After Effects Tutorial | Instagram Story Animation in After Effects

hey guys welcome to Skyline motions and in this tutorial I'm going to show you how to create this type of Instagram story animation in After Effects without using any third-party plugin so let's open After Effects and get started alright so first of all we have to take a new composition so click on this new composition let's call it main comp and set this resolution 1080 by 1920 set this framerate 30 and duration make it 10 second and hit OK ok now we have to take one more composition that is going to be our media placeholder where we can add our image so go to composition new composition and let's call it media 1 and set this 1080 by 1920 30fps and 10 second long hit OK okay now we have to import our image file that we want to use in this composition so right click over here import file and import your image file so I am using these two images which is downloaded from pixabay.com and link given in the description so go to the link and download this image if you want and click on import now let's rename this image so right click over here rename and let's rename it to image 1 and select this image right click rename and rename it to image 2 and hit enter now select this media 1 hit control D to duplicate and double click on this media 1 and let's open it up and drag this image into this composition and let's fit this image so hit S on the keyboard to bring out the scale properties and let's scale it up and set this image and let's set this size maybe 190 percent and set it over here all right so now double click on this media 2 and let's open it up also and drag this image 2 into this composition hit S on the keyboard to bring out this scale properties and let's fit this image according to our comparison size something like that now go to your main composition and let's import media 1 into this composition ok and hit s on the keyboard to bring out this a scale properties and go to around six second and click on this a stopwatch button to add a keyframe on a scale property and go to the beginning of this animation and I said this value may be around one thirty percent so now we have a nice scale animation now let's create a background so hit control Y to take a new solid and let's call it BZ and hit ok now go to effect generate and Harry's gradient ramp so click on this option and add a gradient ramp effect and click on this swap color and pick this start color something like that ok and pick this int color maybe like purple okay now drag this background below this media one comp okay now we have to create a sip layer that we will be using as a track mat so click on this rectangle tool and select this rounded rectangle tool and set this field to solid color and set this is truck to none okay and draw a rectangle something like that and right click on this shape layer and let's rename it to mat and hit enter now open this rectangle one and click on this rectangle path one and here is roundness so set this around this value maybe around 800 and hit enter and unlink this size and set the size value maybe around 2000 and hit enter okay now let's close this and hit P on the keyboard to bring out this partition properties and set this position over here and set this in center also you can also click on this line and click on this button okay and so this value maybe around 750 and good inter all right so now let's animate this show go to around three second and click on this stopwatch button to add a keyframe on position properties and go to the beginning of this animation and select this move tool hold left mouse button sift and drag it over here okay so now we have a nice animation and go to around four second and click on this diamond button and add a keyframe over here also and then go to around six second hold left mouse button sift and drag it below so as you can see we have a very basic animation so let's make some more interesting animations so select all these keyframe hit f9 on the keyboard to easy is these keyframe and go to your graph editor if you graph it it not looking like this then right-click over here and click on this edit speed graph ok and select this point hold this handle and drag it and create a graph something like that hold this handle also and drag it now select this point and hold this handle and drag it over here and close this graph editor so now it's looking nice alright now go to your track map option if you can't see this track map then click on this toggle switch ok and select this media one and select alpha Matt okay so now we have a animation something like that now let's create a border around these edges so select this Matt hit ctrl D to duplicate and let's enable this layer and click on this field set this to none and set this is truck to solid color and said this is truck value five pixel and pick this color pure white hit okay so as you can see we have a nice order around these edges now click on this weight button okay now select these three layer and select a color for better visibility okay now let's create a duplicate so hit control D and drag these three layer over here something like that and pick a different color okay select these matte layer and hit U on the keyboard to bring out this keyframe and go to around three second and set this value may be around 600 and go to on for second and set this value 600 and hit enter and now let's play this all right now select these three layer and move this layer on 15 frame something like that and let's