![]() ![]() Here I want the ball to come from off the top of the screen and bounce. Now, when animating you really need to plan out what you want to do before you start, at least a basic idea. ![]() You can animate your project without this step of course, but it does make organizing things a little easier. So, we can set out time cursor to 4 seconds and press N on the keyboard and we create our work area from the start to that four second point. The bouncing ball is actually only going to be a small sequences of about 4 seconds, which we can then just repeat (loop) if necessary. With motion graphics, there are often lots of small elements of movement and so to make things easier to follow we can make our work area for each element smaller. So now we have our ball, ready to animate. ![]() Repeating the same on the 2nd text layer gives us too words with an extrusion depth of 20. Then it is just case of adjusting the size to suit, we are ultimately going to create a bouncing ball animation so it needs to be quite a bit smaller. ![]() For an ellipse, this means it instantly becomes a circle. This also has the benefit of making the anchor point for the object the center of the frame, which can, depending on you animation idea, be useful.Īnother trick when working with shapes is that if you want a perfect circle, you can start with the ellipse, and go to the size property of the object, and alt click the chain icon for constrain proportions, and it automatically makes the height and width the same. I chose an ellipse here, you can select the tool and then click in the composition and drag out a shape if you want, however a quick shortcut is to simply double click the tool icon when it is set to your desired shape, and it will automatically create a shape the full size of the composition and centered. You can also use the Q shortcut to do this. The shape tool itself is on the top menu, the default is normally a square, but click and hold it and you can select from the other shapes available. Then you will have this as the starting point for your project.įor this Motion Graphic I'm going to be creating a ball and then animating it. Open up a new composition, use whatever resolution settings you want to work in, and then create a background layer for the project using Layer>New>Solid, you want to choose a nice bright color for this so the animation all stands out. How to Create Motion Graphics in After Effects ![]()
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