How to make ANIMATED LINES for MOTION GRAPHICS in After Effects

yo what's up guys this is Alias and in this video I will show you how to make this really cool looking lion path animations and after effects and this tutorial is part of a bigger Motion Graphics tutorial series and I will put a link in the description for a whole playlist where you can find more easy tutorials but yeah I'd say let's start with this one so let's go into our our new composition and I just made a little background but let's focus on these on the light paths and animations so let's just add a new shape layer right here and then make sure to select the pen tool on top of this tool setting thing yeah and root Dependable selected we can just draw a path which the line should follow something like this maybe and yeah make sure to select the shape layer and open it up and open up the contents open up the shape and select the fill and press delete so we just get the slide so then we can open up these stroke settings and turn up this value right here to something like 30 and yeah this looks good but of course it's it's not animated at all so let's do this real quick so let's go to contacts again and press add to add the trim paths effect and yeah open this up as well and decrease the the end to zero at the beginning and just place a keyframe and then go forward to like yeah three seconds or however fast how long you want it to take and just turn this up to 100 again so we'll do like this nice animation but we also want the tail to come with it and not just be like this so let's go not to the beginning but a little bit after the beginning and also press the keyframe at start and then just go right to the end and a little bit after the end as well and turn up the star to 100 percent so this just moves this way and depending on how we place the star keyframes um yeah the length changes so if we pull this forward the length will be longer if we put it backwards the length will be shorter but yeah this is up to you basically I'll just go with this one oh not this one but this one and yeah this looks cool but we will also wanted to look a little bit better so let's also go to the stroke settings again and change the line cap to round cap so we've got this rounded cap and we can also go to table and change the start length to 100 so we'll get this nice effect and yeah that's it already you can of course just duplicate these and make sure the pen tool is selected to just yeah give it some other paths like this maybe and you can just make multiple ones and yeah that's it basically thanks for watching and yeah make sure to check out the emotion Graphics playlist which I will link right in the description so see you there [Music] thank you [Music]

Channel: Alias

Views: 5,150

Keywords: motiongraphics, line animation, after effects, after effects lines, after effects line animation, tutorial, adobe

Id: uqwmse2SYgM

Length: 4min 4sec (244 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 29 2023