, let's change our
view to custom view one. Now we can see the scene from
a slightly different angle. Now let's zoom in a bit
and select this layer. And press the R key to display
the rotation parameter. As you can see, after converting the layer
into a three D layer, we have additional
rotation axis. Rotation in the Z axis, which we had before when
the layer was two D, we have rotation in the
Y axis and the X axis. To create the stairs, we will change the
rotation of this axis. For convenience, let's select
this part of the stairs, press and lower
the opacity to 50. This way we have marked the
central part of the stairs. It's easier this way to
understand what we are doing. Now let's close the layer and continue
creating the stairs. But as you can see, when
I rotate this part, it doesn't actually create
the shape of the stairs. This happens because this layer is rotating from its center. This means we need to move the anchor point of this
layer to its upper part. We can do this manually
using the Anchor Point tool, or we can use a free and
super handy free script called Reposition Anchor Point. First I will show
you how it works and then we will download
and install it together. Here I can choose which corner
to place the anchor point. This represents this corner, that represents that
corner, and so on. In my case, I need this corner. Therefore I make sure I
select the correct layer. Then I select the position where I want to move the anchor point. And then I press reposition
to perform the action. There you go, the anchor point, jump to the chosen location. Now when I rotate this part, it will rotate correctly. Okay, so now let's install
the script together. I'll show you how to do it
both on Mac and Windows. I will close it for now. Let's press control as
to save the project. And let's close it. You will not see the script after
installation and after effects. While after effects is open, after the script installation, you will have to reopen
the project anyway. So I suggest closing
the project now and after the installation,
we will open it back. But before closing the project, don't forget to save it. All right, let's
install the script. First, go to AE Scripts website. Find the link in the
PDF file located in the main folder of the course
you downloaded from me. Or just type scripts on Google
and enter this website. Now you need to
register to the site. I already have a
user, so I'll log in, then search the script, click on it, and enter your price. You can write zero or leave a tip to the creators
of the script. After that, click
on Add to cart, then go to the shopping
basket up here. In the shopping basket,
You can see the product. Click on Proceed to Checkpoint. You can press Continue until
you reach the third part, where you click on Place Order. Now go to my Download and license and download the script. Choose a convenient folder for you and extract the
winner or zip file. After downloading
after the extraction, you can delete the
winner or the zip file. Now go into the folder
until you see the JX file. You need to copy the JX file and paste it into the
after effects folder. First of all, you
need to know where your software is installed
for Windows users. You can find it in the
C Drive program files. Adobe After Effects
for Mac users. Open Finder, go to Applications,
Adobe After Effects. In my case, I installed all my Adobe programs
on my D driver. That's why I'm not
going to the C driver. All right, and now enter
the support files, Then scroll down a bit
and enter scripts. Go to scripts I panels
and paste the JSX file Here, we can close that. Now after installing the script, let's go back to the
folder we created for the course and to the AE
folder and open our project. Now let's go to Window, scroll down and select
Reposition Anchor Point. We can drag the script panel
into the workflow area. Now let's select this
part of the stairs and select the position where you want the anchor
point to move. Then click on Reposition
to perform the action. Now let's select this layer and choose to position the
anchor point in this corner. Let's check if it worked. Open the rotation parameter for this layer and rotate it on the x axis -90
degrees it worked, but as you can see, the layer above it doesn't move with it. It would have been very helpful
if they moved together. To do this, we can
link this layer to this layer using the
parent and link feature. Now when we rotate this layer, the layer above it will
move together with it. Let's do the same thing here. Link this layer to this layer. Now when we rotate this part, the part below it will
move together with it. Okay, let's rotate
this part -90 degrees. Let's also rotate this
part -90 degrees. Now, in order for this
part to rotate correctly, let's position its anchor
point in the correct corner. Because currently,
if we rotate it, it will rotate from
its center question. Which corner do we need to move the anchor point of
this specific layer to? We will position
the anchor point of this layer in
the bottom corner. Now when we rotate this
layer on the X axis, it will rotate as we need it to. This time we'll
write 90 degrees. Now let's select this layer. Press are to open the
rotation perimeter. And it is also rotating
from its center, which is not what we want. Which means we need to move its anchor point
to the top corner. Let's do it now. Change the rotation on
the x axis to 90 degrees. Now let's close all the panels. Next, we need to ensure that all parts of the stairs
rotate together. When we rotate the middle part, this will make it easier for us to move the
stairs later on. To achieve this, we need to link all parts of the stairs
to the middle part. However, since this part is
already linked to this one, we need to link just this part. Now we have created
a chain link. Meaning this part
is linked to that one and that part is
linked to the main part. This means that if I now
rotate the main part, all the parts above it will
rotate together with it. Now let's do the same for the
bottom part of the stairs. We can see that this layer is already linked to this layer. Therefore we will only link
this layer to the main part. Now if we rotate this part, all the parts of the
stairs will move with it. Great. Now let's press control
S to save the project, set the preview screen to fit, and continue creating
the rest parts of the stairs from
above and below. For this, let's select these two parts and
duplicate them using control D. For the new duplicates to stand side by side
here in the layer panel, we will drag them
upwards like this. Excellent, now we need to move these two
parts to this area. It's important to remember that because this part is
linked to this part, we can only move this part and the part above it
will move with it. Let's move this part along
its y axis like this. Now, to position these
two components precisely, we can use the left view. This is how our scene
looks from the side. Here we see all our
layers from the side, and here are the new layers. Let's move it forward a bit and try to place it on the
top of the stairs. You can get a bit closer. I press here to
unselect the layer, We can see that it's not
aligned with the stairs. Let's move it upward a bit more. Let's get a bit closer and align this part properly. That's better. Now let's stay in this view and duplicate these
two lower layers. Let's select them,
Press Control D, and bring them down
in the layer panel. Now we can see that this layer
is linked to this layer. We will only move this layer and the second layer will move with it. Move these parts here. Now let's bring them down, let's get a bit closer and place them next to the
rest of the stairs. That's good enough. Now let's go back to custom view
and see how it looks. Let's rotate this layer to
see that all the parts are linked properly. Well done. Now let's go back to the left view and add
more stairs to the scene. For this, let's select
these two layers, Press control D, and move
them up in the layer panel. Now let's move on this layer, and the second layer
will move with it. Let's move these parts here, let's get a bit closer, and place them next to
the rest of the stairs. That's good enough. Let's do this one more time
for the bottom part, let's select these two layers, Press control D and bring
them down in the layer panel. Now let's get a bit closer
and move on this layer. And the second layer
will move with it. Move these parts here,
get a bit closer, and place them next
to the rest of the stairs. Looks good. Now let's set the
preview back to fit. Press control S to save
the project and go back to custom view one to see that everything
looks correct. Okay, everything looks great. And now we can return
to active camera, which is the original
angle of our scene. And before moving
to the next part, let's select this layer, press T and set the opacity to 100% Now let's learn how to
create the isometric camera. Let's see how to do it.
See you in the next part. But before that,
you might want to take a quick break
for about 10 minutes. Get up from your chair, stretch a bit, and make
yourself some coffee. It'll give you a chance to recharge your brain
before the next lesson. See you there.
28. Create an isometric camera and animate the scene with one layer: To create an isometric camera, first we need to add a
new camera to the scene. To do this, right click here. Go to New and select
Camera In the camera type. Choose two node
camera and select 50 millimeters. Then hit okay. In the next step, we will
create a new null object. Right click one more time, go to New and choose
the null object. Now convert it into
a three Dlayer so that it can interact
with the camera. Then link the
camera to the null. Now let's open the
camera and access the camera options from
here in the zoom section. Enter 10,000 Now
close camera options and open the
transform properties. Now change the position to
-10,000 Let's close the layer. Now let's select the null and press R to open the
rotation parameter. Change the orientation
to 45 here, 35.30 Currently, the stairs
are not visible as intended. They appear from behind to
see them from the front. Let's change the value to
-45 And there you have it. Let's close the null, and we can see our scene from a cool isometric camera angle. Next, let's create an illusion
of shadow for the stairs. We can achieve this using
effect called levels. Drag the effect onto
the main layer, Change the output white
parameter to 180. Now let's copy the effect
from this layer and paste it onto all the
upright parts of the stairs. Select the effect
and press control C. Then select the vertical
part of the stairs, and paste the effect
on them using control V. Let's paste it on the
rest of the vertical parts. Excellent, Now press control
S to save the project. Let's move on to the next
step to animate the scene. To animate this scene, we can set key frames
for the null object. Select it, and press
R. By rotating it, we can observe changes
in the camera angle. This is because the camera
is linked to this null. In other words, every
time we rotate the null, we are essentially
rotating the camera, creating new angles
within the scene. In our case, we will create key frames for both
the X and Y axis. Let's decide that at
second number two, the current camera angle
will be as it is right now. Let's create key frames
for both the X and Y axis. Now let's move to
the beginning of the time line and create an interesting angle
for the scene. -45 on the y axis looks good. Next let's set the x axis to 35. Perfect, That looks very nice. Moving on to the force second, we want to return
the camera angle to its initial position. To achieve that, let's copy the first two key frames using control C and paste them at the current time indicator
place using control V. Lastly, let's shorten
the work area to the position of
the time indicator. What is the shortcut to shorten the workflow area from
the end of the timeline, the position of the
time indicator. To do this, let's
press the N key. All right, now let's
see how everything looks. It looks good. For now, we will revisit the camera movement later to create a more
interesting motion. For now, let's continue
designing the scene. For example, let's see
what needs to be done. If we want to add additional
text layers to this area, we can close the null layer. Now let's grab the text
tool and write some text. Now let's select the text and change the font to era Bolt. Next we'll go to the
paragraph settings and align the text
in the center. Now let's switch back to the selection tool and center the anchor
point of this layer. Use the shortcut control
Alt home to do this. Then let's go back to
the character settings. If you want, you can click here to make all the
letters uppercase. However, I prefer
not to do that. Okay, now let's position
this text here on the side. First, we need to
convert this layer to a three D layer so that the camera can refer
to it in the scene. Then press to open up
