Intro to Motion Graphics 2021 [4/5] | 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 intro to motion graphics 2021 and to tiptur um we're going to carry on with our lesson today we've created this stuff so far which looks pretty good to be honest um but now we're on to probably the most complicated part of the animation that's this graphics section here as you can see if i double click my all footage and just scrub through it when we have our graphics appear that is the word graphics as well as the visual graphics um it comes in in sections these sections come together there's spinning elements inside those sections the letters spin then there's this venetian blinds kind of effect behind the text as well and excuse me i'll just drag the wrong timeline there and the letters themselves also wiggle so there's quite a lot going on here but um deceptively simple because it's actually all done with one composition so let's just jump right into that here in my main composition i'm just going to turn on our reference layer again so we have our final thing and we'll zoom in so as you can see it starts off pretty simple with just a basic rectangle so i'll use my eyedropper tool to just grab these colors to start with and i'll draw a rectangle that's roughly the right size we will rotate this at the end and for now just keep everything flat so i'll just line it up visually so it looks about right it doesn't have to be exact of course because we're remaking it so that's our base colors there now additionally we're going to need that second rectangle around the outside so i'm just going to hit ctrl g with my shape layer selected and we'll name these we'll name this rectangle and we'll name this one line the second one which we've renamed line i'm going to alt click on the fill until that disappears and then on the stroke i'll just pick my blue color again for the basic basic color and we'll paste that in place there then with the shape selected we'll just drag this out to make it a little bit bigger and we'll give it a stroke width of about four and that looks pretty good let's uh hide our reference leg this is a bit distracting and we're going to need the word graphics in text so we'll just type that out to graphics and i'm going to move my anchor point with the pan behind tool and of course you can use the shortcut ctrl alt home to place it directly in the middle which is what we want to do so then i'll scale this up and center it with my other shapes so i'll just select all three of these shapes go to my line window and just choose center center so now they are all aligned visually to each other's center which is great so from here we can we can pre-compose these right click and choose pre-compose and we'll just call this one graphics and move all the attributes yes indeed let's double click to go inside that and now we're working once again in our isolated workspace which is great so first step is to change these colors of the backgrounds rectangle and line to a gradient so i'm going to alt click on my fill which will give me a gradient alright it's already popped in place which is great but i'll just show you you can select either color stop here choose a color from your palette paste that color in place just check it's the right one and hit okay and then you can drag these sliders to position your gradient however you'd like i'm going to do the same thing on the line around the outside like eminem and we'll reposition that but the opposite direction and now we've got this graphics gradient color going one way and the other way which is perfect just like before we're going to right click our text and choose create shapes from text which gives us our live graphics as an outline and also just like before we're going to duplicate and delete this layer until we have all of our letters separate so g r a p h i t s then on the first layer here we'll just select all of these and delete them on the second layer we will select everything except the r and delete it and so on and i'll just fast forward to that because we've done it before so now we have all of our layers separated out into different sections which is great so we'll select each of these layers here and press control alt home and that will place their anchor points in the middle which is fantastic so let's take a look at animating these first because it's the simplest bit uh on all of these layers we want the same thing to happen which is the scale so s and the rotation so shift r to bring up both and we just want them to spin and scale up so we'll keyframe all of those move over say one second so ctrl shift right right right place another keyframe and then back on our first keyframe we'll put the scale down to zero and on our second keyframe we'll put the rotation up to one full time round so one plus zero degrees select all these keyframes hit f9 go to our graph editor and make it go from fast to slow so all the same stuff we've done before you should be getting pretty consistent at this now looks okay but let's sequence those layers so that they start one after the other i'm going to press ctrl right maybe three frames and then alt close square bracket to cut off my layer now we've done this before i think in this series so i'm just going to shift select all of these layers right click and choose keyframe assistant sequence layers what this does is positions each layer in the order that you clicked them one after the other with no overlap as long as you set now overlap then we can just extend our layers again back to the end of the composition and we have our layers now spinning in one at a time they are however currently filled and i do believe in the original that they were strokes and then after the stroke has finished rotating in we have uh this some kind of venetian blinds effect in the background so we'll fix that now as well let's go back to our motion comp uh sorry not our motion combo graphics comp and i will just alt click with these layers selected until we remove our fill click once to get our stroke make sure it's a white stroke there we have our graphics word created so to create this venetian blinds effect i'm actually going to duplicate my layers here so g through to s just duplicate that with ctrl d and we'll press ctrl open square bracket to push them below then we can just precompose this just to keep it neat and we'll call this graphics inner so that's going to give us a composition underneath if