Intro to Motion Graphics 2021 [3/5] | After Effects Tutorial

welcome to intro to motion graphics 2021 in this series you'll learn everything you need to know to get started in the world of motion design let's do it [Music] hello everybody and welcome back to tiptop and welcome back to intro to motion graphics 2021 so far we have created the intro and two words or whatever words is that you're using uh during this and we've explored um animating paths positional scale rotation keyframes uh all the basic stuff that you need to get started with motion graphics in this episode we're going to do something a little bit more complicated but not too much so don't panic uh we'll be starting off with this section here where the shapes pop into view the word motion appears and fades away all very simple and then we're going to start exploring masks and layer effects in this tutorial here where the motion word motion pops up and then there's this red bar in the background so nothing too scary but it will be exploring effects and masks and things like that so starting to get into the nitty-gritty of what after effects is all really about motion graphics so back in our main composition we're going to turn on our reference layer and we're just going to start nice and simply by grabbing the text tool and creating the word motion oops excuse me let's position it in place because the anchor points on the bottom right there and turn caps lock off so we can see what we're doing and we'll just position that word motion where we need it and press ctrl alt home to place that anchor point in the middle and with the shape tool selected and with no layers selected down here that's the important part we're going to i'll just eyedropper this yellow to save time we'll just drag out a rectangle that is roughly the same size boom pretty good let's turn off our reference layer again and we'll just rename this layer um a rectangle and we'll press ctrl open square bracket to push it below our text layer then selecting both of these we'll just right click and choose pre-compose like we did before and we'll just call this one motion then double click to go inside and we've got our motion text layer which i'll just make white so we can see it and our rectangle in the background using these we can sort of use them as the base work for the rest of our animation for this section so step one is to do what we did previously before which is to take our text layer here and using my color palette which again i've just got off screen here in intro to motion graphics i'm just going to change each one of these letters into their own color and you can do this by just selecting the text tool highlighting a single layer and choosing that color on that highlighting single layer sorry highlighting a single character and choosing that color on the character i'm just going to copy the blue again like i said before you can use libraries for this but i've had trouble with libraries it doesn't always select the right thing so i've just got my color palette website open that i showed you in the first episode for now i'm just going to hide this background rectangle layer because it's not what we need at the moment so the first thing we had with these shapes popping up one by one before the word motion just faded in and out this is actually a really deceptively simple thing to do i'm going to sample with my shape tool selected the blue on this m and we're just going to create a shape that is closest to the overall shape of the letter in this case just a rectangle the o even simpler is just going to be a circle so go to the ellipse tool we'll sample the red i'm going to go to the center of the shape and holding ctrl and shift we can draw a circle that grows from the center and we'll just line that up the t again is going to be a rectangle nice and simple and between each shape here i am deselecting the previous layer so that it is drawn drawing each shape on its own layer so you can see here deselect so we could rename these m o t i'm just going to duplicate this shape for the eye with ctrl d and then my selection tool just hit okay there scale this down by unlinking the constrained proportions so i can just scale the width just place that over the eye may as well do duplicate the o as well place that over the other o choose blue and for the n we can go ahead and duplicate the m rename it n and pop it over here one thing that might be nice is if we were to split this rectangle to make it more obvious that it's supposed to be an n and to do that we're going to work with a mask so i'm going to select my end layer i'm going to select my pen tool and make sure that i'm selected on the tool creates mask option up here at the top of the toolbar and we're just going to go slightly below our corner point here holding shift we can create a perfect diagonal line let's draw a triangle over that portion of the shape and it will create a mask for that portion of the shape which we can then select the whole layer duplicate it press r to bring up our rotation and rotate that 180 degrees to bring the shape up to the other corner and we can then tweak its position like so that mine let's hide the text layer underneath so we can see what we end up with that's a little bit close so i think i'm gonna increase the gap between those two layers here and then holding pressing s i'm just going to scale those down so that it's a little bit more tweaked i'm going to just adjust the position between these until they are equal and selecting all of them will just press u to collapse all the layers now let's go forward say three frames for each one two three and then press ctrl shift d to split all of those layers and delete the remaining so they only exist for three frames each same thing we did in the previous lesson we can then select all these layers choose right click choose right click do a right click and go to keyframe assistant keyframe assistant sequence layers sorry i'm having trouble speaking this morning press enter on that and that will sequence all of these now we get our nice popping these two however we want them to appear at the same time so i'm just going to drag those two end shapes over the top of each other perfect i am going to shift this over three frames one two three just so we've got three frames at the start and all appears at the same sequence the next step is to grab our motion word motion very simple here and i'm moving quite quickly because this is such a simple thing that we've explored in previous tutorials keyframe the opacity with the shortcut t do it again 10 frames later that was control shift right again let's then reduce the first and last keyframes to zero just like it's loading the motion perfect let's again ctrl shift d to split this layer and for the sake of our sequencing in our heads we can just split that above it and we'll take the rectangle and ctrl close square bracket to push that up and just open square brush it bracket to push the start of the layer over to where our play head is now with that in mind let's turn on the rectangle layer and let's take a look at what our previous animation did the shape kind of pushed itself upwards or scaled itself upwards and the word motion popped from its original position down from the top but masked out by the rectangle so that's fairly simple to do the first thing is to take your anchor point of your rectangle and move it down to the bottom of the shape so we use our pan behind tool and we'll just click and drag that until it's aligned with the bottom of the rectangle and we can take the scale property here with s keyframe that let's say 30 frames keyframe again we want it to end up in this position so we'll go back to the first keyframe and just shift that down excuse me that was uh position not scale we're not doing position yet we're doing scale first so we'll unlink that and reduce the height down to zero we'll then shift p the position and keyframe that and go back to the first keyframe and just push it down a little bit too that