the position parameter. And move this layer
within the scene. Bring it down here and move
it closer to this area. You can also move it from
the handles on the layer. Now press to bring up the
rotation parameter and rotate this layer around
the y axis by 90 degrees. Let's move it a bit here and see how it looks with the
camera animation. To ensure that we have placed the text right next
to the stairs, we can view the scene
from the front view. Let's select the text, Zoom in a bit and move it right near the
line of the stairs. That looks good
enough. Now let's go back to the active camera, which is the camera we have in the scene and continue
designing the scene. We can move this text layer upwards so we can add
more text to the scene. Moving the layers in
the three D space can help you memorize the
different axis directions. Now let's duplicate this layer, bring it down, and place
it next to this corner. Let's change the word to motion. Press control Enter to exit
the text editing mode. And to be able to
move the layer, press V to switch back
to the selection tool, let's position the layer
next to this corner. Let's move this layer
a bit to the left. Next, let's duplicate
this layer and bring it down and change
the word to design. Now go back to the
selection tool and place the layer
next to this corner. Now let's select
all these layers, press S to open up
the scale parameter. Now scale them up a bit. Let's say 115% That
should be enough. Now let's move these layers slightly to the side like this. Set the preview screen to fit, and see how it looks with
the camera movement. As you can see, we are unable
to see a part of this word. Let's close all the
layers and adjust the camera movement a bit so that we can see the entire word. To do this, we'll
select the null and add a position animation to
its existing rotation. Animation press to see
the position parameter. At this point in time, I want the camera to
be as it is right now. Therefore, I will create a key frame with
the current value. Now let's move to the
second number two, which is when the
camera rotates. And let's change the value of the position parameter until
we reach a nice angle. Make sure you don't
reach the end of the stairs when you
change the value. Okay, that looks good. Now let's move to
the for a second, which is the end
of our animation. And bring the camera's
position to its initial state. To do this, let's copy the first key frame
and paste it here. Now let's improve
the animation of the camera movements by converting all the
key frames to as. To see all the key
frames on this layer, press you once and
then once again. This way we can see
all the key frames. Now to convert all the
key frames to Z's, select all the key
frames and press nine. Let's see how it looks now. Okay, that looks a bit better. Now let's improve it even more. Select only the key frames
for the position parameter. Now hold down the Alt key and click on one of
the key frames twice. Change the key frame
velocity to 90 by 90. Hit Enter, and let's
see it one more time. It's getting more interesting. All right, now let's select the key frames for
the rotation axis X. Hold down the Alt key
and click on one of the key frames
twice here as well. Let's change the key frame
velocity to 90 by 90. Let's see how it looks. I think the motion looks
more interesting that way. Next let's select the key
frames for the rotation axis Y. Hold down the alt key and click on one of the
key frames twice. But here let's change the key
frame velocity to 70 by 70. And let's see how it looks. I think it looks great. Now let's create the
wall for our stairs. However, we don't need to use additional three D
layers for this. We can simply create
the illusion of a wall. Let's see how to do it first. Let's create a new solid
using the shortcut control. Why change the color to the dark pink color
that we have here? Let's darken it a bit
more, something like this. Now let's press
okay, here and here. Next, let's place
this layer below all the layers and move the solid to the right
place for this. Let's stop at this point in time where we see
the stairs in front. Now move the solid to the
center of the composition. We can press the
apostrophe key to display the grid to see the
center of the composition. Now let's move the solid here, while holding down
the shift key. Let's see how that looks. Move forward in
time to the point where we can see the
stairs from a side view. We need to check if we've moved the solid to
the right place. It seems like we have
moved it too much. Let's move the solid
slightly to the right. Looks great. Now let's improve the overall look by
creating an illusion that the wall disappears when
we see the stairs in front and reappears when we
see the stairs from the side. Let's go to the point in time where we can see the
stairs from the side. Now select the solid
representing the wall and press to access
the opacity parameter. Let's set a key frame
for the opacity at this point in
time with a value of 100% Now let's go to the beginning of
the animation and change the opacity
value to zero. At the end of the animation, we'll set the opacity
value back to zero. Then let's convert
these keyframes to ZE's using the short cut F nine. Now by holding down the alt key and double clicking
on one of the key frames, we can adjust the velocity. In this case, we'll set
the velocity to 90 by 90, matching the x axis rotation
velocity of the null object. Press Enter, and let's see the animation to
ensure it looks good. I love it. Now let's create
a background to the scene. Go to the project panel
and select the palette. Now press control,
why to create a new solid and pick this color. Then place this layer
below all the layers. I see that for some reason I
didn't pick the right color. I bring the color palette
to the composition. Now to change the color, I'll select the solid
and press control shift Y. I'll pick the color once again and remove the
palette from the scam. Now I want to ensure that the colors I picked earlier
for the background, for the parts of the
stairs, were correct. I'll select the
solid press control, shift Y, and quickly change
the color to the right one. You don't have to do that if
you get the colors you want. All right, now let's select the three text layers and
change their color to yellow. Once done, the animation
is ready for rendering. But before we render
the animation, let's hit the apostrophe
key to hide the grid. Now let's review it once again to ensure
everything is good. Great, everything looks fine. And we're ready to
render the scene. Press control to
access the render que. Choose the H 0.264 format and select our render folder
as the output destination. Verify that the name is good. Then click Save and Render. Let's wait a few moments for the rendering
process to complete. Okay, now let's see
the final result. The animation looks excellent. As always, you can
share this animation on your favorite social
media platforms. Post it on your
portfolio website or use it in your next projects. Now let's go back to the
project and organize it. Before we close it, let's create a new folder
for the precomps in the scene and drag
this precomp into it. Next, create a folder for
the assets in the project and drag the color palette and
the solids folder into it. We can tag the main comp in blue and press control
S to save the project. With this, we
finished the lesson. I hope you enjoyed
it and learned valuable techniques for
animating in after effects. See you in the next lesson. But before that,
you might want to take a quick break
for about 10 minutes. Get up from your
chair, stretch a bit, and make yourself some coffee. It'll give you a chance
to recharge your brain before the next
lesson. See you there.
29. Section 7: Text on 3D Objects: Hi there. In this lesson, we dive further
into the world of typography in three
dimensional space. We will create a
super cool animation that's perfect for phone
screen resolution. The lesson is split
up into three parts. First, we'll start by
designing the scene and checking out the
cinema Four D renderer. Next up, we'll
animate the scene, make a new camera with a
more interesting angle, render the animation and
get everything organized. Finally, we'll learn how
to swap out the text and design in the scene without
messing up the animation. It's going to be awesome.
Let's get started.
30. Learn to combine text layers with 3D objects: As always, let's
lunch after effects together, close this window. And in order to see the
same panel arrangements, let's click on Default. Now let's create a
new composition. We'll call it text
animation seven. For this project, we will be using a mobile screen format of 1,920 pixels in height
and 1080 pixels in width, with 24 frames per second. The composition will last
10 seconds and we will change the background to
black after clicking. Okay, go to the
Three D Renderer and select Cinema Four D
Renderer for this project. The reason for this will
be explained later. Now let's set the
preview screen to fit so that we can
see the entire scene. Next, let's import the color
palette into the project. Double click on the gray
area in the project panel, select the color palette,
and click on Import. All right, first things first, let's pick the text tool
and type in animated. Now select the text, and let's change
the color to white. Then set the size to 100. And change the Fanta Ezra Bold. We want to make sure it's perfectly centered
and left aligned. Let's head over to the
paragraph settings. To center the layer
in the composition, we'll use the aligned tool
and click here and here. And lastly, to get the anchor
point perfectly centered, just press Control Alt Home. Now let's select the
rectangle tool and create the rectangle that
should be behind the text. Before we do that,
we need to make sure we don't have the
text layer selected. Because if we create
the rectangle, while the text
layer is selected, a mask will be created, and that's not what we want. Let's make sure no layer is selected and create
the rectangle. Let's create it with an
approximate size like this. Now open the rectangle and
its path unlock the size. Enter precise measurements. Here, there's no real
reason for this. I just wanted to show you how to change the size of the
rectangle correctly. Okay, now let's lock
the size again, close it, and color the rectangle with the orange
color from the palette. Now let's position this
layer below the text and change the text color to the
dark color from the palette. Now let's go back to
the selection tool. Set the screen back to fit
and precompose these layers. Select the layers and
press control Shift C. Let's call this pre
comp, text comp one. Make sure both of these boxes are selected and click Okay. Now let's learn how to convert this shape into a
real three D object. Let's enter this pre
comp and convert these two layers
into three layers. But before, let's
enlarge this panel and zoom in a bit so we can
see better what we are doing. Now click here to convert these layers into
a three layers. Ensure that your renderer
is set to cinema four D. Now to see what we're doing, let's change the view
to custom view one. If we zoom in a bit more
to see the text up close, we can see something
weird in the text. It happens because
the text layer and the rectangle layer
overlap each other. To avoid this, select the text. Press P to display the position parameter and move the text layer on its axis. To separate it from
the rectangle, we don't need to
move it too far. Just enter minus one here. Great problem solved. Now let's convert this shape
into a real three D object. To do that, we need
to open this layer and access the property
called Geometry options. Here we'll find a property
named Extrusion Depth. Set it to 100. And
there you have it. But as you can see, its sides have the same color
as the rectangle. Let's learn how to change
the color of the sides. First, let's select the
color palette so that we can see the colors.
You can close this. Now next we need to open the contents and
select Rectangle One. Now let's click on the small
arrow next to the word ad. We'll navigate to side
and choose color. Now we can sample the bright
color from the palette. Let's also color the
backside of this rectangle. To view the backside, we can change the view to back. This way we'll see our
scene from behind. All right, as before,
let's select Rectangle. One, click on the small arrow, and this time choose back. Then select color. Let's pick the pink
color this time. Now let's close this layer
and create the text that will be positioned here on the back side of
this three D shape. To achieve this, let's duplicate the existing
text in the composition. Now press P and move
this layer on its axis. I realized that I was
moving the layer in the wrong direction because
I still couldn't see it. Let's move it in the
opposite direction. And now we see the layer. Now let's change the view to top to figure out where
to place this layer. We can see it here.
