Animating Illustrator Logos in After Effects
In this After Effects tutorial we'll learn a variety of techniques to create appealing logo animations. Software required: After Effects CS4 for project files.
What you'll learn
In this After Effects tutorial we'll learn a variety of techniques to create appealing logo animations. Taking a logo or image and animating it is a common task. We'll begin the tutorial by importing a logo built in illustrator and organize our layers into compositions. We'll then learn some animation techniques to take what would be boring motion and give it some life. We'll then learn how to accurately gauge perspective and how to place the anchor point. Throughout the project we will create animation presets that will save us time on repetitive tasks. We'll learn techniques to reveal and grow elements from simple mask expansions to complex path strokes and mask animation. Software required: After Effects CS4 for project files.
Table of contents
- Organizing Our Project and Working with Vector Images 8m
- Animating the Text Entrance Using a Moving Hold 7m
- Animating the Arcade Group to Have Arcing Motion 8m
- Finding the Correct Anchor Point Position Using Perspective 6m
- Using Animation Presets to Quickly Animate Multiple Elements 8m
- Animating Other Elements Using Our Animation Preset 10m
- Using Masking and Expressions to Keep the Tv Antennas Moving 9m
- Changing the Default Mask Color in the User Preferences File 9m
- Fixing the Timing and Animating the Background 6m
- Animating the Ink Splots Using the Anchor Point and Scale 9m
- Using Masks and Motion Blur to Add the Large Paint Splats 9m
- Animating a Realistic Paint Hit 4m
- Using Our Mask Animation Techniques to Animate Growth 5m
- Using a Stroke Effect to Grow Our Plant Elements 5m
- Creating a Multi-grow Effect with Layering and Many Masks 9m
- Growing a Complex Multi-limb Object Using Strokes 9m
- Revealing an Object That Crosses Over Itself Using Strokes and Masks 8m
- Combining Techniques to Grow a Multi-limb Self-crossing Element 9m
- Using Strokes and Paths to Grow a Complex Object 9m
- Growing the Main Limb and Leaves of the Ornate Element 8m
- Adding Additional Growth Layers to the Ornate Element 7m
- Finishing the Growing of the Ornate Elements Limbs 5m
- Animating the Top Circles to Move Together 6m
- Timing the Growing Layers to Work with the Entire Logo 10m
About the author
Along with creating and recording training, he also used to manage the support team and work closely with the production development team at Digital-Tutors, now a Pluralsight company. He began his career working freelance and quickly realized that he wanted to find a company where he could use his talents to help people succeed in the CG industry. Chris has likely watched more Pluralsight creative training than anyone on the planet, and its evidenced by his Einstein-sized brain and encyclopedic... more