today guys we're gonna be working in adobe after effects and i'm gonna show you how to
actually animate a logo in the exact way you can see on screen now i've actually enlisted the help
of someone to help me with these after effects tutorials because i am quite a noob when it comes
to this software but if you do want to see more after effects tutorials heading into the future
do please let me know so firstly we want to have our logo as a vector of course and i predominantly
use adobe illustrator and it's actually a good idea to have all of the individual parts of the
logo broken up so we can work with them in after effects really easily and so if you have text you
want to outline the text and then just you know break up each individual letter from your texts
and of course an easy way to do that is to work in the layers panel and it's going to really help
if you leave lines like the square here as a stroke object and not outlined or expanded
so you can import your projects by either coming up to file an import and there's actually the
keyboard shortcut or alternatively you simply can just double click this box here but when you
do import your project it's important to actually list the import as composition retain layer sizes
and that's just going to import the design in individual layers like we mentioned earlier
that's effectively created a composition and we need to double click that composition to enter
into it oh and a quick reminder to actually change the duration of your composition
come up to composition and then also composition settings and you can actually
change the duration here and we're going to be working on a five second render today
one interesting workflow in after effects is to actually get rid of
the data files linking back to illustrator because this can actually confuse things
so instead we're going to actually change the objects to shapes within after effects
so if we come down to here we can press ctrl a and that's going to highlight all of these illustrator
data objects down here and then we're going to right click and create shapes from vector layers
what that has done is effectively change all of the illustrator objects into paths within after
effects if you just click here and drag down a tiny bit so we can rearrange things like so
and then we can just click and drag to highlight all of the illustrator objects and then just
remove them so now we're working with shapes completely within after effects and to prove
this if you zoom in here on the o it's actually a shape and we can edit it like so in after effects
like in adobe illustrator it can be annoying when you have background
layers that just move around when you click them by accident so what we can
do is we can lock that background layer here as you would in any adobe software
and that's now locked down nicely
in today's animation we're not going to actually animate individual letters because for this
animation i'm working on it might not look too great so we're going to group things together
so highlight all of the sat right click and then go to pre-compose and we're going
to give it a relevant name like sat so we can quickly identify what is in that group
and i'm going to do the same thing again for the bottom roi now with the sat and the roi
if we click this box here this is going to be continuous rasterize and we actually have a
bounding box appearing now switched off you can see the complete area which is not going to be
too intuitive and if we actually turn that off as well when we scale things it's not
vectorized to infinite as you would with you know adobe illustrator with it turned off we have that
kind of fuzzy pixelated look that you would expect in photoshop we're going to start by
animating the sat in today's video and so to start doing that i'm going to move to two seconds in my
timeline which is where most of the animation is going to start to end if that makes sense
and so i highlight both of the layers i want to animate this being the two layers of text
and then press p on your keyboard p for peter because both layers are highlighted and when we
click the stopwatch icon it's actually going to affect both layers at the same time and at the
two second mark this is where i want the sats and the ori to finish in this position here anything
before that is going to be the animation so i'm now going to drag them back to the beginning of
the timeline and if i drag the sat in the auri outwards you will see how things animate back
to that starting point at two seconds and that is pretty linear and pretty boring as you can see so
what i'm going to do is i'm going to highlight all of the keyframes and then press f9 on the keyboard
and then come up here to the graph editor if you do see this however you need to make sure you are
in the speed graph so make sure you've got that checked and again highlight all of the keyframes
and then i'm going to bring the arms inwards to the center and as you can see when we preview
the animation now it kind of isn't a linear steady progress it's got some kind of character to it now
we're now going to create a matte for the sat and the ori
text so you need to make any color rectangle you want and drag it over the stroked rectangle
we don't want it any larger or any smaller than the stroked rectangle
and then we're going to name this mattes
i'm then going to pick with a bit to the original rectangle outline and then
as you can see when i move things they are in unison
that's how pick whip works it's kind of linking them together
now i'm going to hide the matte because you'll see when we go to the effects preset window and
set mats when i actually move things it's kind of knocked out
so the mat is acting like a kind of a mask and revealing the animation whenever it comes into
that space and you simply copy that onto the ori and we get the same effect for that text too
simply click the layer that you want to copy press command
or ctrl c and then paste it onto the layer with command or ctrl v
we're now going to animate the square and so in the drop down of the square
press add and then trim pass once you do select trim pass this window will come up
and we're gonna go back to that two second mark and you will notice that the stopwatch says
end and then drag it right back to the beginning again and of course we've got another very generic
kind of animation that's just filling in the stroke from zero seconds up to two seconds
