After Effects How to move object along circle path | AE Tutorial

Hello, this is a quick video to show how to move object, move along a circle in After Effects I will show you two ways firstly, I open a new composition rename it to how to move along Circle and I keep it in this setting and okay to create new composition and then we can import Graphic Artwork, this graphic I downloaded from freepik.com you can find the download link in this video description now I click and drag into the  composition I have a space for the background, and I have a Earth and I move the satellite in front of the Earth the first way is to use an Anchor Point, for example we can move the Satellite here, we can find that the anchor point that is the center point of the layer we can move it I will move it in the center and then open the layer and transform we can go to set the keyframe on the rotation and then move to the six second, we can rotate it rotate along the Anchor Point I'm going back and we can set one rotational to the keyframe so we can move it, move the satellite along Circle this is the first way to move object along the circle I make the satellite invisible , and add another satellite the second way is, move along a circle path make sure that we don't select any layer and then use  the ellipse tool and also make sure that we check the box Bezier Path and go to the composition  and click shift and left Mouse button to add the perfect circle and then we can make alignment, we  can find the alignment window here or we can go to check this to show the align window and I make it in the center and then go to the circle layer open the path and highlight this layer and go to  edit and copy and then go to the satellite layer, open the transform and highlight the position go to edit and paste we can make adjustment to Move It Center, so preview the animation is move around the circle if we want to have another Direction, make sure that we select the time frame on the position and go to Layer > Time > Time Reverse Layer and move to the first second so we can move it in clockwise we can check that the rotational is pointing One Direction if we want to point to the Earth we can go to Layer > Transform and go to Auto-orient and check orient along path, and okay finally we can adjust the rotational point to the Earth so we can move object along the circle path furthermore, if we want to make the movement slowly we can select the position layer here and go to graphics editor and select all the points and extend the time so the object movement is slower this is how we can move object along a circle in after effects, thank you for watching this video , hope this helps please subscribe this channel , more video will be shared with you I'm artist B, see you in the next video , bye-bye

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Id: RS0Oe_cjKHs

Length: 4min 53sec (293 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 28 2023