just gives us a nice little extra bit of motion as it shifts its way upwards although linear keyframes we know are rubbish so we'll hit f9 on that go to our graph editor and just drag these final points here so we get a nice eased speed there we go much nicer if we take our motion layer which we can see at the moment is uh on top but currently or yellow is that correct no sorry currently at opacity zero we'd want this to be opacity 100 so we can just delete all those keyframes but we only want this shape to appear where the yellow rectangle appears if we look at our original here like so additionally it's also um allowing or is showing through the background color so we want to make sure we can do that as well let's go back to our motion composition here and i'm just going to make it white now just to make things a bit easier and with the rectangle layer selected we can go to toggle switches modes and there will be an icon on one of these screens under the track matte column and we can choose alpha matte motion two we want the inverted one what this means is this layer will only appear where the motion layer isn't if that makes sense so alpha matte would make the motion layer only visible when it's in the confines of the rectangle layer but the invert is the opposite this layer disappears when it is in the confines of the rectangle layer and makes it kind of a cut out which is exactly what we want let's go to our finished position keyframe the position of the motion layer back to the start position and just shift it up so that it slides in like so again f9 on those drag this one over boom nice of course this is only very simple motion at the moment you could add as much or as little nuance to this as you'd like but we've learned about masking using uh track mattes we've learned about sequencing and splitting layers and now we're going to learn about layer effects so the final thing that happens in this example here is this red object that scales up from the center and has this if we zoom in kind of a uh animated rough edge to the shape for one of the better word let's go back to our composition this is very easy to make we're just going to grab our rectangle tool or if you wanted to you could just duplicate this rectangle but we'll draw a new one we'll grab our rectangle tool and we'll just make a rectangle that covers the word motion and we'll push it below those other two layers and we'll make the start of it begin where our playhead begins let's go to scale keyframes let's unlink them again go for a full second and we'll scale it up from 0 to 100 the same as we did with the yellow rectangle but on the second keyframe instead of 100 we'll just drag it so that it only fills a portion and because i don't put any position keyframes we can reposition this however we like to fill the exact center of that motion text now at the moment this scale looks fine let's add some easing to the keyframes exactly the same as it did before should be second nature by now scales up perfect but it doesn't look nice because we haven't added the roughen edges to it like we did in the example so going up to our effects and presets panel give it a second for all the effects to load there we go and we are going to type in roughen edges when you have that roughen edges in your palette just drag that down to your layer and you probably won't notice much first because it's very subtle but you can see that some of these edges have started to bend and warp out of shape if you press ctrl shift h it will hide all of your guides and shape layer edges which allows you to see things like this a bit easier and ctrl shift h again we'll bring that back i'm going to increase the border of my shape a whole bunch also increase the edge sharpness to make those edges sharper and the fractal influence needs to remain at one the scale however we want to crunch all the way down to its lowest factor which gives us this kind of animated noise effect which is nice and the stretch will leave it by itself complexity however will also turn up now it's important to do this on your final keyframe or at any point past it but once you've cranked everything like that up to the top you play with the border in order to see how much of the edge you really want that to affect look at it at roughly 100 to get the perfect amount i'm going to say about 50 works well here these edges are a little bit crunchy for my taste though so you can filter through some of these like rough and rough in color to see which ones you prefer the look of perhaps rusty rusty looks quite nice but it does extend quite far i think i'll stick with ruffin the first one and just increase that crunch and you'll also notice that this isn't animated okay it stays at that style of rough and once the shape finishes moving and we're just going to use a very simple expression to animate this and you'll notice if we twist this evolution dial it animates and we could just go to the start of our layer place a keyframe go to the end of our layer place another keyframe and say like 10 times yeah but what if we come to extend this later on yes that works and it does crinkle but that's two key frames that we again have to worry about if when we come to modify this composition so instead i'm going to alt click so hold alt and click this evolution keyframe which opens up the expression window for that specific thing very simple time and then asterix which is the um calculator command for times as in you know four times five or whatever time times let's put 50 in there see what happens and then a semicolon to close that line of code all this means is over time at a rate of 50 animate this element now it is animating but it's very slow you can see so we don't want 50. let's try something drastic like 500 much better now this will animate forever and ever until we choose to stop it with another expression okay so boop pops up like that let's take a look at our original file i think that is the last thing that that shape does yes indeed so let's pop back to our main composition we have our shape here however we want it to be below this two layer because the two layer has a multiply on it and if we check our reference it's slightly off position wise so we can fix that by just tweaking until we're happy that looks better to me let's hide our reference and choose its starting point so do we want it to start straight away let's see what that looks like that looks pretty good to me actually at that timing so i think that looks pretty good all right so in this episode we learned a little bit about track masking we learned a little bit about effects layers and things like that and we learned about well we continue to learn about pre-composition which is what's going to be very important in our next lesson because in the next lesson we'll be exploring this graphics section here where all of these layers come in individually rotate into place find their position but you'll notice that each of them has the same interior pre-comp i.e different parts of the same pre-composition so this is where we basically turn everything that we've learned in these previous lessons and place it into this final section for now though that's plenty to be getting on with so i hope you join me for the next lesson in this series i hope you've been enjoying it so far if you have please consider subscribing ringing the bell etcetera and i'll see you next time for another episode of top massive thank you to my level 2 and above members wn 62 motion explainer maybe sharma in costello lomo 16 katma rob v jason carraddy mpd missouri followers melon hoover two steps to shield josh colon oscar femanska the sorcerer lolly lululo x andrew hammond janna kerry jk digital creations jobs animations paul german sergio delegato rallica m and lorraine abdullah thank you so much you lovely lovely people you're all beautiful click the join button below for 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Length: 18min 50sec (1130 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 01 2021