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teach you how to do some sweet circling
animations in today's:
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In today's After Effects tutorial, I'm going
to teach you some simple tricks that
will help you to animate your logo in
an interesting and fun way. So rather
than wasting more time let's go ahead
and jump right in. Okay so now that we're
in After Effects I'm going to show you
right here
what we're kind of dealing with. You can
see that all these circles come in it's
kind of a parallax almost like you're
going through the warp tunnel in Willy
Wonka's factory. This is one of a million
ways that you could animate your logo
and it's pretty simple but it looks
super cool so let's go ahead and jump
right in. The first thing we're going to do
is we're going to come over here to the left
on the panel and click on create a new
composition. I'm going to go into the
presets and just click this HDV HDTV
720 29.7 whatever. So since my logo is a
pretty simple text logo then I'm going
to just go up to the text tool and type
in fortress and then space
collective I changed the leading size
and then also I changed the font size
at the bottom. Then I'm going to come
up here and hold command and double
click this so that centered correctly on
my text and then align it directly
Center to the comp. The next thing I'm
going to do is I'm going to come up here
to the ellipse tool. You can come up and you
can use the rectangle tool you can use
any of these shape tools but for this
one I'm going to use the ellipse tool
and I'm going to make the the circle by
holding shift and making it as big as
the outside right here as close as I can
get to that and hold command, double
click that up here on the anchor tool,
and then I'm going to line that so it's
directly centered. You'll see that my
circle goes beyond the borders of my actual film
I've done that on purpose and so this is
super simple. What I'm going to do is I'm
just gonna click on the shape layer,
click S on my keyboard for scale, make a
keyframe and then click it and drag it
over. What I'm going to do is I'm
gonna zoom in a little bit and click it
and drag it so it comes over eight
keyframes. Then I'm going to go back
to that first keyframe, click here on
100% and click zero and you'll see that
it zooms right in. Duplicate this a few
times let's say six times, that looks
good to me. Then if you click on all
of them by holding shift and clicking
from top to bottom, click "U",  you'll see
that you have all the keyframes right
there and what I'm gonna do is actually
I'm gonna move each one of these over so
that they're about two keyframes from
the end of the the one in front of it. So
here's the end of it, one, two, I'm gonna
do that with all of these. Now I'm going
to click on the second, fourth and sixth
one, come up here to fill, and just change
that to white for each of these and
you'll see that now I have this kind of
parallax effect. You can change that
color to whatever you want but I'm gonna
use black and white because I think it
looks kind of cool. I'm gonna click and
drag Fortress Collective to the top layer and
then drag it to right here. Click "S" for scale on this as well, create a keyframe,
and I'm going to drag that right around
here. I'm going type "0" for one keyframe,
drag that to the beginning, and then I'm
gonna click one 10 for the next one.
I'm also going to add motion blur by
clicking right here on the motion blur
effect and also right there, just on the
text layer. I just realized that my last
layer that I created is white as well as my
text and so you can do a couple of
things, you can either delete the top
layer which is what I'm gonna do, or you
could just change your your font color.
but I'm fine with 5 and I'm just
going to drag that forward a little bit.
So we'll see what this looks like.
I'll wait for a couple seconds and then
I'm going to copy and paste this over
here and then I'm going to reverse it so
it's going to be like such:
You notice that on the text that I
actually make it so comes in and goes
more, it goes past a hundred percent so
it's got a kind of a little bump right
here, and the same thing when it comes
out. That just kind of helps with that
transition smoothness. The next thing
I'm going to do is put my keyframe right
here where it hits that hundred percent
keyframe on the text, but click on this
and click shift and drag all of them and
create a keyframe for all of them right
there, and then go forward eight
keyframes (one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight) type in zero. Then
I'm going to do the exact same thing
that I did before by dragging all these
keyframes to the end and then back two
keyframes. And then for the last a little
bit I'll just click and drag so I get
all the keyframes and hold FN and click
f9 on my Mac or just click f9 on the
windows keyboard you'll see that you
have kind of a cool little parallax
circle intro effect. Super simple, super easy to
create and that's all you can do. Like I
said, you can you can do whatever you want
with any of these. If you wanted this to
be candy, like kind of a candy cane theme
then you could you can click each of
these and then change those to red. So
instead of black we're going to, you
know, have this black and red or
if you wanted a green you could really
change these colors to anything. You can
easily add different shapes and
compositions on top of this and use this
as an intro if you wanted or if you like
how it looks just with the simplicity,
then you can do that. Or you can speed it
up or make it slower or whatever you
want to do, it's entirely up to you.
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