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Working with complex keyframe animations

Working with complex keyframe animations - After Effects Tutorial

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Working with complex keyframe animations

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- After Effects has some incredible tools for working with keyframes. You have the ability to change keyframe interpolation, copy and paste keyframes, work with keyframe graphs, and even add expressions. Let's take a look at all of these features in action, and then, in later movies, see some plugins that will assist us with the process of keyframing. When it comes to keyframes, After Effects has a ton of options available for you to manipulate them. So, if we take a look here at this animation in the chapter 5_1 composition, I'm just going to hit the space bar, we've got a very linear-based animation. So these keyframes are the default keyframes that are applied once you manipulate a layer's parameters. And you can see here that these layers are simply staggered, with basically position movement on the X and Y and Z axis happening to them. One thing I can do right away, to help with the believability of this animation, is actually, turn on motion blur for this composition. And then…

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