After Effects Scripts & Tips: 1 Animation Techniques

Learn tricks that make working in After Effects easier and more fun. Explore free scripts you can install for a faster workflow and learn about animation, design theory, and more.

Introduction

• Course intro: Up your animation game, quick and simple
• Using this course

1. Awesome Free Scripts

• Installing and using scripts in after effects
• Animation Composer: Plugin
• Animation Composer: Extra scripts
• Duik for better keyframing
• Scale and rotate motion paths script
• First Vertex toolkit script
• Better layer & precomp organization withtrue comp duplicator & un-precompose scripts

2. Mograph Theory in Practice

• The laws of physics and rules of animation
• Easing motion with animation patterns script
• Creating follow-through, overlap, and secondary action with Dulk
• Animating squash and stretch
• Continuous motion and overlapping action with Wiggle

3. Animation Quick Tips

• Animating fast with Motion Sketch and Smoother
• Linking animated properties with expression pickwhip
• A better scale zoom with exponential scale
• Creating camera shake

4. Common Problems and Quick Fixes

• Fixing an anchor point
• Quick timing adjustments with time-remap & duik morpher
• Working around expressions in a project

5. Quick Projects

• Quick stop motion style with Tickler
• Multi-layer animated presets with layer library
• Using the Puppet tool outside of puppets

Conclusion

• Next steps