After Effects Guru: Animating Typography

Learn how to animate type using different methods in After Effects, from animation presets to animated cameras, and pick movement that matches the meaning of the words on screen.

Introduction

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

1. Understanding the Emotions of Animation

• Dissecting high-energy animation
• Exploring clean animation techniques
• Understanding the anatomy of accents and highlights

2. Essential Aesthetic and Technical Principles

• Choosing type for legibility
• Understanding read times and screen position
• Creating visual hierarchy for faster understanding
• Cleaning up type-heavy graphics
• Animating colors for legibility

3. Working with Text Animation Presets

• Working with existing presets (and visually browsing)
• Customizing and retiming an animation
• Building animation properties from scratch
• Refining the animation

4. Creating High-Energy Animation

• Creating controlled chaos with type animators
• Animating cameras for dynamic simulation
• Building glows, blurs, and highlights
• Building tension

5. Creating Clean, Simple, and Smooth animation

• Creating subtle accents with duplicate layers
• Creating smooth camera animation
• Enhancing with textures and CINEMA 4D Lite

6. Animating Multiple Lines of Type

• Building a detailed credit roll
• Accenting key words
• Multiline dynamic moves with cameras and type animators
• Using multiple animators and refining your animation

Conclusion

• Wrapping up