From the course: Getting Started in After Effects for Illustrator Users
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Introduce timing and motion to graphics
From the course: Getting Started in After Effects for Illustrator Users
Introduce timing and motion to graphics
- [Instructor] Motion graphics animation doesn't have to be complicated, especially when you're getting started. Here are some methods that require just a few clicks once you know where to start. So since there's no animation on our foreground elements, let's start by just blocking in some basic timing. I'll put my current time indicator just to one second. And I'll have the text start there by just dragging this. I can hold down Shift to snap to that point. Then I'll do the same with my swoosh. And again with the stars. If I preview this, each one's just snapping on. It's a little comical. So now I'm going to twirl down and under virtually any layer, you'll see transform controls. Most of these have to do with motion. Your anchor point, position, scale and rotation properties are down here and you can keyframe them. I'm going to keyframe the opacity. To do that, I'll actually create the first keyframe where the…
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