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Bounce and overshoot

Bounce and overshoot - After Effects Tutorial

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Bounce and overshoot

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- [Instructor] A very common method for creating a more lifelike and playful animation is to use bounce and overshoot. And in this project, we're going to make the star and the words New Mexico kind of overshoot their current size and then resolve to where they are in this scene just to make the animation look a little more playful. So if I scrub through the timeline here, you can see I just have a wipe of the map. So I'll move my current time indicator until that wipe is completed, right around frame 15, and we'll start by creating an animation for the star. So select layer two, which is called shape layer one, and press S to open the scale. I'll go ahead and change the scale from 82% down to zero, and add a keyframe right there. Then let's move 10 frames down the timeline and change the scale back up to its original setting of 82%. So this is a linear animation, nothing very exciting. But I want the star to actually get…

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