Easy Kinetic Type Using Newton | After Effects Tutorial

Easy Kinetic Type Using Newton | After Effects Tutorial

The Video Shop 37.7K subscribers
19.6K views · 2025-05-05 Motion Design
In this video I use Newton 4 to create a physics based kinetic type animation.

This is a recreation of this video which was posted recently on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AfterEffects/comments/1kb8ihk/how/

I actually started animating it using Physim by Plugin Play, but currently that doesn’t support scale keyframes in simulations. So I reached out to Val at Motion Boutique and used Newton.

Since I’d already built and started working on the scene, I pushed on even though they dropped an explainer on their process last week: https://youtu.be/aQvW5NALQco

I use the same settings, but also discuss the process of editing the final animation.

This isn’t sponsored by Newton, but they provided me with a free license to test out the plugin.

If you have thoughts or experiences with any of the plugins below, do let me know as I’m keen to explore them in future videos.

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► Physics Now! V2: https://crunchycreatives.com/products/physicsnow/

► Physim: https://app.pluginplay.app/tool/physim

► Newton 4: https://aescripts.com/newton/

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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:34 - Converting Text to Shape Layers
00:01:23 - Enabling Expressions for Kinematic Element
00:01:34 - Newton Settings
00:01:57 - Speed of Simulation
00:02:35 - Original Reference
00:02:58 - Editing
00:05:44 - Rendering Proxies
00:06:18 - Assembling Final Animation
00:08:58 - Finished Timeline in After Effects
00:10:12 - Final Animation

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