How to Animate a Logo Using the Principles of Animation in After Effects
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Follow along as I re-create a logo animation, step-by-step.
💡 Learn more about the logo animation here: https://www.meganfriesth.com/class/principlesofanimation
If you’ve ever felt that your animations weren’t quite stacking up to the level you were hoping, there’s a good chance that the missing secret sauce is the principles of animation. These principles are essential to creating engaging, lifelike animations and can be applied to all types of animation projects.
Learn more in my class, Bring a Logo to Life: Principles of Animation for Motion Designers: https://www.meganfriesth.com/class/principlesofanimation
In the class, you’ll learn how to use the principle of staging to establish rhythm, how to add anticipation to capture the viewer's attention, how to incorporate follow-through and overlapping action to create more realistic movements, and much more!
In this video:
0:22 - File Organization
1:00 - Create Logo
1:40 - Convert Text to Shapes
2:11 - Move Anchor Point
2:30 - Animate Position Property with Follow Through
4:42 - Animate Scale Property with Follow Through
8:12 - Learn More About the Principles of Animation
8:50 - Animate Path Property to Create Smears - L
11:37 - Animate Path Property to Create Smears - O
14:25 - Trim and Stagger Letters
15:40 - Animate Out with Anticipation
18:34 - Add Accents
🎓 Want to learn After Effects from the ground up? My course, After Effects, Explained walks you through 7 hands-on projects that build into an explainer animation: https://link.animationexplained.com/aeexplained12
Watch my Skillshare classes: https://www.skillshare.com/animationexplained
My website: https://www.animationexplained.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/animationexplained
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/explanimated/
💡 Learn more about the logo animation here: https://www.meganfriesth.com/class/principlesofanimation
If you’ve ever felt that your animations weren’t quite stacking up to the level you were hoping, there’s a good chance that the missing secret sauce is the principles of animation. These principles are essential to creating engaging, lifelike animations and can be applied to all types of animation projects.
Learn more in my class, Bring a Logo to Life: Principles of Animation for Motion Designers: https://www.meganfriesth.com/class/principlesofanimation
In the class, you’ll learn how to use the principle of staging to establish rhythm, how to add anticipation to capture the viewer's attention, how to incorporate follow-through and overlapping action to create more realistic movements, and much more!
In this video:
0:22 - File Organization
1:00 - Create Logo
1:40 - Convert Text to Shapes
2:11 - Move Anchor Point
2:30 - Animate Position Property with Follow Through
4:42 - Animate Scale Property with Follow Through
8:12 - Learn More About the Principles of Animation
8:50 - Animate Path Property to Create Smears - L
11:37 - Animate Path Property to Create Smears - O
14:25 - Trim and Stagger Letters
15:40 - Animate Out with Anticipation
18:34 - Add Accents
🎓 Want to learn After Effects from the ground up? My course, After Effects, Explained walks you through 7 hands-on projects that build into an explainer animation: https://link.animationexplained.com/aeexplained12
Watch my Skillshare classes: https://www.skillshare.com/animationexplained
My website: https://www.animationexplained.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/animationexplained
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/explanimated/