Keyframe Animation Masterclass - Motion Graphics 101

ladies and gentlemen boys and girls welcome back my name is not Ian sands this of course has learned how to edit self and if you haven't noticed there's a tiny little global pandemic happening outside which means that a lot of people are inside and probably wanting to learn how to edit stuff which means that my SEO for this channel that I made years ago is actually gonna pay off soon I think I don't know we're not gonna talk about that well we are going to talk about today all right this is very exciting very exciting stuff the one thing I want to talk to you about during a global pandemic is absolutely without a doubt keyframes this video is going to be a key frame master class water keyframes how do they work how do I utilize them what are the different types how do I work with curves all the different things that you've been up late at night thinking about keyframe wise we're gonna have sir all those questions today I will be working in Adobe After Effects you guys may be working in some other program but if that program has keyframes in it than the knowledge and what we're gonna be talking about today will apply to you as well all right before we get started there are two things I want to run by you guys number one in the video description below you will find a link to join my learn how to edit step discord this is a discord server where editors and editors alike can come in and talk about key frames and whatever else I'll post tutorials in there before they go up on YouTube you can suggest tutorials for me to do it's a great little community that we've built links in the video description below and number two wash your damn hands and stay the inside.you psychopaths there is some crazy happening out there and everybody needs to stay safe everybody needs to stay indoors and everybody needs to sit down at their computer open up Adobe After Effects sit back relax wash your hands and let's just talk about keyframes After Effects is open your hands are washed and we're diving right in and we're gonna talk about what our keyframes if you guys see all of my sequence titles over here this is kind of the list and okay anyway what our keyframes keyframes our inputs you can add two animatable properties in whatever program you're using you can assign them a value and that value will change over time and today we're gonna work with the fantastic four of keyframes I just coined that term not really it's amazing anyway it is position rotation scale and opacity those are the four that we're gonna be working with today but keyframes will go to any animatable property in any program that you are using but we're gonna use these to demonstrate the master class okay so keyframes how do they work they work exactly like getting directions in your favorite mapping application you have a starting point you have an ending destination you can also make stops in between if you want to but sometimes that just complicates things and adds a lot more time to your journey than expected but when it comes down to it it is just a starting and an ending point and if I click on my layer here I can hit P on my keyboard for position s for scale R for rotation and T or transparency for opacity and those will kind of bring up those values in after-effects whatever software program you're using I'm sure you'll be able to find these as well now specifically in After Effects what I would recommend doing is coming right up here to edit and going to keyboard shortcuts and type in scale key and you're gonna click right here under shortcut and you're gonna set it to something simpler than the After Effects default so what I would recommend doing is alt s for scale alt R for rotation alt p for position and alt T for opacity so you're just using alt is your modifier and not shift alt which I believe is the After Effects default to confusing just one key and the letter that's way simpler so once you've gone ahead and set your key frames cuz you're smart you're gonna come down here and you're gonna set a keyframe I just have a red square and after effects nothing really crazy going down here I'm going to hit alt s for scale and you will see that it makes this little stopwatch icon blue it also adds a keyframe over here on the left hand side and it adds a keyframe over here on my timeline now there are three different indicators when you have keyframes happening and you're gonna pay attention to all three of these because they can get confusing now keyframes work over time so if I were to come right down here to one second and increase the scale you will see that it puts another keyframe down on my timeline and now that scale will happen in between each keyframe so that is how it works you have your start destination which is over here you have your end destination which is right here and the time in between is the traveling I'm really gonna be leaning on this map metaphor I just want everybody to understand that right now all right so now that we've done a very basic keyframe animation you should know that there are three different types of keyframes there is a linear keyframe a bezzie a keyframe and a hold keyframe and to demonstrate all three of these we're just going to come right over here to the keyframe types and I'm gonna play this sequence check it out everybody linear over here on the left-hand side moving very robotic Lee very kind of uniformly across all the different parameters Vesey a is a lot smoother of a movement it is moving a lot more organically and it has some life to it and hold keyframe basically is just the equivalent of stop motion keyframes you can use these sparingly if you're gonna do something like that but it basically just hits one position clicks over to the next and then goes back up to its original position nothing really crazy going on with hold keyframes we're really gonna be focusing a lot on Bezier keyframes today because that is the keyframe type that's gonna give you the most dynamic and fluid animation movement in whatever program you're using trust me now Ian what does bezzie a actually mean funny that you asked I have the definition right here a Bezier curve is a parametric curve using computer graphics and related fields the curve which is related to the bernstein polynomial is named after pierre bézier who used it in the 1960s for designing curves on the bodywork of Renault cars other uses include the design of computer fonts and animation alright so Bezier basically it means curve that's all you have to think about bezzie a equals curve now sometimes you'll hear the words thrown out easy ease automatic bezzie a continuous Bezier don't worry about that as ei equals curve and it's how you manipulate the Bezier curve that's gonna give you the most fluid and organic feeling animations whenever you're working on something like this now Before we jump into Bezier curves I just want to give you guys my two cents on how to work with keyframes in general alright what I like to do is I like to start at the end so if I know that I want this Square to land exactly where it is now after one second I'm going to set my keyframes for what I want to animate so in this case scale rotation and position all to P s and R on the keyboard to set all three of those keyframes and now I'm gonna work backwards and the reason that I like to work backwards is cuz I always like to know where it's gonna end up and how we get there is kind of the mystery right so maybe I want this to rotate a bunch scale up from nothing and it is gonna come from the left hand side of the screen and now if I play this there you go it's doing exactly what I wanted to do and it's landing exactly where I want it to land and the whole benefit of working backwards is so that you know what the end result is gonna be which is it landing right here and how we get there is now maneuverable instead of it coming from the left I'm gonna move this over to the right and now it's doing the exact same thing but coming