Level Up Your Typography: Creating Animated Stickers in After Effects

 Level Up Your Typography: Creating Animated Stickers in After Effects

Are you looking to add something more to your Typographic work, capture the attention of your audience on social media or simply diversify your skills and portfolio as a digital creator? With simple animation techniques, you can elevate your compositions, expand on your narration, and give character to Typography.

My name is Manon Louart, and I am a graphic designer, motion designer and illustrator based in France. In this class, I’ll be showing you different ways to animate Typography using After Effects.

In this class, you'll learn how to:

• Create writing animations
• Create Text echo animations
• Animate Text Distortions in 3 ways
• Animate Dust and Grain Textures
• Apply these techniques to secondary animated elements
• Take advantage of Expressions to speed up your workflow
• Export for the web

I’ll first introduce each notion along with a short animation exercise, and once you’re confident with your new skills we’ll move on to the main project.

I’ll take you through my entire process from sketching out ideas and choosing typefaces, to animating them and exporting your creation.

The final class project will be a 4 second looping video of Animated Typographic Stickers.

Who is this class for?

This class is perfect for creators with a basic knowledge of After Effects, Intermediate Motion Designers looking for new tricks, or even Graphic Designers wanting to quickly add visual interest to their typographic creations.

I can’t wait to see what you all come up with. Don’t forget to post your final projects in the Class Project Section!

Let’s get started!

• Introduction
• Class Overview
• WARM UP
• Text Path Animation
• Shape Layer Animation
• Trim Paths
• Echo
• Polar Coordinates
• CC Twister
• Fractal Noise
• Expressions
• THE PROJECT
• Sketching things out
• Setting up the Project
• Animating with Text Paths
• Animating with Shape Layers
• Animating with CC Twister
• Animating with Trim Paths
• Animating with Echo
• Animating with Polar Coordinates
• Final Touches
• Exporting & Conclusion