From this angle, we can see exactly
how far to move it. Now we should aim to position it very close to the back
of the rectangle at a value of 100 because
the thickness of the rectangle was set to 100 in the extrusion
depth property. But we don't want the text to sit directly on the rectangle. We'll write 101 instead. Now that we've adjusted
the positioning, we can see that the text fits perfectly when
viewed from behind. To complete the process, we just need to flip the layer horizontally by right clicking, selecting transform, and
choosing flip horizontal. Great, let's close the layer
and go back to custom V one. Now pay attention when
we rotate the rectangle, the text we have in this
scene will stay in place. Question, do you know
how to make sure the text stays in sync with the three D object
when it moves. For this we need to use the
parent and link function. Let's select these two layers and link them to the
rectangle layer. Now select the rectangle and press R and check that
everything is working correctly. Now all we have to do is
center the anchor point of the rectangle so that it rotates from its center of mass. Currently, the anchor point is indeed centered on
the layer's center. But because our rectangle is now a three D layer that has volume, we need to center
the anchor point according to its volume. Let me show you what I mean. Let's set it back to zero. Let's set the view to top to
see the scene from above. From here we can see that the anchor point is not centered in the middle
of the rectangle. Let's select the anchor
point tool because the extrusion depth size
of the rectangle is 100. We will move the anchor point
until we see it at 50 here, meaning exactly half of 100. Then we'll hit the
apostrophe key to bring up the grid and find the
center of the composition. After that, we'll switch back to the selection tool and move the rectangle to the
center of the composition. As you can see, there is
the center of this comp. Move it here, excellent. Now we're ready to return to the active camera
and continue. Now let's reduce the
size of this prep. As you can see, the size of this pre comp is very
large at the moment, meaning there's a lot
of unnecessary space. Let's press control K to get to the composition settings and reduce the size to
match the rectangle. Then let's reduce it until
we get the right size. Here in width, we'll write 900. And here in height,
let's try 200. Maybe 300, I think 250
is the best option. That's better. Let's press okay. Now let's press
the apostrophe key to hide the grid and continue. Let's switch the view
to back in order to see the back of the
rectangle here. We'll change the
text to typography. Now let's go back to the selection tool and
slightly raise this layer. Excellent, now let's
switch back to active camera and raise
this text layer as well. Select it and drag it
upwards from the y axis. All right, we're done
with the design. Let's go back to the
main composition. Turn off the background. Now let's duplicate
this pre comp. Before that, let's set
the preview to fit. Now let's lower the layer. You can press the
apostrophe key to see the grid position,
this layer here. Now let's select it and press
control D to duplicate it. Next, let's move
this layer here. Because the snapping
function is enabled, I can't place this
layer exactly where I want it. I'll turn it off. Now let's position this layer directly above the previous one. You can move it with the
arrows on the keyboard. Now, press the apostrophe
key to hide the grid. It's not really
helping us, for now. Let's duplicate this layer and move it above
the previous one. Let's do this a few times
until we reach the top. Okay, so now we can
display the grid. Now let's select
all the layers and move them down while
holding down the shift key. Let's position the layers in the center of
the composition. Great, now we're ready to move on to the next part
and animate the scene. But before we move on, I wanted to give you a heads up
about something important. We forgot to save the project when we first started
working on it. That could be a problem
if the software crashes, which happens a lot
with after effects. And then we need to
start over from scratch. To avoid this, I
recommend that you save your project right after
creating the first composition, because that way we activate
the autosave function. All right, let's
press control now, find the folder for this lesson. Let's enter the AE folder, select this project, and replace the extension
with seven. Once you've done
this, press save and keep working on your scene
without any worries. Now we can move on
to the next part to animate the scene.
See you there.
31. Let's animate the scene: All right, so let's start
to animate this scene. Let's enter the pre
comp we created. Select the rectangle and press R to see the
rotation parameter. Now let's animate the rotation of the rectangle on the y axis. At the beginning
of the animation, we'll create a key frame
with a value of zero. Now let's move to
the second number two and change the value to -180 degrees so that at this point we can see the
word behind the rectangle. Now let's move to the
second number four and change the value until we
complete a full rotation. Here it should be zero and
here you should see minus one. Let's see how it turned out. Now let's make this animation
a bit more interesting. Convert the keyframes
to as E's hold down the Alt key and double click on one
of the key frames. Change the influence to 85%
by 85% and see how it looks. Now looks great. Now let's make this animation
play in an infinite loop. We'll do that using an
expression for this. We'll hover over the stopwatch
icon of this parameter. Hold down the alt key, and click on the stopwatch. Once. Now let's click
on the small arrow, go to Property, and
select this expression. Now click here to
finish the action. Now even after the
key frames end, the animation we created will
repeat itself endlessly. Okay, now let's go back to our main composition and see
how the animation looks. As you can see, we can
indeed see the rotation, but something strange is
happening in this part. To fix this, we need to apply the collapse function
to all the layers. For those who don't see the
icon, you can click here. Now let's activate the function
for all the layers there. We have fixed the issue. As you can see, the preview
playback is very slow. To speed this up, let's change the preview
quality to quarter. Great, Now we need
to create an offset for the layers so that each layer rotates
one after the other. For this, we can use the
plug in we installed in the previous lessons called
Juice Tools Shifter. If you close this panel
and don't see it, you can find it in window. I'll release this panel from the workflow area so that it's more convenient
for us to work. Now with all our
layers selected. Let's see how the
animation will look if we choose to apply the
offset to this shape. This time we'll set
it to two frames. Meaning the distance between each layer will be two frames. Now let's press stagger. As you can see, due to
the offset of the layers, We don't see these layers in the first few seconds
of the animation. Let's learn how to fix this. But first, let's bring this panel back to
the workflow area. Don't close it for now, because we'll go
back to it shortly. Now let's stand at a point where we already
see all the layers. Let's shorten the work area
to here using the key, let's turn on the background to see the scene a bit better. Now let's make the scene look more interesting with
the help of a camera. For this, let's
right click here, go to New, and
select Camera Here. We'll choose one node
camera this time, let's select 15
millimeters and hit Okay. Now let's position the camera where we can see
the scene properly. For that, let's work
with two views. In this view, we
see our scene from a top angle, meaning from above. If you don't see the scene
from the top in this view, then click here to
select this view. You can ensure that you selected this view by this blue frame. All right, and now set
this view to the top. In this view, we see what the
camera sees from this view. We see the all
scene from the top. Okay, Now let's
select the camera, press P and move it backward by changing the
value of the Z axis. Let's move it until we see that all the layers are within
the boundaries of the scene. Let's move the time
indicator to see what happens at the
beginning of the animation. I see that at this point the object goes
out of the frame. Let's move the camera
a bit further back. This is much better. All right, now that we have
positioned the camera, let's go back to work with one view and create a
background for the scene. For this press control y, change the background color to a dark color from
the palette press. Okay, and place the solid layer below all the other layers. Now let's see the
animation we created. Be patient and give after effects some time to
render the preview. As you can see, the layers start rotating from
the bottomost layer. That's what we indicated when we created the offset
using the plug in. Now I want to reverse the
order of the animation. That is, the offset should
start from the topmost layer. This is something
that can happen to you frequently
during the process. We create a specific offset
and then want to reverse it. It's important to
know how to do it. To do this, let's select all the layers and align them back to the beginning
of the timeline. Ensure that the time indicator is at the beginning
of the animation. And now press the
left bracket key. This aligns all the layers with the position of the
time indicator. All right, now before
using the plug in, once again, let's set the preview screen to fit
to see all the layers. Great. Now select all
the layers once again. And let's open the
plug in again. Let's attach it here,
we can resize it a bit. Now let's choose
this arrangement. Two frames is good. Now let's click on Stagger. Let's see the animation. Now that's better. All right, and now we can
close the plug in. Let's also shrink this area. Now let's save the project. Before we move on, press control S. Now let's make some
adjustments to the design. I think the text
here is too big. Let's go back to the
text composition. Select this text layer, press S, and reduce
its size a bit. Let's write -80 minus, because we flip this layer
horizontally in the past. Let's also reduce the
size of the front text. Select this layer, press and
reduce it to 80 as well. By the way, you don't have
to use the words I wrote. You can change the word, font, and colors as you like. Okay, let's go back to the main composition
and see how it looks. I think it looks
better this way. Now let's create a loop for our animation before
we render it. First, let's capture the first
frame in this animation. We'll stand at the beginning of the work area and click here. Now let's move a few seconds forward in time and try
to compare the frames. I'm completely off track.
Let's try this frame. We're getting closer.
Let's try here. Almost there. Let's
try this frame. Okay, the exact time point
is 8 seconds and 22 frames. Let's shorten the work
area to this point. Press N Now let's
check the end of this animation and
try to make sure that when it starts over
there are no jumps. Let's see it again. In my
opinion, it looks excellent. We're ready to
render the project. For that, let's press control. Choose to render it in the H
0.264 high quality format. And select the render
folder for the output. Make sure the name is good. Click on Save and
then press Render. Let's wait for a few moments
now. Let's see what we got. It looks great. As usual, you can upload this video
on social networks, display it on your
portfolio website, and of course, use this
animation for your next project. All right, now let's go back to our project
and organize it. Before we learn how
to add new pre comps with different designs and
texts to this animation, you can close this panel
and close this pre comp. Let's go to the project panel. Create a folder
called pre comps. Drag the pre comp
we created into it. Next, create another
folder called Assets. And drag the color palette and
the solids folder into it. Now let's label the main
composition in blue. Hit Control as to save the project and bring the
quality back to full. Now we are ready to move on to the next part to learn how to deal with changes
in this project. I'll see you in the next one.
32. Learn to replace precomps like a pro: Welcome back. As you can see, all of our pre comps are composed of the same
design and text. Let's see what we need to
do to create pre comps with the exact same animation but with different
designs and text. Currently, if we
enter this pre comp and want to change only the
color of the rectangle, it will change in all the
other pre comps in the scene. All right, so I'll
press control Z, and let's see how to do
it in the right way. First, we need to duplicate this pre comp through
the project panel. We can find this pre comp in the pre comp folder
we created earlier, Press control D to duplicate it. Now we have a new precomp with a two suffix at the
end of its name. Let's enter this precomp. We can select the color palette from here to see the colors. Now let's change the back color
of the rectangle to blue. Next, let's close the layer and change this text
to something else. Double click on this layer
and type the word design. Now let's move to the
beginning of the animation. So we can see the
front part here. Let's change the text
to the word motion. Next, let's select
the rectangle. Choose the rectangle
tool to see its color. Change it from here, or we could change it through
the layer itself. For that, we'll press
the U key twice. This way we can see all the parameters
affecting this layer, including the color
of the rectangle. All right, let's change
the color to white, which is currently the
color of the sides. Let's also change the color
of this word to blue. Let's color the sides orange. Finally, let's
change the color of this text layer to
white. Close this layer. As you can see, we made several changes to the
new pre comp we created. Now let's go back to the
main composition and see how we can integrate the new pre comp
into our animation. But before that, let's switch
back to the selection tool. There are two ways to insert
the new comp into our scene. The first one is we can
drag the new pre comp like this and then try to find a good spot for
it in the scene. In this way, we will
have to perform all the changes we did for the rest of the pre
comps in the scene. It can take some time, or
instead of doing all that, we can simply select the pre comp we want to
replace in our scene. And then drag the new pre comp
onto it while holding down the Alt key. There you have it. We have quickly and easily
swapped between the pre comps. Okay, let's also replace this pre comp with
the new pre comp. To practice it. Once again, select the pre comp we want
to replace in our scene. Now let's drag the new pre comp onto it while
holding the Alt key. Let's do it one more time for the first pre comp. That's it. With this, we have
completed the lesson. If you're enjoying the course, I would greatly appreciate it if you could rate this
course based on your experience and leave feedback so I know if you
found it interesting or not. I recommend watching the
last part of this lesson, once again to understand the topic of swapping
precomps better. But before that,
you might want to take a quick break
for about 10 minutes. Get up from your chair, stretch a bit, and make
yourself some coffee. It'll give you a chance
to recharge your brain before the next
lesson. See you there.
33. Section 8: 3D Text Animation: Hi there. In this lesson
we're going to learn how to create an awesome
three D animation using Cinema four D renderer. We'll be focusing on making a cool text animation on a path. And we'll go over some essential techniques for dealing with complex projects to make
things easy to follow. We'll be breaking the lesson
down into three parts. In the first part,
we'll start by creating the initial text and learn how to position it on a closed path. Then we'll animate the
first text and move on to creating the second text while positioning it on an open path. In the second part, we'll
create a new camera and adjust the layer positions to achieve a more intriguing angle. Then we'll animate
the second text. In the third part, we'll create an eye catching background
using some simple effects. After that, we'll render our
scene and learn how to make changes to the text while
keeping the project organized. Let's get started and
make something amazing.
