Liquid Logo Animation in After Effects - After Effects Tutorial - No Third Party Plugins

hey everyone welcome back to my another After Effects tutorial in this tutorial we are going to create this [Music] [Music] [Music] so let's get started open After Effects and create a new composition we will call it liquid logo animation as always i am using 1920 by 1080 resolution at 30 frames per seconds let's create a new solid and rename it liquid lines I am making it same as the comp size and using a black color for it you are free to choose any color you want now go to the tools and select pen tool make sure your liquid line layer is selected and then start drawing a path using the pen tool please note your lines will follow this path so make sure you are making it as you want to animate your lines in my case I am using this shape you can adjust the curves of your paths by dragging the handles of each Anchor Point and make these curves round as possible now if you select your layer and press M you can actually see your mask path option here we are going to use this mask path to animate our line go to the effects and presets and search for CC particle system second this is an inbuilt plugin of After Effects you don't need to download it from anywhere double click on this to apply it on the lair this effect creates nice-looking particles as the same as other third party plugins create let's adjust a few settings to make it look like a line first of all change birth rate to 50 and then change longevity to 0.6 open this physics tab and change the velocity to zero also change animation type to the vortex let's change the gravity to zero also and it will make it round now we are going to animate it according to this path make sure you are at the first frame select this mask path and press ctrl + C to copy it open effect then CC particle system now open this producer tab and select the position press ctrl + V to paste the mask path on it now if you play this you can actually see it is moving as our path was created but you cannot adjust the position again after pasting it because it has converted the path into the keyframes that's why our particles are moving now select all these keyframes and press f9 to easy ease them open graph editor and change the curve to something like this I am using this graph shape so that my animation stop quickly as compared to the starting let's hide this mask path and are just few more settings open particles and change particle type to the faded sphere change def size to 0 to create a tail of it change size variation to 100% and opacity map to constant also increase the max opacity to 100% now I am going to change the particle colors click on any of this and change the color you want I am using a blue color to match with my logo color change the birth color to the same blue as well perfect here is our animation until now let's move to the second step go to the effects and the presets and search for the simple choker double-click on it to apply on to the layer now increase the choke mat value to something 40 and then you will get the same result if you play this you can actually see it is a single line now there are no particles inside it and also it has a flat look you can control the length of this line by increasing the longevity as well as you can change the few more settings to make it more attractive our first animation is complete now let's disappear this line I am using this point where the line will disappear to do this add a keyframe on the birthrate go to around 10 frames forward and change the birthrate value to zero now the line will disappear but now we need the timing to be matched select both keyframes and drag them to the left so they will be inside these animation keyframes perfect this is what we need Ram preview this and see if you are happy with it this looks good to me let's make another copy of it to make some extra details select your layer and press ctrl + D to make a duplicate I am dragging the bottom layer to the right so that they have different animation timing perfect let's change the color of this line I am using a white color but you are free to choose your own logo colors cool let's increase the choke mat value to around 70 so the line will be thinner than the blue one if you play this you will get this nice-looking line with a white tail attached to it let's replicate these both layers to make our seem more dynamic select both layers and press ctrl + D to make a duplicate right click on it and then go to the transform and select flip horizontal it will rotate your layers horizontally this looks nice but I don't like it they are just looking mirror image of each other so again right click on these layers go to the transform and this time select flip vertical it looks more dynamic now let's change a few settings of them to make them look different from each other I am going to work with the bottom layer select your layer I am changing choker to 75 this time and also increasing velocity to 0.2 let's decrease the inherit velocity to negative 45 this is the minimal change but that looks different now let's play this animation but before press Enter trim out the playback area so that you check the main part only Ram preview this and now we have these nice-looking lines let's move to the next step now we are creating splash ring when it's tool line glides with each other I am using this time location to make the ring make sure to unselect your layer and then go to the shape tool here we are going to use this ellipse tool please note my fill is set to none for this shape and my stroke is set to a solid color I'm using a white color for the ring but you are free to choose any one also I am using my stroke size 250 pixels hold down the shift key on your keyboard and start dragging your mouse to create a perfect round stroke circle now press V to select the move tool and align it to the center perfect now we are going to animate this ring but before let's rename it to burst please excuse the spelling open this ellipse option and then this stroke one here you will see this stroke width option we are going to animate it go to the perfect frame to add this then scroll to the transform and open it change scale value to zero and then add a keyframe on it go to around 15 frames forward and then change the scale value to 100% scroll back to the stroke width and then add a keyframe on it go to around 15 frames forward and then change the value to zero if you play it you can see the burst animation but it is not good enough press you to open keyframes only and align these stroke width keyframes to the left so it will match with the scaled timing it looks good now select both keyframes and press f9 to easy ease them so the burst will fade out smoothly Ram preview it and check the timing in my case the burst animation is a bit faster if you hold down the Alt key on your keyboard and drag your selected frames to the left you can actually make it slower without placing keyframes individually it looks much better to me now go to the effects and presets and search for roughen edges effects apply this effect on the burst layer and adjust few settings change the border to 30 and change edge sharpness to 10 if you play this animation you can see it is reacting just like a smoke perfect let's make another copy of it select your layer and press ctrl + D to make a duplicate let's call it burst blue I am going to drag this file to the left so it will follow the first burst animation also change its color to the same blue color of the line I am following the same colors as my logo have cool let's place this layer below the first layer and adjust the timing according to your need I want my white bursts to stay a bit longer than the blue one so select the burst layer and press you to open keyframes select these both end keyframes and drag them to the right to make the burst animation slower cool play this and now your animation will look like this please note you are free to use your own paths to animate it I am just showing you the way destiny is yours our animation is complete here we are moving to the next step let's add our logo you are free to add your text also process is the same for both place your logo on the top of all layers and then precompose it rename it as logo and make sure to check their move all attributes into the new composition right now my logo is too big let's scale it down a little perfect I want my logo to be this size now let's start animating our logo at the time of these first start so let's do this go to the frame where your burst starts appearing go to the effects and presets and search for zoom wobbling preset add this preset to the logo layer and your logo will start animating right away cool let's adjust the animation timing to make it better press you to open keyframes select any keyframe and open the graph editor change the curve to something like this and then drag it to the right to make it slower switch back to your time aligned and your animation is complete add any background of your choice and you are done thanks for watching this tutorial have a good day you [Music]

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Length: 14min 12sec (852 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 18 2017