we go inside that composition we can alt click our stroke until that disappears and once again give ourselves a fill this time we'll just make it black and so we can see what we're doing we'll just click this small button here next to the active camera pop up which makes the background of our composition transparent i'm going to just collapse all of this down until we get our keyframes and we don't need our keyframes in here so i'm just going to remove them by deleting them and let's make sure that our layers are visible for the entire time now if you haven't moved your playhead you should be at the point where your last um keyframe ended if not just go back to that last keyframe and go to your graphics inner again and you'll find yourself just where that last keyframe is we're then going to create an adjustment layer with ctrl alt and y and we'll rename this venetian blinds and go to our effects and presets panel and find the venetian blinds transition if you apply it to the adjustment layer it will affect everything underneath it which is great so we're just going to drag our transition completion up to 50 just for now so we can see where our what our work looks like and i'm going to choose 45 degrees for this to put it at 45 degrees obviously quite easy this one we'll just drag the transition completion to 100 and keyframe it go over one second change that back to 50 boom there you go let's give it a bit of easing in the same way that we usually do and we have our venetian blinds coming in let's press tab to bring up the mini composition flow tar flow tart flow chart rather and go back up to graphics and there you go all we'll do now is we'll offset this a little bit just by moving it down and let's try playing with the blending mode what a soft light looks like that looks much better and let's drop soft lights opacity down to about 40 and now we have our letters spinning in and our venetian blinds appearing which is fantastic in our main footage you can see that when the graphics appears and the background venetian blinds has finished coming in you'll notice that if you watch carefully the line around the box fills in from start to end so we just need to add a line trim to that line around the edge so let's do that let's collapse everything oops i could go back to the motions one rather than the graphics one it's my mistake let's collapse everything and take our line and we'll just add a line trim to it very simple so let's pull this layer down and choose this add icon here and we'll choose trim path this one's nice and simple we have a start and an end property we're just going to drag the end property down to zero you'll notice that it starts over here on the right hand side if i press ctrl shift h that will hide and show our guidelines so i can just see more clearly where we actually wanted to start is in the middle so if you drag your offset back a bit until it goes to roughly the middle and of course you can then press ctrl shift h to bring it back and make sure that it's perfectly in the middle out there then when we uh when our line starts it will start from that section so let's keyframe the end position let's move over two seconds this time and we'll drag the end position all the way up to 100 f9 and this time we'll make it start a little bit slowly and end a little bit slowly as well so we get this nice easing in and out motion fantastic okay so that is the setup for our graphics section done okay so if you ignore all of this extra stuff that's happening on top here excuse me all this extra stuff that's happening on top the inner portion of this animation is finished so now the next section is just adding these boxes over the top and affecting how they piece together our graphics section so whilst this looks fairly complicated it's actually pretty simple it's the same technique applied several times so let's go inside our graphics composition here and believe it or not we're actually going to pre-compose everything once again so we'll select everything here we'll choose pre-compose and we'll just call this graphics main and now we have our main composition inside of which has our graphics composition inside of which has our graphics main composition inside of which has all of our work so we want to be on graphics main this section here if we go back up one we are in the graphics composition we are looking at graphics main okay i'm going to draw a new shape on top let's just give it no fill and a red stroke so i'll bring up my color palette once more grab red and again my color palette's just in a web page on the other other screen and i'll draw myself a box over the center of our graphics pane and you can center that quite easily with the align tab just pop it in the middle of the composition and then drag it down until it's visually centered which looks about right and let's thicken up this border to about eight pixels it's a bit chunky let's make it six okay great on that same layer we're going to choose our rectangle tool once again let's draw if we zoom in on the same layer with the shape layer selected a square over the edge of this corner then if we twirl down this rectangle two and we choose stroke one we can reduce that stroke width to zero here which gets rid of it and we can add a fill you see here fill one has already got a fill but it doesn't actually compute so if you delete that fill and on rectangle two just choose add fill again that will actually fill it in correctly just a little quirk where we created it because it didn't have a fill before and let's choose white now let's twirl this down so it's less distracting and we'll select rectangle 2 directly not the shape layer but rectangle 2 and just press ctrl d to duplicate it and we'll position one of these at each corner and we'll also position one in the middle of each line as well let's do the corners first and this is making it look like a fake version of these controls here let's pop you in the middle the reason i do it this way around is so that once i've chosen where the middle is on this rectangle which is about there i can duplicate that shape and just drag it down directly so i don't have to worry about aligning these two because they're already aligned same thing if i go back to rectangle five for example duplicate that i can drag it down find where i think the middle is roughly duplicate it again and then just oops i did the whole layer there so you have to be careful and duplicate