34. Text on paths: Let's open after effects, close this window, And to ensure that we all see
the same panel layouts, let's click on Default. Now let's create our
first composition. We'll name it text
animation eight. We'll work in full HD format, which means 1,920 pixels in width and 1080 pixels in height. Then set the frame rate
to 24 frames per second. The duration of the
composition will be 10 seconds and we'll leave
the background black. Now go to the Three D
Renderer and change the renderer to Cinema
Four D, and click Okay. All right, now let's import the color
palette to the project. Double click on the gray
area in the project panel, select the color palette,
and click on Import. Now let's save the project
and give it a name. Find the folder we
created for the lesson. Enter the AE folder. Select this project to copy its name and change
the number to eight. Then click on Save. Let's create the first text. Select the text tool
and type typography. Now double click on the text to select it and choose
the Sra font. Let's change the style to black, the size to 100, color the text white
and enable uppercase. Also, let's go to Paragraph and ensure that
the text is centered. Now let's align the layer to the center of the
composition using a line. Click once, here and here. The last thing we'll do is
center the anchor point of this layer using the
shortcut control. Great, let's make
this text circular. For that, let's long press the rectangle tool and
choose the ellipse tool. Now select the text layer and
create an elliptical mask. Hold down the shift key while creating the ellipse to
make it symmetrical. Now press the
apostrophe key to show the grid and switch back
to the selection tool. Double click on the mask and move it to the center
of the composition. We need the small
anchor point of this mask to be located at
the center of the scene. Excellent, let's slightly
enlarge this panel, close the mask,
and open the text. Now open the path options of
the text and select that. Its path follows
the current mask. Now in order to extract the text from the circle,
we'll click here. This way the text will be
positioned above the mask. Now let's make the text spread
across the circular path. We can do it by increasing
the size of the font. Let's set it to 200. Now set the character
tracking to 120. Then we can select the mask by double clicking on it and
scale it symmetrically. For this, we'll hold the shift and control keys
and drag it like this. Next, let's center
the anchor point of the letters to the center. For this, we will close the path options and
open more options. As you may recall
in this section, we can adjust the anchor
points of the letters. Let's move them to the
center of the letters. By entering -45 I will
zoom in to show you the specific anchor points which are represented by these
small red crosses. All right, now that
we have done this, let's move on to
learning how to rotate the letters as demonstrated
in the example. First, we can select
the text and create a new animator with a
rotation parameter. But pay attention when I
change the values here, the letters will rotate to
the side instead of inward. I will press control
Z to undo my actions. Therefore, in order
to make the letters rotate inward in a three
dimensional space, we first need to transform them into three D letters
through the animator. Let's select that. Here you can see that all the
letters are currently in three D. Now we can create a new animator with the
rotation parameter. Now we have several
rotation axis. This is the axis for
sideways rotation, the Y axis for sideways rotation in a three dimensional space. And the X axis for rotation inward and outward in a
three dimensional space. We'll animate the X axis because we want all the
letters to move together. We don't need to use offset to animate the rotation
as we did before. This time will animate
the value directly. This ensures that all the
letters rotate together. Let's make sure we are at the
beginning of the timeline. And let's create the
first key frame here. Now let's move to the end of the timeline and change the
value here to minus three. That means three
complete rotations in the outward direction. Let's see how it looks. Working with three
text and after effects may slow down the
playback rendering time. So be patient with it. Let's wait a couple of seconds
and see it one more time. Okay, it looks good. Now we can give a
name to our animator. For this, close the animator, press enter on it and change the name to
animator rotation. Press enter once again
to complete the action. Now let's transform
the letters into three dimensional objects with real three dimensional volume. For this, we'll open the geometry options to
better see what we're doing. Let's change the angle
to custom view one. Zoom in a bit. Now let's add
some depth to the letters. From here you can write 50. Now let's add some
shading to the letters. Let's close the geometry options and open the material options. Let's enlarge this panel a bit so we can see
all the parameters. And zoom in even more to see
the characters up close. Now in metal, right, zero. And reflect
intensity, right, 50. And reflect sharpness, right? Zero. In reflection
falloff, write 100. Now we can see some
shadows on the letters. I particularly like
the shadows that are created in the circular
parts of the letters, like here in the letter G. Okay, so let's set the
preview screen to fit and close the
material options. Now let's color the edges of the text with a
different color. For this, we'll select the text from here
at a new animator. Go to side, then
color and choose RGB. Now let's take the
eyedropper and sample the blue color
from the palette. Let's change the original
color of the text. For this, we'll select the text layer and choose
the eye dropper from here. Let's choose this color. Now let's move forward a bit in the timeline so that we can see the back part of the text. Now let's color the back part of the text with a
different color. For this, we won't
create a new animator. We'll select this animator and
add a new parameter to it. Click on that, go to back, and then go to Color,
and choose RGB. Let's color the back of the
text with this blue color. This time let's enter the
color and darken it a bit. Now click Okay. Since we finished
designing the text, we can go back to see the scene from the
original point of view. Let's change the view
to active camera one. Now we can select this animator, press enter and change the
name to animator colors. Okay, let's close
all the parameters of the layer and
see how it looks. As you can see the preview
playback is very slow. When we work with the
cinema four D renderer to make it easier
for after effects, we can do two main things. First, we can reduce the
quality of the preview screen. Here, let's select quarter. The second thing we can do
is go to the preview tab. For those who don't
see this panel, you can find it under window. To use the preview tab, we need to select the
compositions panel. We want to make changes. Here we can ask after effects not to render every
frame in our animation. We can tell it to skip
every second frame. This means that
now after effects, we'll skip two frames while rendering the playback preview. This causes the preview playback rendering time to be faster. It might look a bit
choppy during playback, but at least we'll see
the overall motion. And that's what is
important for us right now. It's a great solution, especially for those
with older computers or for really complex scenes with lots of layers and effects. All right, let's press control as to save the project
before we move on. Now let's create
the second text. We don't want any distractions, so let's turn off
that layer for now. Now let's select the
text tool in, right? Super cool, three
text animation. Let's select the text and
reduce its size to 100. Keep all the other settings
as they are for now. Let's just change
the color to orange. Then let's not forget to go to the paragraph panel to ensure
that the text is centered. Now let's go to a line and center the layer to the
composition center. Finally, let's center
the anchor point of this layer using the
shortcut control Alt home. Now let's go back to
the selection tool and create a mask for
this text as well. But this time we won't create the mask with
the ellipse tool. We'll create the mask using the pen tool because we want this text to
be on an open path. Let's select the Pen tool. Now select the
layer of this text. And click here once to
start creating the mask. Now go over here, hold
down the shift key, and click once again. This way the line will
come out straight. Now let's go to the path
options of the text and choose that its paths
should follow the current mask. Let's enlarge the panel a bit. Then let's close the path
options and open more options. Let's center the anchor points
of these letters as well. Set it to -45 Now let's convert these
letters to three D layers. Before we create a
rotation animator, we'll select the text here, click on Animate and choose
Enable per character, three D. Now let's create an animator with
the rotation parameter. We will focus on the
x axis as before. This time we do want the letters to rotate
one after the other. We will control the animation
through the offset. When we control the animation using the offset
of the animator, we do need to set a
changing point for it. This means that we need to set the range selector of
the X axis to one. This tells after effects that
when we move the offset, the characters start moving one after the other and make
a full rotation each. Now let's open the
range selector and Advanced enlarge
the panel a bit. Now let's change the animation
shape of this animator to ramp up so that the rotation starts
from the first letter. Next, let's change the offset to -100 and create the
first key frame at this point in time. Now let's move to the end of the timeline and change
the offset to 100. Let's see how it looks. All right, now let's
change the name of this animator to animator
rotation and close it. Next, go to geometry options, and before we add some
depth to the letters, let's change the view
to custom view one. Let's zoom in a bit and change the quality to full so we
can see what we're doing. Now let's decide how much depth we want to give to this text. I think 20 is enough. Let's close it and
open material options. And let's change the settings. As we did for the
previous text in metal, we'll write zero and
reflect intensity, we'll write 50 and reflect
sharpness, we'll write zero. In reflection fall
off, we'll write 100. Now let's color the
sides in the back of the letters as we did
for the previous text. But instead of creating
a new animator, we can simply open
the animator of this layer and copy the colors. Animator select it
and press control C. Now let's select
the text here and press control V to
paste the animator. Now let's open it and
change the colors. Color the side and pink. Let's color the back
and pink as well, but this time make it
a bit darker shade. Let's see how it looks. I think we need to darken the color a bit
more in the back. Great, that's better. Now let's close the layer and go back to the
active camera. Now let's turn on
the second layer. I think we need to
enlarge this text a bit more open character and increase the
font size to 200. Okay, that's much better. Now let's move on to the next part and
learn how we can make this scene look much
more interesting by placing the layers
in the three D space. And we will do that in the
next part. So see you there.
35. Animating 3D text on path: All right, so first to
differentiate between the layers, we can tag this layer in
blue and that one in yellow. Now let's select this
layer in press R. Let's rotate it on the
y axis by -90 degrees. Now let's close it and create
a new camera in the scene. Right click here, go to
New and select Camera. We will use the one node
camera this time again, let's choose a lens width of 15 millimeters to create a
more interesting camera angle. Now let's select
the camera press and move it to the side. Let's decrease the
quality to quarter so that the project
moves a bit faster. Let's move the camera here. Now select this layer, press R and rotate
it on the Y axis. Let's write -30 degrees. Now let's select this layer, press R and rotate it
on the Y axis as well. Let's set it to -60 degrees. Now you can close the grid. We don't need it anymore. Question, what is the shortcut for opening and
closing the grid? Press the apostrophe
key to do that. Now let's go back to
the selection tool and move this layer to the
right and a little down. Now let's create a path and
a wavy shape for this layer. For this, we'll need to adjust the mask we
created for this layer. But as you can see, because
of the camera angle, we can't see the points of the
mask on this layer at all. Let's rotate this layer
like this for now. Now bring the points
closer to each other. Let's select this point
and move it here. Now select this one
and move it here. Then let's rotate the
text by -46 degrees. Now select the point of the mask path and create
additional points on it. For this, select the pen tool. Click here once to create
a new point on the path. And now let's move it here. We can now move this
point further away. Next, let's select this point. But before we do that, I want you to pay attention
to the icon of the cursor. This icon indicates that
if we select this point, we will actually close the mask. This happens because we are currently selected
on the last point. If we click on this point, after effects think that we want to close the
path of the mask. To prevent this from happening, we can choose the selection
tool and then select the point and move it
outside the frame. Now let's select this
point and make it rounded for this long, press the pen tool and choose
the convert vertex tool. Now click on this point
once to round it. Let's do the same for this
point and this one as well. Now let's go back to the selection tool and adjust
the hands we created here. Great, now we'll
follow this path next. Let's animate this text. Close the layer, enlarge
the panel a bit. Let's reopen the layer. Close the transforms. Now open the text, Open the path options, and animate the parameter
called first margin. Let's drag the
value to this side until we can't see the
text in the scene. Let's hold the shift
key while doing this. That way the value will
change in bigger sacraments, And now at this point in time, create the first keyframe where the text is at the
value we just set. Now let's move to the
end of the timeline and change the value until the text exits the scene from the side. Change the value while
holding the shift key. All right, now let's
see what we've got. All right, in my opinion, we can rotate this layer a bit. Let's close it, select it, and press R. Let's rotate
it around the Y axis, set it to -40 Now let's zoom out a bit
and see how it looks. Let's select this
point and move it here. And the handle here. I'm just trying to create an interesting path
for this text. Change the positions of
the points and play with their handles until you achieve something you're satisfied with. After making some adjustments, always check your animation to see how it looks in motion. I think we can rotate the layer a bit more
in this direction. Okay, I'm quite satisfied
with this path, but now I see that the text is very far from
its starting point. Let's bring it closer a bit. For this, we'll select the layer press and
change the value in the first margin parameter that responsible for the texts
movement on the path. Okay, it looks better now. And now select this layer, and let's adjust this
point once again. Excellent, I love the way the text is getting
out of the frame. And now let's press control les, close the layer, and move on to the next part to create a
background for our scene.
