From the course: After Effects CC 2018: Editors and Post Essential Training
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Build a simple logo animation - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CC 2018: Editors and Post Essential Training
Build a simple logo animation
- [Instructor] As part of your duties as an editor, you'll most likely be tasked with animating a logo. In this movie, we'll take an example logo and use a few simple techniques, such as use of track mattes and a few keyframes to build up a more interesting logo reveal. Now, there's certainly no right or wrong way to do this and I highly encourage you to experiment on your own and you might find that you'll reach different and unique results using the same techniques that I'll use here. So here in this composition, I've got four layers of this H+ Sport logo and let's think about a game plan of how to use these elements to animate on. I know that the circle is the largest part of this logo, so maybe we can use that to motivate some of the other movement in this logo. But first of all, let's go ahead and think about the timing of all this, how this comes on. So at the very beginning, maybe there's nothing on the screen whatsoever and maybe by 30 frames, one second to maybe one and a…
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