it again there we go and move it across and i know that it's at the right vertical height now the reason we did it this way is that now i can adjust and scale this entire layer by itself those boxes look a little bit chunky but i think i'll leave i'll leave them for now doesn't that too much great so now we have our controller which we're going to call controller i'm going to take another rectangle and i'm going to select my graphics main layer and i'm going to draw a mask that aligns with the red line here like so okay bam now we have a mask over our graphics main layer and a controller on top that we're going to use to scale it first thing i'm going to do is duplicate my graphics main layer delete the mask on the bottom one and just hide that so we've got a raw copy that we're not editing okay so now we have a raw copy and we have our duplicate copy as well let's take our duplicate graphics main and we'll just call this one and we'll call this one c for controller and i will pick whip layer 1 to layer 1c and this means that when i move layer 1c the rest of it moves with it and you can probably see where we're going with this now let's take let's find when we want this to appear so if we go back to our graphics main sorry our main layer not graphics main layer we can see when we want this to start appearing so we've got our shapes coming in let's have it appear about there let's check with that aligns with our original footage so when does it appear in the main composition yeah just after the red comes up we've got our shapes appearing here so that works perfect for us let's go to our main layer find when the red starts to appear in motion which is about there and then under our graphics layer we know this is the point where we'd like it to start okay so i'm going to just choose scale rotation and position and we're going to scale and rotate first of all let's make that take one second again we're not going to rotate a full time round we'll just go back to our first keyframe and choose maybe negative 45 yeah and the scale can be zero so if we keyframe those and give them a bit of easing we can then offset our rotation by selecting these keyframes and pressing alt shift and right so now it scales up rotates into position and then at the last section we want to move it into position so we can do that by actually offsetting it in the first place so let's just have this one move down now i've done those backwards accidentally so i'll just select those keyframes keyframe assistant time reverse and i'll just flip them around let's press f9 on those there give them a bit of easing and we want it to sort of move into position last so that's already at the right position there it's gonna scale up move across rotate into position fantastic you'll notice that our animation here um on our graphics mains layers has already completed because that animation is already appearing here taking uh sorry excuse me that animation is already taking place here early in the composition before our animation is actually scaling and rotating into place that's really easy you just drag your layers here like so okay make sense so let's clip this layer like so and now we know we've got it starting in the right place or at least one of these starting in the right place where we have our last keyframe let's just duplicate 1 and 1c pop them on top and now we'll have 2 and 1 c2 i will remove this mask to give us our full layer back i'll remove all keyframes from this layer giving us a blank layer again and that means that i can now unlink two from there so that when i move oops excuse me when i move our controller layer it is no longer directly affecting the layer i can use that to scale its position down or scale scale its position down scale its scale down and just move it into a separate position say here for example okay i can then re-link this layer create another mask on two and repeat those steps okay we're gonna go back to here where the layer starts we'll keyframe these i'll do them all at once so we know that rotation let's have this one be 45 degrees as opposed to negative 45 degrees let's have the scale be zero and let's have the position just be up and left a bit so now it's gonna move into position diagonally hit f9 on all of those give ourselves some easing and then we can just offset them so we want scale first obviously then rotation then position now we have two of these taking place and of course if you want to you can offset these so they don't appear all at once okay that looks pretty good now this is moving much slower than the original but that's fine because we can speed it all up at the end this just all comes into place a lot slower you can see these ones just whip in a bit more if we watch that and that's just because they're not a full second long but save that to the end and we will just alt drag these to make them much quicker and slower okay so i'm going to go through now and create enough of these shapes that we cover pretty much everything the whole of this section but i will leave little gaps in the middle just to show you uh how i did it exactly the same as the um example so to keep things simple i will not offset them for the moment i will leave them all at the right time i'll time that through the rest and we'll come out on the other [Music] side [Music] okay so there you have it i did something a little bit different with the last one making it um go from horizontal landscape to vertical or portrait which i think looks pretty good um so the last step once you've done all these is to first of all just sequence them slightly so we're going to collapse all these down and since there's only four layers i'll just sequence them manually probably a bit easier i'll just go over one two three frames do the same here one two three frames and do the same here to three frames so now we have these layers coming in in sequence that looks much nicer i'm going to select all these layers and press u and we'll just speed this up a little bit so we'll grab all of these maybe we want it to be finished by about here and we'll hover over the last frame hold alt and drag and this will compress your keyframes whilst maintaining all the animation and that looks much nicer there we go so the last step is once all these pieces are in place you're going to want to remember that original layer that we had before that we hid okay you're just going to turn that layer back on choose opacity and take