36. How to deal with changes: Welcome back to create
a new background, we will create a new
solid to do this. Press Control. Why? Now
let's change the color. Now, move this layer
below all the layers. Okay, now set the
previous screen to fit, turn off the text layers, and set the quality
back to full. Now let's improve the design of the background and make
it more interesting using an effect we used in the
second lesson called grid drag the effect
onto the solid. Let's move the points of
the effect to the sides until only the horizontal
lines are visible. Next, increase the thickness
of the lines. Set it to 50. Move this point a
little to the left, and this point a
little to the right. Now let's change the color
of the lines to black so that they blend nicely
with our background color. Finally, change the blending
mode to add, maybe multiply. Now let's add an
additional effect to the background
called wave wrap. Let's increase the
wave width to 200. Change the wave type to triangle so that the wave is sharp. Now let's change the
angle of the wave motion. Currently it looks like this. Let's change it to 130. In my opinion, it looks a
bit better with this angle. Now it has a slightly
smoother motion. Great. Now let's turn on all
the layers again and adjust the visibility of the
background according to the extreme camera
angle we have here. I'll explain what I mean. Let's turn off the layers again. Now let's add a
corner pin effect, drag the effect onto
the background. And if we zoom out a bit, we can see there are
four points here. Let's move this point down here while holding
the shift key. And move this point here. Let's move this point down
and this one up here. Now in order not to
see the black parts, select the solid process
and increase the scale of this layer to 150. We
can move it a bit. There you have it. We created
a background that appears at a certain angle that
visually fits our camera angle. Now let's turn on
all the layers. You can close this one, press control to save the project and set the
preview screen to fit. Now let's go to Preview
and set the render of the preview back to zero as
it was at the beginning. Now press the Spacebar to see the entire animation
before rendering it. It may take some time because there are many three
D layers here. Let's wait until the preview
playback finishes rendering, and let's see the
scene one more time. All right, I think everything looks great and we are
ready to render the scene. For that, let's press
control M. Choose to render it in the H 0.264
high quality format, which is a high quality MP four, and select to render it
to our render folder. Make sure the name is good. Click on S and then
click on Render. Let's wait a few moments. Okay, now let's see what we got. It looks great. As usual, you can upload this video on social media and display it
on your portfolio website, and of course, use this
animation for your next project. Okay, now let's go back to
our project and learn how to replace the text
in the animation we created for demonstration. Let's duplicate this
comp from here. Press control D, change
its name to text. Animation eight, underscore two, and enter the new pre comp. Now let's isolate this
layer so that we only see it. Click here to do it. Double click on the
text and type animation or any other word you want. As you can see, the letter count in this word is different
from the previous one. Therefore, we got
this empty space here. That's not a problem. To fix this, we need
to select the text and increase the font size or
scale down the mask itself. I'll press control Z
to undo the action. And let's see how to do
it by adjusting the mask. For this, let's select
the selection tool. Double click on the mask, and while holding
down the control and shift keys. Let's scale it down. Of course, we can
combine both solutions. For example, we can
slightly reduce the mask and increase
the font size. All right, after learning how to make changes on a text
with a closed path, let's learn how to do
it on the text with an open path like the text layer we have
here in our scene. First, let's select the word super and delete all this part. Now we have a shorter sentence. Since the length of the text
in this layer has changed, we also need to change
the animation for this layer according to
the new text length. Which means we need to adjust the key frames on this layer. For this, let's press, you now hover over the first keyframe and change the initial
position of the text. At this point in time, we need to bring the text
a bit closer to the scene. Now let's move to the second key frame and adjust it as well. Let's zoom out a bit so we
can see where the text is. Let's bring this text
closer to the scene. Great, now let's say that we want to increase the
font size of this text, let's say to 250. In such cases, it's
important to make sure that the first and
last positions of the text are correct, meaning that we don't
see the text within the scene. As you can see here. We will see it because we
increase the font size. Let's fix it. Go to the first
key frame and adjust it. Now let's check
the last keyframe. Because we increase
the font size, the text remained in the scene. Therefore, let's adjust
this key frame as well until it looks like the
text has exited the scene. Okay, now let's see
what we need to do if we want to change
the colors of the texts. First, let's set the
preview screen to fit. Select this layer and
press the Ukey twice. This way we can see all the parameters we
changed in this layer. Here we see the colors of the animator for
this text layer. The same goes for this layer. All right, that's
it for the lesson. Let's close this
pre comp and go to the project panel to
organize the project. Before we close
it, first of all, let's long press the vertex tool and switch back to
the regular pen tool. Let's also long press
the ellipse tool and switch it back to
the rectangle tool. Now let's select
the selection tool and click here on
the project panel. Now create a folder
called precomps. Drag the pre comp
we created into it. Next, let's create another
folder called assets. Drag the solids folder and
our color palette into it. Then let's tag the main
composition in blue. And let's press control as to save the project
before closing it. That's it for the lesson. If you're enjoying the course, I would greatly appreciate
it if you could rate this course based on how you
feel and leave feedback. So I know if you learn
something new or not. In the meantime, you
can close the project and we'll meet again in the next and final lesson in this course. But before that,
you might want to take a quick break
for about 10 minutes. Get up from your chair, stretch a bit, and make
yourself some coffee. It'll give you a chance
to recharge your brain before the next
lesson. See you there.
37. Section 9: Stretched Text Animation: Hello and welcome back. We have reached the last
lesson of this course. In this lesson, we will create an advanced stretch
text animation. We will go back to
basics and focus on the most important thing in after effects, the key frames. We'll break this lesson
up into four parts. In part one, we'll get ready
to start our animation by preparing our text and creating a stretched animation
for the first letter. We'll also change up the thickness and
shape of the letter. In part two, we'll keep going with the
stretched animation, but this time we'll do it
for the rest of the letters. We'll also improve the
animation for all the letters. Part three is all about colors and creating a
secondary animation. Lastly, in part four, we'll learn how to create a
sweep effect on the text, create an animated
grunge texture, and integrate that texture into the text using blending modes. Then we'll improve
the appearance of the entire animation
with a simple effect. We'll wrap things
up by preparing the animation for sharing
on social media and rendering it into a high
quality MP four file before we say goodbye. As usual, we'll
organize the project. It's going to be awesome, so let's get started.
