After Effects Guru: Animating Logos

Combine the powers of Photoshop, After Effects, and Illustrator to make polished logo animations for yourself and your clients.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• What you should know before watching this course

1. Optimizing Logos for Video

• Defining preferred file formats
• Synchronizing colors across the Adobe Creative Suite
• Resizing bitmap logos in Photoshop
• Resizing for speed with vectors

2. Animating the Citrus Logo

• Optimizing layers for animation in After Effects
• Repeating animation with the Keyframe Assistant
• Animating with colors
• Stylizing with texture
• Finalizing the reveal

3. Animating Type Logos

• Figuring out which fonts have been used
• Creating animation without the font
• Multi-element animation techniques
• Building and saving transitional elements

4. Finishing Quickly

• Formatting animated logo bugs
• Delivering animation with transparency

Conclusion

• Wrapping up