From the course: Motion Graphics for Social Media
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Block out the motion with keyframes - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Motion Graphics for Social Media
Block out the motion with keyframes
- [Instructor] In this movie we're going to block out the animation of this icon. First let's just clean up the project panel. So I'm going to put the layers folder, this is the Illustrator layers, we're going to put that into our source folder and we'll just move the logo animation composition into the comps folder, let's just twirl up the source folder and we can now begin to animate. So we'll just give ourselves a bit of room by bringing this up so we can see all our layers in the time line. So what we want to do is make this hexagon form the icon as we see it here. We'll have to do a little bit of scaling, rotating and things like that and so let's get to work by first thinking about how we're going to bring in this element in an interesting way. So I want to in fact scale this up by quite a bit, now I'm going to scale it up by about 600% and one of the first things you'll notice by scaling it up this much is that…
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