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Creating animation with presets

Creating animation with presets

So, now that we got the layers where we want them, it is time to add some animation. Now if you scrub the Current Time Indicator - also abbreviated as the CTI - you'll see that I've already animated some of these elements for you, but I'm going to show you how to do all these things throughout this training series. But for now, we're going to animate this little flower here. Now in the professional world, most of the time when you animate, you're going to animate things manually. But After Effects has another way that you can animate things by using something called an Animation Preset. In most professional projects in After Effects, you really wanted to just sink your teeth in and get a really detailed, perfected animation, a real great final product. But a lot of times, you might be doing some kind of spec work where you just kind of want to get a general idea. Animation Presets, even after you've mastered After Effects, are great for that. So, here is what we're going to do. Let's…

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