The 5 Most Popular After Effects Motion Graphic Edits

in the world of After Effects there seems to be no limit to what you can create however a great way to master motion design is by constantly upgrading your arsenal of techniques so let's get ready to harness the power of some of the most popular edits that you can use today all right we'll start off the first edit by jumping into the water and creating liquid Motion Graphics so grab your swimsuit and select the rectangle tool create a shape that will cover up your entire title or graphic then animate the position of that shape to animate from underneath the title now you can then set the track mat of the shape to your title or you know whatever object you're doing this with but for a cool example if you're working with a title uh you may then duplicate that layer and set it to a stroke title uh to create a cool container from here we can then quickly apply the turbulent displace effect from distort and easily you can just increase the amount to 100 and ALT click the stopwatch for evolution enter time Aster 250 or any value and this will give you a liquid feel to your graphic and if you like you can also apply the rough and edges effect uh which will add some subtle ripples to your shape now that everything is set up you may duplicate the shape several times offset the layers in time and then change their colors to create this multicolor animation and one thing I like to do is adjust the timing of the last key frames so they all stop before filling up the entire graphic and that looks great but as a bonus tip you can also apply the CC bubbles effect to a white solid layer and set the track mat to your title or graphic to add in some subtle Bubbles and now you can learn how to swim in After Effects you know there's a saying you should always date an After Effects guy because we don't break Hearts we break mards and sometimes Hearts to break and shatter anything like a criminal add the shatter effect to your title or graphic then set that view to rendered and the pattern to Glass this will give you a starter shatter effect and it looks okay to make this more appealing increase the repetitions and feel free to lower the Extrusion depth to Zero from here I would go to physics mess around these settings but my favorites are setting the gravity to zero and increasing the mass variance now we can go to the force and adjust the radius and strength to remove any pieces that are dangling around the edges now this is looking good but what about only applying this to specific areas well you can select a handy pen tool and create mask around the areas you want to shatter and you can create as many mask as you like uh but you may want to set the mask To None while you do this but set them back to add when you're finished then duplicate the layer and set all mask to subtract and be sure to delete the shatter effect on the bottom layer and now you become death the destroyer of graphics before we move on to our next technique be sure to pick up our free motion duck templates for After Effects and Premiere Pro and if you find yourself needing to save precious time on all your projects we have over 35,000 templates to help you produce amazing work with the link below however if you're ready to make a Transformers movie on a budget next up we'll go through how to morph logos objects and shapes into well other logos objects and shapes so obviously you can work with regular shapes here in After Effects however if you have a logo please ask your client for the vector file or The Illustrated version of the logo because with Vector files you have the power to rightclick those layers you want to morph go to create and select create shapes from vector layer and this will turn your logos into shape layers with all that original detail from here you can select all the shape layers and hit U twice on your fancy LED keyboard and then just go ahead and count the number of paths each layer has and choose the shape layer that has the most paths then you can add key frames for every path and color in what I'll call the master shape layer uh and then move forward in your timeline and go to the path in the other shape layer copy it and paste it to one of the paths in your master shape layer and this will give you a partial morph so then you'll need to continue to copy and paste every path into your master shape layer however you'll also likely want to change the colors as well so go ahead and do that and lastly you can turn on motion blur and offset the key frames to make Michael Bay proud wait all right there we are being able to make anything 3D is an absolute must know in 2024 thankfully it's very easy to pull off and you have a few options at your disposal so for example you can make titles or logos 3D and if you want to make a logo 3D once again please get your hands on the vector file then right click the layer go to create and select create shapes from vector layer I know Deja Vu but now whether you have a title layer or a shape layer you can make the layer 3D and set the renderer here to Cinema 4D then you can go into the Extrusion depth and increase this number and you can also mess around with the other geometry options to get a feel for what uh you can do but now we officially have a 3D object uh and now you can animate any of the transform parameters but for this I'm just going to animate the Z position and the Y rotation to create this very simple flip but it's beautiful now there's a few things we can do for shading for starters if you like you can create a new light and either use a Point light or an ambient light but just flip through the options to get a feel for it and boom that creates you know noticeable depth now if you don't want to use a light or in addition to using a light you can go into the shape layer and add a new group and then place all the current groups into that brand new spanking group then select the only group remaining and give it a first place trophy but in all seriousness go to either side or back and select color and then you can change the color to whatever you like and now you have the option to fully customize your 3D object all right finally the last motion graphic technique is all about creating a revolving 360° title graphic to do this start with a large composition with a width over 4,000 and a height of 1080 uh then type out your title or create enough Graphics to lay out from one side uh to the other and when you're ready you can place this composition into your main regular composition and apply the CC cylinder effect from perspective and simply all you really need to do is adjust a rotation values and animate the rotation y by adding time Aster 20 and that will beautifully rotate this in 360° I would also adjust the ambient under shading to help with the brightness and if you want to place objects in the middle like I have uh set the renderer to outside and then duplicate the layer and set the render to inside from here you then can place the object in between the layers and that's it subscribe if you want to be the best and always be creating

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Length: 7min 16sec (436 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 01 2024