say 15 frames to go from opacity nil to one pass opacity 100 so that just fades that in in the background and at the same time just take all of these layers here grab their opacity and put it down to zero and then you have the boxes fading now you could if you wanted to offset this a little bit so that the pieces finish fading in and then the boxes fade away and again if you wanted to you could offset your um fading out keyframes as well so one two three like so let's do one two three again and the final ones one two three here so now we have uh our keyframes fading out sequence which looks a little bit nicer let's save go back up to our main composition and see what that looks like clicking here fantastic and we all have our pieces coming together like so that looks pretty good if i do say so myself okay i think i'm fairly happy with that let's just check it against the original see if there's anything that we missed yes we missed the wiggling of the letters inside our graphics symbol there very easy to do so let's do that as our final step let's go inside our graphics main layer so we have all of our wiggling letters here and we'll press p to bring up the position keyframe in all of these okay now we could apply a wiggle expression to each one of these layers but it means that whenever we want to change it or if we want to change it we'd have to come back through and change all of those individual layers so instead what i think i'm going to do is create an adjustment layer with a wiggle and using sliders and then we'll apply that to all of these layers underneath it so inside our graphics main composition we'll press ctrl alt y to create a new adjustment layer and we'll just name that wiggle and on our adjustment layer we are going to put something called a slider in fact we're going to put two slider controls so we'll have first slider control and we'll have second slider control i'll name the first one frequency and i'll name the second one intensity although it doesn't really matter what you name these okay right so we're going to go to our first letter here g and alt click the position keyframe then we have to set some variables okay so we're going to say i want the amount of times per second that it wiggles to be my frequency slider value and i want the amount that it wiggles you know the amount of pixels to be my intensity slider value okay so inside here we're just going to say uh frequency so new variable frequency equals and then we will pick whip to this slider then we'll press semicolon to close the line of text then we'll say new variable intensity equals it looks like we can't call it intensity so let's call it inten is that enough yes so because that was blue there i think that means that it's uh int is already like a reserved name so we shouldn't call it int we'll call it intent instead then we will drag to that slider and press semicolon then we will choose wiggle open brackets frequency comma intensity close parentheses and that gets rid of our warning okay so what we have now is the wiggle this layer is going to wiggle based on frequency and intensity which at the moment are zero which means we should have no wiggle very good if we crank these suckers up we're gonna have a crazy wiggle whoa look at that wiggle okay that's probably a bit much so what i want is it to gradually decrease in wiggle over time so at the start let's keyframe let's move over say to two seconds so that all of our letters are in place and let's keyframe again here let's say six times a second i want it to wiggle three pixels and that's what our wiggle's going to end up like at the start however i want it to just be massive let's say like six times or 12 times a second let's wiggle 30 pixels and then it will go crazy and decrease because we have our values decreasing over time it's going crazy look at all that crazy wiggle and then it's reducing down to basically no wiggle here okay let's just ease that out a little bit super amount of wiggle down to no wiggle perfect now what we need to do is just copy and paste this into our other position keyframes so that should work now on the r which it does indeed so it comes in to settle and then they start wiggling which is great so we'll just copy and paste that into all the others now yes there is some copy and pasting which obviously takes a little time but what this means is if i change any of those keyframes on the wiggle adjustment layer it will change them for all of them here so all of our letters are wiggling if i were to for example make this go quicker it would happen much quicker like so and i think that's a little bit too intense so we will just reduce it down to say five times a second two pixels oops i did that on both accidentally there because i had all those selected so we would just make sure that we didn't balls that up and we'll go just to this keyframe and we'll choose five times a second two pixels and our final things are a bit less crazy there we go perfect now let's look at that in our main composition and see what we've made perfecto that looks pretty dang good to me well there we have it the second to last tutorial in this series and we've got some nice motion going on now in the next and final episode we'll be doing two things we'll be creating some small amounts of 3d text as well as this kind of bloated after effects logo blue which looks really cool some 3d rotation text here like so and we'll be adding all this glorious texture on top as well so thank you very much for joining me i know this was a bit of a longer tutorial but hopefully you still enjoyed it and i will see you next time for the final episode of intro to motion design or intro emotion graphics 2021 and another episode of shifter massive thank yous to my level 2 and above members wn 62 ian costello lone wolf 16 katma rob v jason karate mp di mazuev volo firs melem hoover two steps to chill josh colon ursula for manska the sorcerer lally lulelo x andrew hammond jana kerry jk digital creations jobs animations paul german sergio de gallagher ranika m norene abdullah and barbara resner you guys are absolutely lovely if you'd like to become a member of the tiptup zone and become a tip titan yourself click that join button below [Music] remember to subscribe for more tips tricks and tutorials thanks for watching

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Length: 31min 11sec (1871 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 08 2021