38. Basics of stretched text animation: Let's lunch after effects. Close this window and
make sure to hit Default. We all have the
same panel set up, now let's click on
New Composition. We'll name it Text
animation nine. Then let's move on
to three D renderer, since in the previous lesson we change the renderer
to cinema four D, Let's switch it back to
classic three D. Now let's go back to Basic and set
the resolution to full HD. We'll work at 24
frames per second, then set the duration
to 10 seconds. Finally, let's change
the background to black, and click okay, here and here. Now, before we dive
into the last lesson, I just wanted to remind you of a few important things while
working with after effects. First, if you see the
preview screen like this, don't worry, it's probably because your caps
lock key is on. Just turn it off and everything
should be back to normal. Next, when you're working on
a project in after effects, make sure you switch your
computer's language to English. This way, all the shortcuts
we use will work properly. If you don't see the
background color, then simply click here. Now if you see the numbers
here differently from mine, make sure to zoom out
the timeline panel. Now you can hover
your mouse here, hold down the control
or a command key, and click on the numbers here. These numbers
represent the duration of our composition timeline. We can see it in
frames or in seconds. Then if you see
the preview screen smaller or larger than mine, simply click here
and select Fit. Finally, click here and change the preview
quality here to full. Because in the previous
lesson we dealt with effects. We see this panel and
not the project panel. If you see this area like this, just click on the
arrows here and Project to get to the
project panel, great. And now we are ready to import the assets we'll be
using in this lesson. Double click on the gray
area in the project panel. Find the folder we created for the lesson and enter
the Assets folder. Select this image called black wall and the
color palette. Then hit Import. Okay, so now we can save the project
and give it a name. Let's find the folder we
created for the lesson. Go into the A folder and name the after effects file
we're currently working on. You can select this
project for the name to change and replace the
extension with nine. Then click on Save. Now go to the project panel and select the color palette
and create our text. Choose the text tool and select the font
Monserrat right away. Here's a helpful
tip for you guys. When creating a stretch
text animation, it's best to use San Sera fonts, which are those without the
small decorative strokes at the end of each
letter known as ser. Let's choose the Monserrat
font for the style. Choose the light or
the thin version. I go for the thin version, then write the word bounce. Next, let's select the text and change the color to white. Click here for capital letters. I see that the spacing between the letters is too
large for some reason. If it's the same for you,
simply set it to zero. Now let's go to paragraph and make sure our text is
centered in this case, and the writing direction
is left to right. Now let's center the
layer to the center of the composition
using the Align tool. Click here and here. Now to center the anchor
point of the layer, use the shortcut we learn
and press Control Alt Home. Excellent. Now let's
go back to character. And let's say that we have decided to increase
the font to 200. Note that when we did this, the anchor point was
no longer in the. Okay. Let's click here and see what to do in
such situations. After we have made the
design changes to the text, we can press control Alt home to return the anchor point
to the center of the layer. And then press control home to center the layer
in the composition. These are two
shortcuts that work great when working with
text and after effects. Okay, now in order to create the animation
we see in the example, we need to convert
this text layer into a shaped layer with a path similar to how we convert a text layer to create
Outlines and Illustrator. This allows us to
change the design of the text by moving and
adjusting its path. Let's do it in after effects. First, right click on the layer. Go to Create, and select
Create Shapes from Text. The original text layer will
be automatically turned off. We don't need it, so
we can delete it, select it, and press the
backspace or the delete keys. In the next step, we can remove an unnecessary property that exists in these layers
called merged paths. To quickly find it, we can type the word merge
in the search bar. There we can see where this property is
located in the layer. Let's select it and delete it. Let's delete it
from here as well. Now we can close the
search bar and learn how to prepare the text
for a stretched animation. First, let's open this
layer and its contents. As you can see, this layer
consists of all these shapes. These are the shapes of
the letters in this layer. In order to conveniently manipulate each
letter separately, let's duplicate this
layer five times, as that will give us
six separate layers. We need six layers because that's the number of
letters in this layer. Select this layer and press
control D. Five times. Excellent. After duplicating, let's keep only one
letter on each layer. I'll show you what I mean. Turn off the first five layers, then open the contents
of this layer. And keep on the letter B here. Let's select the rest of the
letters and delete them. Now we can close this
layer and turn it off. Let's turn on this layer here, we will only keep the letter, therefore, let's
delete the letter B and the rest of the letters
except for the letter. Now, we can close this
layer and turn it off. Next, let's turn this layer
on and keep only the letter. Let's delete the letters. And B, and the rest of the
letters except for the letter. Great. After that, this layer, we will only keep the letter in here, we'll keep the
letter C. Finally, on this layer, keep
only the letter. Very good. Next, turn
on all the layers. Now let's change the names of the layers to the name of
the letter they contain. Let's select this layer, press Enter and write. Then press Enter again, We will call this
layer and so on. Now let's align the
anchor points of all the layers to the
center of each layer. If we turn off all the layers and select the selection tool, we can see that the
anchor point of this layer is not located
in the center of the layer. If we activate this layer, we can see that the
anchor point here is also not located in the
center of the layer. Let's turn on all the layers. Select all of them,
and quickly move the anchor point to the center using the shortcut control. Great, Now all the anchor points of the layers are centered. All right, and now let's
animate the first letter. For convenience, let's hide the rest of the layers
from the panel. For this, let's select all
the layers we want to hide. And click on the shy
function located here. Okay, so let's mark all these
layers as hidden layers. And also turn them off so as not to see them in
the previous screen. Finally, to activate
the shy function, click on the shy
icon here as well. Now let's get a little
closer to the letter, open this layer
and its contents. As you can see, this
shape is composed of three shapes that create
the shape of the letter B. If we open each shape, we will notice that each
shape has its own path. This is the exact
parameter that we need to animate and create
key frames for. However, instead of manually accessing all the
paths of each letter, we can select this layer and
type path in the search bar. This way, after effects will display all the paths
that exist on this layer. All right, now let's create the first key frames
at this specific time. At the second number zero, the shape of the letter looks exactly how I want it to be. Therefore, we will create initial key frames for the path. Now let's move to
the second number one and change the
shape of the letter. In other words, we need
to modify the path. Let's see how to
do it correctly. First of all, let's move the preview screen so that we can have a better
view of the letter. For those who don't remember how to move the preview screen, simply hold down
the space bar and drag the screen sideways
using the mouse. Now let's zoom in a
little bit more and see how to change the path of the letter at this
particular time. In the meantime, please
don't do it with me. I just want to explain to
you how it works first, then we'll do it together. What we need to do is
simply select the points of the path and move them
to another location. Then automatically, new key frames will be
created at the current time. This is what causes the shape
of the letter to change. Okay, now I will press control Z until I return
to the previous state. Now I will show you
the issues we may encounter while creating text
animations of this kind. Let's say I want the upper part of the letter to
stretch upwards. I will select the desired
points and move them upwards. As you can see, an
incorrect shape of the letter has been created. This can happen to letters
that have a rounded shape, like this part of the letter B. Let's see what needs to
be done to prevent this. I'll press control now. Let's do it together.
Let's get closer. As you can see, this area of the letter consists
of only two points. What we need to do is add
additional points for this. Let's select the pen tool. Let's get closer to this
area a little more now, when we hover over the
path with the pen tool, you'll see that the mouse cursor icon changes
to a plus sign. That means that if
we click here once, we will create an
additional point. Let's create one
point here as well. Now let's move down
to the bottom part of the letter and create
two points here as well. We can create one
here and one here. Now let's step back a bit. Let's switch to the
selection tool. Click on one of the
points so that we can select multiple
points at once. Now let's select all the points located in the lower
part of the letter, except for the two new
points we created. Now let's drag the selected points downwards while
holding down the shift key. Now let's stretch the letter
in the upper part as well. Let's select all
the upper points except for the two
points we created. I see that I didn't
select all the points. Let me select them again. Okay, now let's drag the points upwards while
holding down the shift key. Let's set the preview
screen to fit. Select the lower points again, and drag them further downwards. Let's also drag
the upper points. Let's see what we've
got. Excellent, now let's make this
animation pause for a second before we return the letter to
its original shape. For this, we need to move 1 second forward to
second number two. Now let's copy these key
frames and paste them here. This way we create
a lack of change in the key frames for a
duration of 1 second, creating a 1 second
pause in the animation. All right, let's move
to the third second and return the letter to its
initial shape Question, what do we need
to do in order to restore the letter to
its original shape? To achieve this, let's select
the initial key frames. Copy and paste them here. Let's see how it
looks excellent. If we want to create
a longer pause, we can select those key frames and move them forward in time, for example, to
the fourth second. Now throughout this time, there won't be any
change in the animation, because those key
frames are the same. The change will only occur when we have a change
in key frames. Okay, now let's move the key frames back to the
second number two and move on after we've
animated the path. Let's make this letter thicker. There are several ways to do it. We'll do it in the
simplest way ever, using the stroke of this shape. Let's go here and set
the stroke color will be white and we'll change the thickness through
the layer itself. For that, let's write
stroke in the search bar. Now let's animate this property. We'll go to the beginning
of the animation and create the first key frame with the stroke
thickness of zero. Now to time the stroke animation with the path animation,
let's press you. This will show all the
key frames on this layer. Now let's go to the first, second and create key frames where the stroke
thickness is 40. Next, let's go to
the second number two and create the
same key frames. Because here we have a pause in the animation for that,
we'll press here. Now let's go to the third, second and create
one final key frame with a stroke thickness of zero. Let's see what we've got. Let's make our letter
narrower as it opens. For that, we need to modify
the key frames of the path. It's very important to stand
on the key frames that we want to change and only
then make the adjustments. Now let's select
one of the points. Now let's select
all the points in this section using the
arrow keys on the keyboard. We'll move the
points to the left. You can press the shift
key while doing this to make the points move
in larger increments. Now to maintain the pause in the animation place
the time indicator on these keyframes at
second number two. Then copy the new key frames of the path and paste them
here in their place. Let's see how it
looks. Okay, now let's make this animation
a bit more interesting by adding an additional animation
using the scale parameter. To do this, let's select
the layer and press now We'll set the
initial size of this layer at the beginning
of the animation. Next, let's press you to reveal all the key frames and time the scale animation with them. Now at frame number six, let's set the layer to shrink
to 80% At frame number 12, let's restore the layers size to 100% Let's see how it looks. Okay, now let's create a scale animation
when the letter starts returning to
its original shape. Let's go to the second
number two at this frame, let's set the layer size to
be the same as it is now, which is 100% Now
let's move six frames forward and set the layer
to grow to 120% Next, move another six frames forward, and return the size to 100%
Let's see how it looks. Okay, so far it doesn't
look interesting. But trust me, we'll make
it very interesting in a moment to make
it more interesting, first, let's convert
all the key frames we created into as key frames. Let's select all the key
frames and press nine. Let's see it again, It
already looks better. Now let's select
only the key frames of the path and change
their velocity. To do this, hold down the Alp key and double click
on one of the key frames. Let's write 85, 85 here, press. Okay. Let's see how it looks. Great. Now let's change the velocity of the
stroke key frames. But this time let's
write 95 by 95 press, Okay, And let's see
it one more time. Now let's change the velocity
of the scale key frames. But this time let's
use the graph editor. Now, right click here and
make sure we are using the speed graph.
Let's zoom in a bit. Now let's select this keyframe
and drag its handle here. This handle here, it looks good. Let's do the same
for these keyframes. Now let's exit the graph editor and see the entire
animation from the beginning. Looks great. To make it more interesting, we can click on the
scale parameter and move them one frame forward. Let's see it again
now it looks better. It's a good time to press
control S to save the project. Now let's move on
to the next part. To animate the rest
of the letters, it will be much easier
than you think.
