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Bring layers to life with keyframes

Bring layers to life with keyframes - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: Learning After Effects

Bring layers to life with keyframes

Motion graphics requires precise control over transitions and eases. These subtleties of timing mimic how motion occurs in nature. Great animation apps have great keyframe controls, and After Effects is definitely among the best. Since you've already seen me create keyframes in this course, I've preset this animation with two one-second moves. One on the word MIGHTY that's masked out on top, Pacific below and let's preview it just in the area that's animating. So I'll shorten the work area. This is the way animators work. Press 0 on the numeric keypad. Wow and that is a very boring animation and you might say well what if we put on motion blur? That would help right? Well a little motion blur on Pacific not really helping nor on Mighty. So you might think okay well what if we tighten up the timing. So I'll take the second keyframe of each one and bring it in and it's still bland, it's just faster. Now of course I can add eases that will help but before I do that I'm going to select…

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