From the course: After Effects CC 2021: Character Animation Essential Training
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Add and adjust keys - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CC 2021: Character Animation Essential Training
Add and adjust keys
- [Tutor] It should come as no surprise that the most crucial components in animation is key frames. without them, we wouldn't be able to tell After Effects that a property has a certain value at a certain point in time. And that's all animation really is. It's just changing values over time. In this movie, we'll see how to add and adjust key frames in a number of ways to get our animation timing as needed. In this example, two co-workers are in disagreement over some paperwork, and you can see the supervisor is clearly frustrated. So let's add some fuel to this fire, and animate some body language with her right hand resting on her hips to express some disappointment. Let's double click on layer five to step into this pre-comp. And we can come up here to animation, reveal properties with key frames and you can see that I've already got some rotation key frames for several layers. Let's add some animation here to these red…
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