39. Advamced streched text animation: First, let's press here
and unhide all the layers. Turn off this layer and disable the shy function
for all of them. Then let's enable the shy
function for this layer. Now let's press here to hide the layer that we have
already animated. Then let's turn on all the layers and apply
everything we have learned about the
stretch animation to all the layers
together at once. It may sound complicated, but it's not that
difficult. Let's begin. First, let's select
all the layers and type path in the search bar to see all the paths
for each layer. Press Enter and
enlarge this panel. Now at this point in time, which is at the
second number zero, we will create key
frames for everyone. Because at this point, all the letters should
look as they currently do. Now to view only the
key frames without all the parameters around,
let's press the UK. We can minimize this panel
and continue working next. Let's move to the
second number one, as we have animated the
first letter that way. And we'll change the
shapes of the letters, but we don't know how far
to stretch each letter. For that, we can click here to see the layer
of the letter Be. Select it and see how far it extends at this
point in time. Now let's press control
to display the rulers. Let's drag the guides
from the rulers. Place one here and
another one here. After that, press control are
again to hide the rulers. Now let's lock the guides so they don't interfere
with our work. Go to View and
select Lock Guides. Okay, now we know how far we need to stretch
the rest of the letters. You can click here again to hide this layer from the panel. Once again, let's start
to animate the letter O. As you remember, for letters
that have rounded shapes, we need to create
additional points in order to stretch
them properly. Let's choose the pen tool. Select one of the points
so we can see the path. Now don't do it with me because I want to remind
you what I meant. If we drag these
two points upwards, I won't get the desired effect. The same thing goes here. Therefore, we need to
create additional points. All right, now let's
do it together. Let's get a little closer. With the help of the pen tool, we'll create two points here. Two points here. Now
let's zoom out a bit. Select the selection tool and select the points of the
upper part of the letter. Let's get a little closer to see if we've selected
everything we need. I see that I missed
these two points, so I'll select everything again. Now we can zoom out and move them up while
holding the shift key. Next, let's select the bottom
points and move them down. Now let's move on
to the letter you. Let's click on the path here and select the points
in this section. Zoom out a bit and drag them up. Next, let's select the bottom
points and drag them down. After that, let's select
the path of the letter in. Select these points
and drag them up. Now let's select these
points and drag them down. Then let's move on
to the letter C. Let's click on the path here and select the points
in this section. Let's zoom in a bit,
and as you can see, there is a rounded part here. Let's choose the pen tool and
create additional points, one here and one here. Now let's switch back
to the selection tool, select the points
of the upper part of the letter and drag them up. Let's get a little, see if we've selected
everything we need. I see that I missed
these two points, so I'll select everything
again and drag them up. Next, select these points
and drag them down. Finally, let's select
the path of the letter E. Select these points
and drag them up. Then select the bottom
points and drag them down. Great job. As you may remember, after
stretching the letter B, we also made it narrower. Let's supply the same
animation to these letters. Let's begin with the letter. Press its path to
reveal the points. Now let's select the points on the right side of
the letter and move them twice to the left using the left arrow
key on the keyboard, while holding down
the shift key. Now let's select the points
on the left side and move them twice to the left while holding down the
shift key again. Next let's select the
path of the letter. We'll select this
section and move it once to the left while holding
down the shift key. The same goes for this side. Now let's move on to the letter. We'll select this portion and
move it once to the left. Then select this section. And move it once to the right. Maybe one more time. Let's move this
section once more. Okay, now let's move on
to the letter C. But let's not forget to click on the path of this letter
to see its points. Now let's select these points and move them
twice to the right. Then we'll select this
section and move it once to the left while
holding down the shift key. The same applies here. Now do the same
with the letter E. Select this side and move
it twice to the left. Let's see how it looks. All right, I noticed that the letter doesn't
look very good. Let's adjust its path a bit. To do that, we'll
select its path. Note that it's crucial to hover over the key frame
we want to change. In order to change
the path properly, bring the time indicator here while holding down
the shift key. This way, the time indicator will snap to the
nearest key frames. Now zoom in and select
this point first. Like that, only then click
on the desired point. Let's move this point
slightly upward. Now let's do the same
for the upper part. We can fine tune the position of this point using the arrow keys. Okay, now let's take a step back and reach
the second number two. Up until this point, we don't want any changes in the
animation of the pads. Therefore, we need to have the exact same key frames as
in the second number one. To achieve that,
let's press here. There we have created key
frames just like this. Now let's move to
the second number three and restore the paths
to their initial shape. But if we select
all the key frames of all the layers in this way, we'll copy and paste the layers. Instead of just pasting
the key frames, I pasted the layers. And that's not what I
want to prevent that, we need to copy and paste key frames of one
layer at a time. I'll press control Z
to undo my action. To copy only the key frames, we need to copy them one
by one from each layer. Let's select this
keyframe, Press control C, and now press control V to paste it at the location
of the time indicator. Let's do the same for
the other layers. Here we can copy these two key frames because both belong to the same layer. Excellent, now let's select
all the key frames and press F nine and change
their velocity to do this, hold down the Alp key and double click on one
of the key frames. Let's write 85, 85 here, just like we did for the
letter B in the beginning. Okay, after adjusting the path, let's make the
letters thicker and create an animation
for their stroke. Just like we did
with the letter B. Let's select all the layers. Go to the beginning
of the animation and choose white as
the stroke color. Now let's go to the search
bar and type stroke. Enlarge this panel a bit. Now let's create the
first key frames for everyone at this time. And change the value
of the stroke to zero. Now let's press you to see only the key frames without
the other parameters around. Next, let's move to
the second number one, and create key frames with
a value of 40 for each. Then let's move 1 second forward and press here
to create key frames without any changes in value because we have a pause in
the animation at this time. Now let's go to the end of the animation and change
the value to zero. After that, select
only the key frames of stroke to see only them. Let's type stroke again in the search bar and press Enter. Now let's select all of
them and press F nine. Then hold the Alt key
and double click on one of them to access the
keyframe velocity panel, set it to 95, 95, just like we did for the
letter B in the beginning. Great. Now let's display all the key frames by hitting the U key and see the
animation we created. Okay, now we just need to create the scale animation as
we did for the letter B. For that we can click here
to display the letter B. Select it and press S to
display its scale parameter. Now we can select it and press control C to copy
the keyframes on it. We can hide this layer again. Now let's select
all the letters and press control V to
paste the key frames. To see the new key frames,
let's press you once, and then once again
enlarge this panel a bit and move the pasted key
frames one frame forward, just like we did
with the letter B. Let's see how it looks. Okay, now let's bring letter, be back to the
panel, turn it on, and disable the shy function. Now let's make sure we're
not selecting any layer, Press you once and then again to see all the key frames
of all the layers. Let's scale down
this panel and see the entire animation
we've created so far. I think the letters are too
far apart from each other. Let's bring them
closer to each other. Please pay attention to
this part because it's very important to know how to adjust the design of your scene, especially after we've
already animated the letters. This means that
we need to adjust the key frames we
created for the path. Let's see how to do it first. Let's make sure
we're not selecting any layer and type path in the search bar to see all the key frames of all the layers in
the layers panel. We need to rearrange the panels
as we did in lesson four. Okay, let's remember
how to do that First, let's drag this
panel to the side. Next, let's enlarge it a bit. Let's also enlarge the preview. We can shrink this area like this to see more
of the timeline. We can right click here, go to Columns, and
click on Stretch. Now we have more room here. Let's hide this area as
well. Right click again. Go to Columns and click
on Parent and Link. Great, now we can zoom in on the time line to see the
key frames up close. Now let's proceed to
adjust the key frames. First of all, let's bring
the time indicator to the position of the key frames we want to adjust or change. Let's place it at the
beginning of the animation, at the second number zero, where are the first key
frames of the path located? And then move it to the left. All right, let's move on. It's very important not
select all the key frames, but select or hover over the specific key frame
you want to change. Let's also move the
letter with the letter U. We will move to the right for the letter we need to
select both key frames, and then move them slightly
to the right as well. Finally, let's select
the key frames of the letter B and move
them to the right two. Now let's move on to
the last key frames. It's important to move the time indicator
while holding down the shift key in order to place the time indicator exactly
on the key frames. Let's change them to key
frames as in the beginning. Select these key frames,
press control C, and then control V to paste
them in the current position. Let's do this for the
rest of the layers. I see that the letter
C touches the letter. Let's fix that. Let's stand on the key frame when it happens
in the second key frame. Now let's select this keyframe and move the letter
slightly to the left. We also need to change this keyframe to maintain
the pause correctly. Let's stand on it, copy this
keyframe and paste it here. Let's see how it looks. I think it's good. Now we can return the panel arrangement
to its original state. First of all, close
the search bar. Let's drag this panel
down and release it. When we see the bottom
area turn light gray. Now let's restore the
hidden functions. Right click here, go to
columns and click on stretch. Right click again, go to columns and click
on parent and link. All right, we're done with the difficult and the complicated
part of this animation. Now let's move on
to the fun part and improve the appearance and
animation of our scene. But before that,
you might want to take a quick break
for about 10 minutes. Get up from your chair, stretch a bit, and make
yourself some coffee. It'll give you a chance
to recharge your brain before the next
lesson. See you there.
40. Improving the look and the animation: Let's start by
coloring the letters. We can change the
color from here, but then we need to color the
stroke in the same color. This method is great
for those who want to color the fill and the
stroke in different colors. In our case, we want each letter to be
painted in one color. If we do it this way, it
will be a bit challenging, because if we want
to change the color, we will need to
change the color of both the fill and the stroke.
It's less convenient. Let's see how to
do it correctly. Go to effects and presets and look for an
effect called pill. Now let's drag the
effect onto the layer of the letter to see
our color palette, let's drag it into the scene. Now let's go back
to effect controls. And to see the effect, we need to select this layer. Let's change the color of
the effect to this color. Let's drag the effect onto the letter and change
it to this color. Let's continue doing this
for the rest of the letters. We can darken this color a bit. Okay, so we can delete
the palette for now. Now let's move on to creating the offset
for our animation. Let's decide that the letter
B will start moving first, so we'll leave it in its place. Now let's move
forward three frames. We can zoom in a bit. Now let's select all the layers except for the letter
B and move them here. Now let's move
another three frames and move these layers here. Continue doing this
until the last layer. We can unselect this layer by holding down the control
key and clicking on it. Now let's move three frames forward and press the
left bracket key. Once again, let's hold down the control key and click on
this layer to unselect it. Move three frames forward and
press the left bracket key. Let's do this one last time. Great. Now let's
see how it looks. Looks good. But in my opinion, the offset is a bit too big. Let's select the layers we moved and move them
two frames back. Let's hold control and
click on the layer to unselect it and move the
selected layers two frames back. Let's continue doing this
until the last layer. I intentionally repeat
these actions so that you get used to
pressing the correct keys, so your workflow will
be super efficient. Now as you can see, because these layers
start from here, we can't see the letters at the beginning
of the animation. Let's select all the layers
we moved and extend them like this until all the layers reach the beginning
of the animation. Now let's trim them using the shortcut Alt and left bracket. With that, we have finished creating the offset
for the layers. All right, let's move on now. Once the animation of
the letters is complete, can nest all the layers
into a pre comp. For this we will use the
shortcut control shift C, Name it, main text animation. Make sure both are
selected and click Okay. Let's press control as to save the project
before we continue. Now let's enter the
new composition and resize it to eliminate any
empty and unnecessary space. Press control K to access
these composition settings. Ensure that preview is selected. And now let's adjust
the dimensions. Set the width to 1,200
and the height to 700. Now let's delete the guides because we no longer need them. Go to View and click
on Clear Guides. Next, let's navigate to the end of the time
line and shorten the work area so that we can
still see all the layers. Position the time
indicator here and press in to trim the unnecessary part. Right click and select
Trim Comp two, work area. Now let's return to the
main composition and enable collapse on this pre comp to see it at its maximum quality. We no longer need the
guides here either, but this time let's
learn how to hide them. To do this, use the
shortcut control and the semical and key. Excellent. Now let's make the animation even more impressive by adding
a scale animation. Let's create the first key frame at the beginning
of the animation, because we want the layer to be at its current size
at that point. Now let's go to
frame 12 and scale this layer asymmetrically
using the Value property. Click here to unlock
the dimensions of this property and set it to 50. All right, now let's
go to the first, second and restore the
layer to its original size as it was at the
beginning to 100 here. Moving on, let's reach the point where the text returns
to its initial state. Let's create key frames
with the current value, because up to this point we want the layer to maintain
its current size. Now let's move 12 frames forward and change
the value to 120. Finally, in the third second, let's return the layer
to its original size. Now let's select
all the key frames and apply some
easing using F nine. Next, let's adjust the velocity of these key frames
using the graph editor. Select the key frames here and move their
handles to the left. Let's do the same
on the other side. Let's apply these changes to
these key frames as well. Exit the graph editor
and see how it looks. It doesn't look good. Let's try to shorten all these key frames. Let's go to frame number
12 and select them. Now, hold down the
Alt key and move the last keyframe towards the time indicator while
holding down the shift key. Let's see it now that's better. Let's do the same here. Now let's match the
scale animation to the scale
animation we have in the letters animation select all these key frames and
move them one frame forward. I think the timing is better. Now, I'm showing
you this method, so you understand that when
we create an animation, we never know where to place the key frames or the
timing precisely. We constantly make
changes while working. All right, and now that we've got the
text animation done, let's see how we can make
it look even better. See you in the next part.
