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Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC

By : David Dodds
Book Image

Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC

By: David Dodds

Overview of this book

If you’re thinking seriously about making and publishing your videos with professional editing and animation, look no further! Adobe After Effects is a popular tool among video editors and YouTubers to enhance their videos and bring them to life by implementing visual effects and motion graphics. This book will take you right from the basics through to the advanced techniques in Adobe After Effects CC 2018. You will start by setting up your editing environment to learn and improve techniques to sharpen your video editing skills. Furthermore, you will work with basic and advanced special effects to create, modify, and optimize motion graphics in your videos. Lastly, you will not only learn how to create 2.5D animations, but also get to grips with using Cinema 4D Lite to build and animate complete 3D scenes. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned how to package a video efficiently with the help of the projects covered.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC
Contributors
Preface
Assessment
Other Book You May Enjoy
Index

Using shape layers to create transitions and background graphics


In this shape layer project, we will duplicate and reuse a lot of elements. We will change the color of the shapes and offset the key frames for complex animated designs. This project will get your feet wet with shape layers; however, there are more advanced features with shape layers that we won't cover. Please feel free to explore after I have introduced the shape layer concept.

We are building a looping lyric video for a fictional children's movie. These types of videos are used on social media to generate excitement about a song or a movie. Understanding how to animate typography in a kinetic way is important in the field of motion graphics. Moving typography helps convey your message in a more entertaining way than static type. Let's get started with shape layers.

Creating shape 1

The interface for shape layers can be found in two areas: at the top of the interface in the tool panel, and also in the timeline:

  1. Go to Layer ...