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Building animation with MotionMonkey - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Guru: Keyframe Assistants
Building animation with MotionMonkey
- Now I know we've talked about a lot of Monkeys, LayerMonkey and TypeMonkey, but MotionMonkey is its own Monkey in and of itself. It gives you the ability to create animation relatively easily and quickly when you have a graphic that's already built on the scene. If the elements have a specific place and you just need to reveal those elements into the scene, check out MotionMonkey. It's the perfect place to start. Anytime you've already laid out your graphics in something like Photoshop or even After Effects, and all you really want to do is just animate the appearance of those elements into that layout, you want to go ahead and use MotionMonkey. So to show you what I mean, here in the project panel, let's double click to Import. Navigate to your exercise files. Mine's on the desktop. In the Sources folder, I want you to choose background.psd and under Import As, choose Composition, Retain Layer Sizes. Go ahead and click OK and then just double click on the comp. So here you can see…
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Installing third-party assistant scripts2m 59s
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Understanding LayerMonkey and TypeMonkey6m 14s
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Building animation with TypeMonkey10m 28s
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Building custom animations with LayerMonkey9m
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Building animation with MotionMonkey3m 53s
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Combining LayerMonkey and MotionMonkey10m 51s
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Exploring Ease and Wizz4m 45s
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Positioning layers with PlaneSpace4m 23s
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Repeating graphics with Trapcode Echospace7m 14s
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