play this so now it's looking something like that and now let's apply some effect on this bottom layer so go to your effect and preset and search for paint so this is our teemed effect let's apply this on media one okay so now we have a black and white image and let's apply another effect called curve and apply this curve over here and let's say the blue Channel maybe like that okay now close this and now let's apply one more effect directional blur so this is our directional blur apply this on media one and set this blur length value may be attained percent okay so now it's looking something like that okay now set this resolution or two okay now select this layer and right click over here and click on this precomposed and let's call it slide one move all it Bute and hit OK alright now go to your project select this slide 1 hit control D to duplicate and drag this slide 2 into this composition and double click on that and let's open it up and let's replace this media one with this media - ok so select this media one hold alt on the keyboard and drag this media to into this layer and select this one also hold alt on the keyboard and drag this media to into this layer okay and then go to your main composition and go to around six second and drag this layer over here and let's play this all right so it's looking nice okay now select this media one and drag it below this slide one and hit T on the keyboard to bring out this opacity and set this opacity maybe around 25% sorry maybe 10% and hit enter so it's looking something like that and let's add scale animation so hit test on the keyboard to bring out this scale properties and go to around six second and click on this a stopwatch button to add a keyframe on scale and go to beginning of this animation and set this value maybe around one thirty percent and hit enter so now it's looking something like that okay and now drag this media to below the slide one and set this opacity so hit T on the keyboard to bring out this opacity and set this opacity maybe around ten percent okay and go to around five second and fifteen frame and select this media to hold alt an open square bracket to cut this layer and select this media one hold alt on the keyboard and hit close square bracket to cut this layer over here okay and let's add a scale animation so hit S on the keyboard to bring out this scale properties and go to around ten second and click on this a stopwatch button to add a keyframe on a scale and go to around five second and fifteen frame and set this scale value maybe one twenty percent and hit enter alright so now we have to add text so go to around four second and type a text over here so click on this text tool and type a text so I'm tapping love and you can choose any type of font style but I am using century gothic and set this to bold and set this size maybe 140 pixel and let's align this into Center and hit P on the keyboard to bring out this position properties and set this text over here and now let's duplicate it so hit control D to duplicate and let's type second text so hit control a to select all this text and type select this and set this into Center okay and let's hide this for a second and go to round two second and click on this stopwatch okay and go to very beginning of this animation and drag this text over here and select all this keyframe hit f9 to easy is this keyframe and go to your graph editor and select this point hold this handle and drag it okay so now we have a nice animation okay and drag this text below this slide one and close this and go to around five second and fifteen frame and select this text and hold alt and hit close the square bracket to cut this layer over here and select this one hold alt and open square bracket to cut this layer and drag this layer below this slide one okay and now let's enable this and go to around seven second and fifty frame over here and hit key on the keyboard to bring out this position properties for this forever text layer and click on the stopwatch button to add a keyframe and go to around five second and fifty frame and drag this text over here okay now select these keyframe hit f9 to easy is this keyframe and we're graph editor select this point and drag this handle over here okay and close this graph editor okay now select this keyframe and move this over here okay what we have to do now let's add drop shadow effect so select this slide 1 and search for drop shadow and let's apply this on slide 1 and slide 2 and set this distance maybe 50% and set this softness maybe around hundred and hit enter and set this opacity 25% so now we have a nice drop set effect and so the same value for this slide too so set this distance value 50 and softness 100 and hit enter and set this opacity maybe 25% and hit enter click on this fit button so now it's looking nice and finally click on this toggle switches and let's enable motion blur for this animation so click on this motion blur and let's enable motion blur for all this layer and double click on this slide 1 and let's enable motion blur for dish also and go to your slide to click on this toggle switch age and let's enable motion blur and then go to your main comp and let's have a look alright search looking awesome and that's all for this tutorial guys I hope you liked it so I will see you in next tutorial till then bye bye [Music]

Channel: Skyline Motions

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Length: 18min 4sec (1084 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 06 2018