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After Effects Tips and Techniques: Shapes, Text Masks, and Path Effects

3hIntermediate2015-02-03

Authors

Eran Stern

Teacher and Motion Designer, 20+ years of post-production experience

Course details

Get the most out of your motion graphics workflow with After Effects Tips and Techniques, the series that introduces new shortcuts, hidden gems, and overlooked effects to experienced After Effects artists. In this course you'll learn how to make the most out of shapes, masks, text, and path effects: some of the most flexible and design-friendly elements of the software. Eran Stern shows how to scale these elements, add effects to path outlines, extrude artwork in 3D space, and incorporate numbers and expressions in your effects.

Learning objectives
Creating a repeating animation
Converting artwork or text to shapes
Animating conversions
Making Photoshop text editable
Making 3D text quickly with expressions
Creating a unique mograph look with the Mask Feather tool
HUD animation
Adding numbers to path effects

Skills covered

Motion GraphicsAfter EffectsRenderingMotion Graphics and VFXVisualization and Real-TimeAdobeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and IllustrationDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Using the exercise files

1. Shape It Up

03 - Fixing quality issues
04 - Adding dashes to lines
05 - Designing a sunburst background animation
06 - Creating a repeating timer animation
07 - Auto-animating shape layers
08 - Creating 3D extruded shapes

2. Text Tricks

09 - Make Photoshop text editable
10 - Controlling word spacing
11 - Paragraph kerning and punctuation
12 - Auto-animating text with the Wiggly Selector

3. Under the Mask

13 - Converting masks to shapes
14 - Creating transitions using mask expansion
15 - Achieving a unique look with the Mask Feather tool

4. Path Effects

16 - Creating cutout animations using Auto-trace
17 - Auto-animating text with the Scribble effect
18 - Copying paths from Illustrator
19 - Animating strokes with the Stroke and Vegas effects
20 - Morphing between masks
21 - Creating an ethereal morph effect

Conclusion

22 - Next steps