Create DOPE Infographics in After Effects - After Effects Tutorial

this after effects tutorial is sponsored by envato elements hey guys what's going on i am nick hill from dopemotions.com and welcome back to this brand new after effects tutorial in this video i'm going to show you guys how to create a very cool looking infographic animation inside of after effects now if you're watching my video for the very first time please do consider subscribing to the channel i post motion graphic tutorials every single week and in case if you're not interested in infographic you are more of a logo animation and motion graphics guy then i have a complete playlist that you can check it out i have mentioned the link in the description below with that said let's jump straight into after effects and get started [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right so here we are in after effects let's start by creating a new composition let's go with 1920 by 1080 30 fps and 10 seconds long i'm going to call this render let's hit ok and for the animation i will be using a simple image of a torus you can create the stories in cinema 4d or 3ds max whichever 3d software that you use or you can download the free project file from the link in the description which contains all the assets and the complete project file of this tutorial so let's drag in this circle into our main ready comp also hit ctrl y to create a new solid called this bg for background hit ok drag that below the circle go into effects and preset and search for ram i will be using a gradient ram for our background you are free to use whichever color that you like i'm going to swap this up let's go with a nice darker blue and for this one i will keep it a bit of a lighter shade now obviously when using gradient you are going to get this kind of color bending so to fix this let's increase the ram scatter all the way up to 100 and also i'm going to add some noise on this so let's go into effects and preset and search for noise and double click to apply that uncheck the use color noise and clip result values and set the noise amount to one and then hold alt and click on the small button so it's going to switch from 8bpc to 16bpc this is going to help us to get rid of any kind of color bendings now you may see a little bit bendings but that is because of the youtube compression and for the colors i think i'm going to increase just the saturation a bit and for this one i'm going gonna make this a little bit just like so so it's looking good and now let's select the circle png that we have go into effects and preset again and type in triton this is going to help us to color the complete torus so first of all let's set this to something like a gray color and bring down the opacity so hit t and bring that down to 25 percent should be fine or maybe i can make this a bit more like so then hit ctrl d to duplicate it hit t and bring up the opacity to 100 and then you can apply whichever color that you want so i will be using or going with a nice blue color like so and for the highlights i will add a blue as well just a little bit all right so that is looking pretty good now let's select the eclipse tool and make sure you're walking in the shape layer going to fill and set this to none we only need the stroke so let's keep it at around somewhere around 200 something let's start with 150 and from the center so make sure to turn on title action safe and from the center i'm going to hold ctrl and shift at the same time and create a circle so it covers up the complete torus like that and you can obviously align this into the center using the align tab you can find this tabs under windows align and for moving the anchor point i'm using a simple free script you can hold ctrl and double click on the pan behind tool that should fix the anchor point in the center let's call this mask and select the circle and go into track matte option set this to alpha matte now if you don't see this track matte make sure you hit f4 on the keyboard that should make it visible and now i'm gonna go into the ellipse go right here and click on the small button that you see so go right here and let's add a trim path and now if i animate the trim path you can see we get this really cool look looks pretty nice let's also increase the uh shape size a bit of the path so somewhere around 200 should be fine and that is looking pretty good now let's go ahead and um add our text so i'm gonna select the text tool and type in zero to get started and let's increase the size you can use any font that you want i will be using a baby's pro bold that looks pretty good and i'm going to make sure it's in the center actually i'm going to type in a higher number so let's type in 10 dual digits fix the kerning to 0 align this into the center properly all right that is looking good and on this text layer i will be using a slider controls go into section preset search for slider control double click to add that on the text then go into the text source text hold alt and click on the stopwatch and then parent this or link this to this slider control so now we can animate the numbers using this so let's set it to zero at the very start create a keyframe go to three seconds and set this to somewhere around maybe 70. so boom there we have it but there is something wrong we don't need all these decibels so to fix this i'm going to go into the expression and just simply type in period value period i want the value to be fixed so type in 2 fixed make sure the f is capital open and close parentheses and now the values are going to be a solid number and that is what i want now i want to add a simple percentage sign at the end of this text so to do that i'm going to go here and add plus and type in sorry plus and type in the percentage sign and boom there we go there we have it and here we have our animation ready to roll now you can anytime change this so all you have to do is jump to three seconds that is where our keyframe is and you can change this to any value that you want so i'm going to leave it at 70 percent and then go into mask go into the trim part let's also lock the effect and control of the text layer hold alt and click on the end stopwatch and link this to the slider control and now boom there we have it so i can set this to any number so let's set this to 75 and now we have a really cool animation so the base of our animation is ready now we can make it look even more better so let's select everything basically these three layers hit ctrl shift c to compose them i can call this animation and then go into effects and preset and let's add some glows on this all right let's increase the glow radius to 200 or something that looks good and let's bring down the glow intensity to 0.5 and we get a very very nice look now you can even make it look more cooler by jumping into the animation comp select the mask layer go into effects and preset and search for radial blur cc radial blur add that and now if i increase this we get something like this and now if i go back we get this really really cool look which i personally love it so you can leave it at that or if you want you can make it really intense but that won't make any sense so i like to keep it around somewhere around there around 25 should be fine so i personally like this look a lot and there we have a really cool looking infographic finally i'm gonna add some text so let's type in sales so it's gonna be the percentage of our sales growth make the smaller place it right here and there we have this really nice infographic animation inside of after effects using this very simple techniques now obviously you can create a number of different shapes you can use icons 3d icons and stuff like that and use this very simple but a very creative technique for creating some very cool looking infographic you can jump into the circle and change this to a different color so if i want i can maybe make this pink and um you know get a really cool look boom there we go now before we 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dope.motions i have all the links in the description below with that said i will see you guys in the next video till then take care and always stay raw stay creative peace out

Channel: Dope Motions

Views: 21,608

Keywords: after effects, after effects infographic tutorial, after effects tutorial infographic animation, infographics after effects, circle infographics after effects, modern infographics, modern infographics after effects, infographics motion graphics, dope motions

Id: 1TrBCgqVnr4

Length: 11min 10sec (670 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 13 2021