from a different direction but is landing in the same place every time so my advice to you with working with keyframes in whatever software is start from the end and work your way backwards because where it lands and where your animation finishes is almost more important than how it gets there and now the moment you've been waiting for [Music] mastering the animation curve now before we get to the curves which I know everybody is excited about we first have to understand basic 2d and 3d movement great do you remember this grid from middle school this stupid XY grid well you know what it's actually helpful X is going to be your horizontal movement Y is going to be your vertical movement in 2d space when you add a third dimension which is 3d you're gonna be working with Z space which is going to be how close or how far away the object is from your theoretical camera right so my cameras here and now I'm moving in z space look at this my chair is really squeaky I don't even care this is great this is good stuff now in more standard traditional motion graphics work you are going to be working in 2d space you're gonna be taking a flat graphic and animating it in 2d right which is x and y or if you're working in 3d it adds a slightly more complex angle to it but that is XY and Z and all three of these things work independently from each other Wow yeah really useful information in thank you for sharing but I just want to learn about Bezier curves ok great let's move on to the Bezier curve section of this video but first we're gonna go over the mantra for easy ease or fuzzy a ease out of the gate and into the finish line that is how you should remember ease-in and ease-out ease out of the gate into the finish line and to demonstrate this I have a nice little example on the left we have linear in the middle we have ease out and on the right we have ease in now easing out will take a long time at the beginning and then go faster at the end while easing in will go very fast at the beginning and ease into the ending I know it's a little bit confusing but as long as you guys remember ease out of the gate and into the finish line that is how this works and to demonstrate this one step further I've made curves so this guy's right here is linear animation alright nothing really exciting happening here and now I'm first going to demonstrate a traditional s-curve which is this guy right here in curve you can see that it's kind of easing out just slightly it is ramping up and then easing in just slightly so easing in and out will create a general s-curve here where you are lagging a little bit on the animation start and easing into the finish line right here at the top of it now we're gonna look at just an ease in curve which is here we are starting the animation very fast and then easing into the finish line right here at the end and it is indicated by a much longer ending portion up here on this side of the curve versus a very short starting animation curve down here now ease out which is going to be in green has a very long time on the animation in portion of it and it is going very fast to finish we are easing out of the gates and in to the finish line all right just remember that mantra and you will never go wrong this looks like some weird Italian design that I'm not gonna get into right now but you understand my point I think I hope do you understand the point I'm hoping you understand the point we are easing out of the gate and we are using into the finish line by the way all three of these examples are the exact same keyframes down here they are all the exact same amount of time but the animation is very very different so I'm gonna let this roll for just a minute and I just want you to take in the beauty of this example Wow brilliant all right now we're gonna do a real world example of this guys check this out I know that I want my Square to end exactly where it is right now and we're just gonna work with position so I can show you guys exactly what I was talking about throughout this whole video okay just set a position keyframe gonna go back to the beginning and just move this guy over to the left-hand side of the screen and now we have a nice boring linear animation moving from left to right now in After Effects I can come over here and right click on position and go to separate dimensions which is going to give me independent control over the X and the y position since I'm only using the X position here that's the only curve that we're gonna focus on so I'm gonna click on the x position hit f9 on my keyboard to enable the Bezier curve and then come right up here to this little graph right here and you can kind of see the s-curve right in there I bet you didn't know what that was until today's video fantastic click on that graph editor and it will show you the S curve that we have created from bezzie those keyframes now what do I want to happen here I want this to ease into the final part of the animation so what I'm gonna do is pull my starting keyframe all the way over to the left on the Bezier handle and I'm going to ease in to the finish line and this is what an ease in curve looks like you can see it's starting very fast now and it is easing into the finish line and is going nice and slow towards the end of that animation conversely I can do the opposite of that where I pulled the ending keyframe all the way over and then this all the way over here which is now an ease out curve we are easing out of the gate so now it's gonna take a very long time to get there and it will snap in towards the end so depending on what you want to do with your animation will depend on the curb that you're using if you're really boring and you don't want to go too crazy with ease in or ease out you can just make yourself a standard s-curve and then you'll kind of get the best of both worlds but whatever program you're using whatever you're doing animation was manipulating your curve is going to be your key to success in making fluid organic animations that have a little bit of life to them instead of the very boring linear keyframe model which like please stop using linear keyframes wash your hands stay inside stop using linear keyframes if I was willing to put money on it I bet you didn't think I'd be this passionate about keyframes by the end of this video well guess what I love three things in this world my wife coffee and keyframes I know a lot of information to process during this video and I appreciate you sticking with me all the way to the end there are a couple key takeaways from this keyframe video that I want you to know number one set keyboard shortcuts for your keyframes so you're not having to push a bunch of different buttons at once just to set one lousy keyframe number to start from the end and then go backwards or forwards depending on which direction you're moving but anyways you're gonna want to start from where your animation is supposed to end and then you animate kind of around it if you seen the movie memento it's a normal movie but it's all played backwards but somehow it still makes sense forwards as they start from the end and then work backwards and last but not least number three master the curve bezzie a equals curve you're gonna ease out of the gate and into the finish line that will give you that nice s-curve then you're gonna manipulate the curve depending on what style of animation you want your motion graphics I want to now take the time to thank you so much for watching this video thank you for staying inside thank you for washing your hands and thank you for subscribing to the channel and also checking out the last video that you missed we do them here weekly at learn how to edit stuff I'm gonna try to livestream during this porn teen a little bit more subscribe check out the last video discord linked in the video description and I will see you next time

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Length: 13min 31sec (811 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 29 2020