Creating an Animated Typeface in After Effects
Offered By: Pluralsight
Course Description
Overview
Anyone wanting to create exceptional visual effects, extraordinary motion graphics, and exciting animated text will want to watch this course.
In this series of tutorials, we will learn the steps for creating an animated typeface. We learn a lot at the beginning of the course on how to take the freshly designed typeface in Illustrator, and prepare it for animation in After Effects. This is one of the most valuable parts of the course, because knowing how to properly prepare your files will save lots of time in the end. Once we move into After Effects, we use several effects that are unique to shape layers, as well as a few standard transform style animations. We learn how to animate small details of the typeface ahead of time, so that they can be quickly swapped out for the still layers to make for even faster production. While we don't animate every single letter of the alphabet together, we learn all the techniques for creating beautifully animated letters which we then place in a composition. To top it all off, we end the training by learning how to render for, then create, an animated GIF of our type. By the end of this tutorial, you will know lots of tricks for saving time as you work through animating a typeface and you'll be ready to implement these techniques the next time you need some type in motion. Software required: After Effects CC 12.2.0.52, Illustrator 17.0.0, Adobe Media Encoder 7.2.0.43, Photoshop 14.0.
In this series of tutorials, we will learn the steps for creating an animated typeface. We learn a lot at the beginning of the course on how to take the freshly designed typeface in Illustrator, and prepare it for animation in After Effects. This is one of the most valuable parts of the course, because knowing how to properly prepare your files will save lots of time in the end. Once we move into After Effects, we use several effects that are unique to shape layers, as well as a few standard transform style animations. We learn how to animate small details of the typeface ahead of time, so that they can be quickly swapped out for the still layers to make for even faster production. While we don't animate every single letter of the alphabet together, we learn all the techniques for creating beautifully animated letters which we then place in a composition. To top it all off, we end the training by learning how to render for, then create, an animated GIF of our type. By the end of this tutorial, you will know lots of tricks for saving time as you work through animating a typeface and you'll be ready to implement these techniques the next time you need some type in motion. Software required: After Effects CC 12.2.0.52, Illustrator 17.0.0, Adobe Media Encoder 7.2.0.43, Photoshop 14.0.
Syllabus
- Course Overview 1min
- Introducing After Effects 29mins
- Starting a Project and Importing Assets 18mins
- Creating Comps and Adding Assets to Comps 27mins
- Modifying and Animating Layer Transform Properties 39mins
- Working with Text 21mins
- Working with Shapes 45mins
- Introducing Video Effects 41mins
- Using Some Specialized Effects and Layer Styles 47mins
- Working in “Classic” 3D Space 45mins
- Creating Specialized Text Animations 23mins
- Exporting (Rendering) a Comp 16mins
Taught by
Jeff Sengstack
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