41. Use simple effects and advanced functions to improve the animation: Welcome back. Let's make
it look even better. First of all, let's enlarge this entire
layer in the scene. However, if we enlarge it
through the scale parameter, we will ruin the
animation because we already have key
frames in this parameter. When we enlarge the layer, new key frames will be created, which is not what we want. Do it correctly, we
can use a null object. What is a null object
in after effects? A null object is a type
of layer that does not render or appear on
the previous screen, but can be used as
a reference point for other layers in
the composition. It's an invisible layer that can be used to
control the position, rotation, scale, and other properties of other
layers in the composition. One of the main
advantages of using a null object is that
it allows you to control multiple layers at once rather than having to adjust
each layer individually. For example, you can
parent several layers to a null object and then control
the layers with the null. Let's create a new null object. Right click here, go to Nu
and select null object. The null is placed
in the center of the layer, and
that is excellent. Now we can link our precomp to the null layer using
the parent and link. Let's drag the pick whip of
the precomp to the null. Let's select the null
layer and process to display the scale
parameter of this layer. Now when we enlarge it, the precomp text will
also scale accordingly. Let's write 150. Now we
can delete the null. Excellent, let's
create this cool sweep that goes over the text. For this, let's make sure we
are not selecting any layer. Then go ahead and select
the rectangle tool. Turn off the stroke and
leave the white color. Again, I remind you to make sure we are not
selecting anything. And now let's
create a rectangle. Now select it here and press R. Let's rotate this
layer 20 degrees. Go back to the selection tool
and move the layer here. Now let's animate it. First of all, let's go
to the beginning of the animation and press P to
see the position parameter. Create the first key frame when the layer is in its
current position. Then go to the second one
and move the layer here while holding the shift key so that the layer moves
in a straight line. Now let's select the key
frames and press F nine. Then hold the Alt key and double click on one
of the key frames. Set it to 85, 85
here and press okay. After that we can cut the layer. Now press Alt and
the right bracket. Now let's find the point in time when we want
the sweep to start. Let's start it at
frame number 12, just before the text stretches
to its maximum nice. Now in order for
this sweep to be visible only on the
edges of the text, we can use the track mat
function and make this layer as an alpha of the pre
comp layer after effects. A track mat is a function that allows you to
use one layer to control the visibility or
transparency of another layer. Specifically, an alpha
mat is a type of track mat that uses
the alpha channel, which is the transparency
information of one layer to determine the
visibility of another layer. I am talking about this
topic in depth and one of the lessons in the
free course that I mentioned at the
beginning of this course. If you want to understand
this topic in depth, feel free to watch the lesson. You can find the link
to it in the PDF file located in the main folder
that you downloaded from me. All right, let's
click here and pull the pick whip of the
track Matt's layer onto the text pre comp. We can also see the text. Let's turn it back on.
Let's see how it looks. Now you can change the
color of the sweet to any other color. I'll
leave it in white. Now we can press to see the opacity parameter and
reduce the opacity to 50. Let's see how it looks. Looks nice. Now let's
duplicate this layer. Press control D, and move the new layer slightly
forward in time. Let's see it again.
Maybe a little bit more. That's better. All right, let's move on. Now, let's select this layer, press Enter and change
its name to sweep one. For this layer, we'll
call it sweep two. Now let's create
this grungy look that we see in the final result. First we need to create
an animation for a specific texture and then
combine it with the text. Let's get started and create the animation for
the grungy texture. For this, we'll use the image of the blackboard that
we have in the project. If we zoom out a bit, we can see that
this image is very large for a more
convenient workflow. Let's go ahead and create
a new empty composition, where we'll create the
animation for this image. To create a new composition, let's use the shortcut control. Now let's define the settings
for the new composition. First of all, let's
name it grunge texture. Change the size to the size
we're currently working with, which is 1,920 pixels in width
and 1080 pixels in height. We'll leave the
frame rate at 24, and the duration of this
composition will be 15 seconds. Now turn off the background
and drag the image here, because the image
is quite large. Let's press S and scale it down. Let's try 45. Maybe
50. That's better. Now let's animate this layer. For this, we will animate the rotation and the
position parameters. Let's start with the
position parameter, press P and create the first key frames at the
beginning of the timeline. Now let's press to see the rotation parameter
key frames here as well. Now to see all the key frames, let's press you after that, let's zoom in on the timeline and move four frames forward. Now let's rotate the
layer like this. Okay, I see that we've
scaled it down too much. Let's enlarge it symmetrically. Hold down the shift key while scaling it. That
should be enough. Now let's move the
layer's position here. Then let's move another
four frames forward. Rotate the layer and move
it to a different position. Let's continue doing
this a few more times. Our goal is to create a different appearance in
the scene every four frames. All right, let's
see how it looks. I see that at this point, the image went up too much. Let's stand on these
key frames and adjust the layer's position
slightly downwards. Now the layer is always
within the scene boundaries. And now to make this
animation more interesting, we need to select
all the key frames. Right click on one of them and convert them into
toggle hold key frames. Now the animation will look like this in a stop motion style, but the movement seems too fast. Let's get to second number one. And when all the key
frames are selected, hold down the alt key and move the last keyframe
to the position of the time indicator while holding down the
shift key as well. I think it looks
better this way. Now we need to make this
animation play endlessly. To achieve this, we need
to create an expression, just as we did in
previous lessons. Let's hold the Alt
key and click once on the stopwatch icon of
the position parameter. Now click here on
the small arrow, go to property and select the expression
called Loopout cycle. Now click here to
finish the action. Next, let's write, click on the parameter and copy
only the expression. And then paste it onto
the rotation parameter. Press control V. Now even after the end
of the key frames, the animation loops
and continues to play. I think it's excellent. Let's see it one more time up. Now let's close the
layer and go back to our main composition to integrate this animation
with the text. First, let's drag the new pre
comp into our composition. Again, to see the texture only within the text boundaries. We will drag the pickwhip
of the track mad of the pre comp texture onto
the prep of the text. Excellent. And to blend the
texture with the text colors, we can click here and choose
interesting blending modes. But instead of going in manually to check each blending mode, we can simply select this layer, hold down the shift key, and press the plus or minus key. This way we can switch quickly between different
blending modes. In our case, we will choose Color Dodge to refine
the texture a bit. We can search for the
effect called levels, drag it onto this pre comp. And adjust the sliders here until we achieve an
interesting result. We can also add an
additional effect called curves and control the
contrast of the texture. Okay, let's close the effects and zoom in a bit to
see how it looks. If you want to disable
the effect on this layer, you can click here and
quickly turn off the effects. Let's see how it
all looks together. I think the texture
is a bit too strong. So let's press the key and
lower the opacity a bit. Let's set it to 50. I think that looks better. Furthermore, we can
improve the visibility of our text animation
even further with a cool effect called
turbulent displays. To use this effect properly, let's create an
adjustment layer. Right click. Go to New and
choose adjustment layer. An adjustment layer is an
empty layer created at the composition
size where we can apply effects and create
filters for our scene. All right, now let's write
turbulent displace here, drag the effect onto the
adjustment layer and adjust the parameters.
Let's zoom in a bit. Our goal is to make the
text appear less rigid. We want to give it a
slightly distorted look. Let's experiment with
these two parameters until we achieve
the desired result. I believe ten for amount and five for size
should work well. Now let's deactivate
the effect and zoom in a bit to observe how it looks with and
without the effect. In my opinion, we still need to make some adjustments
to the parameters. That's better. Now let's
make this thing move. Let's open the evolution
options and adjust the parameter that controls
the randomness of the effect. But instead of
creating key frames, we will use a very
simple expression. Let's hold down the
Alt key and click once on the Stop witch of the property called Random Seed. Now let's scroll down
a bit and write in the expression line time
multiplied by eight. Now let's click here to finish the action and
see what we've got. There you have it.
The text shape is moving in a cool
chunky and random way. Now let's close all
the parameters of this layer and change its name
to the name of the effect. We can select the effect here. Press Enter and copy
the name with control C. Let's select the
adjustment layer, press Enter and paste the name
with control V. Excellent, let's set the preview screen to fit and see what we've got. Now let's make this animation
play in a grungy way. We can do it using a
posturized time effect. To use this effect
on the entire scene, we can create a new
adjustment layer and add this effect to it. Go to the effects tab and search for posturized
time effect. Now we can set the
frame rate to 12, making this animation
look like it's playing on 12 frames per second. Let's see how it
looks. Looks nice. Now you can set it to eight frames per second
if you want it to play, even in a more chunky
way. Let's see it again. All right, let's set it
back to 12 and move on. But before that press control
S to save the project. Now let's copy the effects name and paste it on the
adjustment layer. Great. Now let's return
to the project panel, select the color palette
and create a new solid for the background Press control Y. Next, sample this
color and press okay. Then move the solid down
before rendering the scene. Let's trim the
work area to avoid rendering unnecessary
parts in the timeline. Now go to the second number, 3.12 frames and press in. Now let's watch it one more
time before rendering. Okay, I think it
looks excellent. Now let's press control
and choose to render it in the high quality
0.264 format, which is a high quality
MP four format. Then we'll choose to render
it to our render folder. Let's make sure
the name is good. Click on Save, and then click on Render. Let's wait for a moment. Okay, now let's see
what we've got. It looks fantastic. As usual, you can upload this video on social media and display it
on your portfolio website, and of course, use this
animation for your next project. Okay, now let's go back to
our project and organize it. Before we close it, we can close this panel
and these precomps. Let's go to the project panel and create a folder
called assets. We'll drag the color palette, the texture image, and the
solids folder into it. Now let's create another
folder called precomps. And drag all the precomps we created in the
project into it, except for the main composition. Let's tag the main composition
in blue with this. We have completed the final
lesson of this course. If you found the
course enjoyable, kindly rate it based on your experience and
provide feedback. Congratulations to all for the hard work and I look forward to seeing you
in the next course.
42. Text in Motion project task: Hey there, Awesome job on completing all the lessons and making it to the
home task stage. Your task is to come up with a super cool title using four or five different
types of text animation. Just like I did in this example. You have complete freedom to be creative and experiment
with the colors, text, and animation techniques that we learned in the course. You can even add some funky
background animations to make the title more catchy. I'm really excited to see
what you come up with.
43. Outro: Ladies and gentlemen, we have come to the end
of this journey. I want to take a moment to
reflect on how far you come, you level up your skills, brought text to life, and join the vibrant
world of motion design. Now it's time for you
to take everything you learn and apply it
to your own project. Whether you're
looking to impress your clients or spice up
your portfolio website, now you have the skills and the knowledge to bring
your visions to life. And remember this course
is just the beginning. Motion design is a
constantly evolving field, and there's always more
to learn and explore. So keep experimenting, pushing your boundaries and sharing your creations with the world. I want to thank each and every one of you for being
part of this journey, and I can't wait to see
you in the next one.