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Understanding spatial interpolation

Understanding spatial interpolation - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training

Understanding spatial interpolation

In this chapter, we are going to continue take things up a notch by talking about some more advanced principles of animation and specifically in this chapter, we are going to use a big word, quite often, and that word is interpolation. That sounds very scary, but it's actually not. Interpolation is the way that After Effects gets from one point to the next. So, we have his top arrow here and if we select it and press U, the only keyframe that show are these two position keyframes. It starts here and it ends there. And so far all we have talked about is the straightforward linear interpolation that After Effects comes with right out the box. We start with one keyframe. We go to the next keyframe in the most straightforward way possible. And I want to show you another layer here, the bottom arrow. Now notice here with this layer, when we press U and we show the keyframes, there are only two keyframes here and it does the same thing. It starts in the same place and it ends in the same…

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