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Intro to Animation Composer

Intro to Animation Composer

From the course: After Effects Breakdowns: Social Tech Infographics

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Intro to Animation Composer

- If you work with After Effects, you know that to create smooth animations that represents the basic principles of animation, such as squash and stretch, anticipation, slow in and slow out, exaggeration, and few more, you need to work quite hard. You can do it by mastering the graph editor and modifying those graphs, which can be counter-intuitive in some cases. Or you can try to work with expressions, which are useful, but can be tedious, hard to learn, and sometimes even slow to render. If this happened to you, let me introduce you to Animation Composer from MisterHorse.tv. This is a free plugin that consists of a huge library of presets. You can get to the basic ones for free and, if you like, you can buy more. But even with the basic package, this plugin can save you hours of work and it was used heavily in this project. I'll devote two movies to it and in this first movie I'll show you the basics of how you can use it with the same Illustrator document that we've prepared in the…

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