and then for this square animation highlight all of the frames again right click and go down to
easy ease or we can do the f9 on the keyboard again and also then come into
this section and do what we did before but with the square
there are different ways to do this but this is one easy and a very quick way to be doing this
as you can see the preview is looking pretty neat already
and if i drop down a square again you can see where there's an offset option
here click this one at the start and then at the end click another keyframe and then just make it
do one iteration as in one times one x and do the same thing again using the f9 or coming up
to the graph here and that's just going to make the stroke move along as it's doing animation
and now we're going to rotate the actual rectangle box as it animates so at a start
add a keyframe then move to two seconds and then add a rotation of 180 degrees
and again you've got that generic boring kind of steady animated sequence and as we did before
highlight all of the keyframes with f9 and then edit things again to make it more interesting
there are plugins for this kind of stuff but this is how you do
it manually and it's always good to know of course
we're now going to tidy things up before we move on to next parts and we're going to group
all of the layers apart from the background layer
so click hold down shift and then click to highlight everything and then right click
and hit pre compose we're going to add some flashy different color effects to our animation
this is all about adding more style in this section and so to do this firstly unlock the
background click on the logo top layer which is our animation come over here and type in fill
if you double click that it's going to default to red but we can then edit the color here so
i'm going to change it to white from the default red and i want to add a fill onto both of the
two layers and you need to make sure it's the same color as it currently is and you will soon see why
so you basically need to add a fill effect to each layer so you can animate them properly add
fills to both layers that you want animating and color them to their current color this is
your starting point and then scrub to a frame later and change the colors to the alternative
color this will give you the flash then copy and paste the first frame to one frame after
and then go back to the original we're then going to set a keyframe for both
of these in the drop down and you do that by clicking like so and then if we nudge
over one frame we can then reverse the colors with this arrow icon
so we're then going to just simply change around the black to the white and the white to the black
and then we can actually copy the keyframe and it will make a little flash like so
and i'm actually going to duplicate this flash twice
and you can do that by command c and then command v or control c and control
v
you can actually drag out the keyframes like so to increase the amount of time spent on the flash
just having three keyframes for a flash would only mean it will show for one frame if you
add another flash frame and then spread it out it will last longer and again i'm
just duplicating the flash over to the right here you most likely do a lot of
playing around with your flashes until you feel like it fits your animation properly
we're now going to change the scale of the logo and it's going to be starting at around 20
larger and then ending up in this size position now
but first we're going to tidy up the layers here so press ctrl a to select everything and then
press u on your keyboard and voila it collapses everything so it keeps things just nice and neat
so click on the logo layer because that's what we want to scale
press s on the keyboard and that's going to bring up the scale property and then press the stopwatch
here at the beginning and then press on the two second mark when everything ends in our animation
and then we go back to the start and press 120 in the scale
as the animation plays out the logo kind of scales down a tiny bit it just adds more
intrigue you know to the design and of course like we've done before highlight all layers
and then come into a keyframe assistant and easy's and bringing out those arms to the center
but the flashes are not in line with each other which is pretty important
to get right and i'm going to bring them back a bit as well
and the scale down isn't too obvious so i'm going to change that to 175 percent
and i do feel like these keyframes aren't in
time properly so select them all and then press shift alt
and then press the left right button and that's going to shift them 10 keyframes to left to right
now that's looking pretty good as i said but we can add an extra little bit on
to the end of this animation we're going to actually add in a line stroke that's going to
lie over the original stroke so we're going to duplicate this layer
of the actual square and that's just command or control d
and on the duplication we're going to get rid of these properties
and we're going to pick whip this one here so they're kind of connected as we
said earlier with the matte so essentially we now have two layers doing the same thing
and you won't even be able to tell the difference that there are two different layers
we're going to rename this one small and we're gonna go into it and you can resize it up here
but to go even further we can come into the you know the smaller one here and then come
into the stroke drop down menu within it and then see in the dashes section we can add the dashes
if you press it once we can't actually see the gap so you need to press it twice to
bring up the gap option as well and then we can control the distance between each dash
like in illustrator it's the same kind of principle when working with strict
dashes
and of course again come up here to change the stroke weight and as before press ctrl a and
then also u to collapse everything in your layers window and there we have the animation and we're
going to go back to the main composition and here we go it's all come together pretty well and yeah
this was a first after effects design tutorial on my channel but if you'd like to see some more
broken down tutorials on tips or different parts of after effects and how to get into after effects
do let me know down below but of course until next time guys design your future today peace