From the course: Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Creating Animated Logos
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Alternative logo animation techniques in After Effects, design 1
From the course: Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Creating Animated Logos
Alternative logo animation techniques in After Effects, design 1
- Let's move on and explore some additional animation techniques. I'm going to show you another animated logo, and this time we'll also combine some footage and a bit of randomness. Before we start, let's go ahead and capture our work so far. So make sure that you've saved your work to date. If you need to follow along, you'll also find in the folder for this particular exercise, that I've created a snapshot that you can open. Alright, I'm going to take this first logo animation and drag this onto the folder and call this "logo one." This way it's easy to find if I need it in the future. And, let's go ahead and close that for now. Now, we'll import the next logo. So I'll choose file, import file. Navigate to the correct folder, in this case 3.4, and select the vector logo with a single click. Choose to import this as a composition and again, use the option to retain layer size if you want things to scale from the center of each object. That works quite well. I'll go ahead and click…
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Import a logo with layers into After Effects5m 16s
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Animating logo layers in After Effects12m 1s
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Refining the logo animation in After Effects15m 54s
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Alternative logo animation techniques in After Effects, design 19m 54s
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Alternative logo animation techniques in After Effects, design 210m 13s
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Creating shape layers in After Effects3m 59s
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Extruding a logo in 3D3m 7s
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Using an environment layer for reflections11m 12s
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Rendering a logo animation8m 8s
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Importing an animated logo to an NLE with transparency: Straight vs. premultiplied alpha channels5m 40s
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Saving the logo with the Essential Graphics panel12m 8s
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