Animating Logos With After Effects

Master Motion Design and Animation techniques while working on fun creative projects!

What you'll learn

Getting confident in using After Effects for motion design and animation

Creating eye-catching logo animations

Produce portfolio-ready animations that you can use to market yourself

Character and mascot animation techniques

Kinetic typography animation workflow

Essential motion graphics techniques

How to come up with ideas for a logo animation project

How to use Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects in a seamless professional motion design workflow

How to work with Keyframes, Shapes and Transitions

Requirements

Basic knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects is useful but not necessary

An active Creative Cloud subscription

No experience in animation or motion design is required

Description

Are you a Graphic Designer planning to get into Motion Design and Animation? Logo animations  are the perfect way to start your Adobe After Effects journey. This course is for anyone looking to improve their After Effects skills and learn how to create beautiful logo animations that they can sell to their clients. A good custom logo animation is priced between $1,000 and $9,000. We teamed up with Ina Gavazova to make this course, who is an experienced Motion Design and Animation expert working for clients such as Nissan, Yale and Unicef. Her passion and energy for animation and motion graphics is infectious, join her if you want to have a great time while learning!You will be guided through all the essential motion design and animation techniques in Adobe After Effects including Keyframes, Shapes and Transitions while working on exciting real-life logo animation projects:Mascot/Character animation - a whimsical llama head with a cute little bell on her neck.Kinetic typography animation - a dynamic text reveal full of character and energy.Morphing icons animation - a modern minimalist animation showcasing many of the 12 principles of animation.So why should you take this course? Here are a few reasons in the words of our students:"I'm a graphic designer, and I've been telling myself I'm too busy to learn but motion design has always been really exciting to me and something I wanted to get into. After Effects can seem complicated at times and it can frustrate me when I look up tutorials and they're hard to follow, but you guys are excellent teachers!"  Stephen"In my previous job, I did learn a bit of After Effects but then ended up rarely using it so I forgot almost everything. Now that I am looking for a new job I want to be more marketable, round out my skills, add more value and just make really cool stuff. This course came at the perfect time!" Jeremy"I've been looking for so long for a course like this. I've tried a few others but they always just glossed over how to do actually do things. In this course, Ina really goes into detail, explains everything and encourages you to experiment with everything." SusanIt's your turn to get started in Motion Design and master Adobe After Effects! Enroll to this course now, you won't regret it! Have fun learning!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Why learn logo animations?

Section 2: Llama project

Lecture 3 Preparing your files and Importing them into AE

Lecture 4 Organize your After Effects project

Lecture 5 Animating the Bell

Lecture 6 Animating the Collar

Lecture 7 Llama’s Head and Face Animation

Lecture 8 Eye and Eyelash animation

Lecture 9 Pupil animation

Lecture 10 Hair Animation and Polishing Details

Lecture 11 Smoothing the llama animation

Lecture 12 Text animation

Lecture 13 Llama looking down Animation

Lecture 14 Llama Tongue animation

Lecture 15 Llama Loop out

Lecture 16 Text and collar loop out

Lecture 17 Finished Llama Project Files

Section 3: Morphing project

Lecture 18 Drawing the first icon

Lecture 19 Animating the first icon

Lecture 20 Come up with ideas on how to morph icons

Lecture 21 Morphing Icon 1 to Icon 2

Lecture 22 Animating Icon 2 (Part 1)

Lecture 23 Animating Icon 2 (Part 2)

Lecture 24 Adding motion effects to Icon 2

Lecture 25 Coming up with ideas for Icon 3

Lecture 26 Animating Icon 3 (Part 1)

Lecture 27 Animating Icon 3 (Part 2)

Lecture 28 Continuing the animation

Lecture 29 Coming up with ideas and designing the final icon

Lecture 30 Morphing Icon 3 to the final icon

Lecture 31 Logo reveal

Lecture 32 Finishing the logo animation

Lecture 33 Finished Morphing Project Files

Section 4: Typography project

Lecture 34 Organizing the file in After Effects

Lecture 35 Animating letter K (Part 1)

Lecture 36 Animating letter K (Part 2)

Lecture 37 Adding motion effects to letter K

Lecture 38 Animating letter A

Lecture 39 Animating letter S

Lecture 40 Animating letter H

Lecture 41 Animating letter U

Lecture 42 Finishing the animation

Lecture 43 Finished Typographic Project Files

Section 5: Final Thoughts

Lecture 44 How to export your work?

Lecture 45 Coming up with logo animation ideas

Lecture 46 Conclusion

Anyone who is interested to learn an in-demand skill (logo animation projects are priced between $1,000-$9,000),Graphic Designers looking to expand their skillset and offer logo animations as part of their branding services,Anyone interested to get into Motion Design or Animation,Anyone planning to master Adobe After Effects while working on fun creative projects,Anyone who is planning to add eye-catching animation projects to their creative portfolio