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Animating logos: Global systems

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Animating logos: Global systems

- Few things are more important to your corporate identity than your company logo or mark. Animating your logo can be a really effective way of presenting your brand. We're going to take a look at the logo for my imaginary company, Global Systems. I'll show it to you in the preview panel. The mark itself is good, and quite strong I think. But it really has an impact when animated. Let's take a look at how this was set up. First, we'll check out the timing panel. This'll tell us what order things are really animating in. First, we have some boxes that are actually going to move to reveal the white line that appears to grow. Then, each letter of the word "Global" comes in, followed by the word "Systems", and then finally, the logo is animated. Now, let's put it together. I'm gonna turn to the second page of this file, and I've put the layers panel here because we'll be using that a lot during this exercise. I've also made a special background layer that changes the background to gray…

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