In this lecture we are going to create a flash animation we are going to build a simple animation together
to create an animation in After Effects you need to create a composition composition you would say is
a container that will have all your layers and the animations that you want on your letters to create
a new composition just come to this button here.
You click and you are given the composition setting and creation dialog box can overhear and give it
to me.
For example for's animation and from the play set here I would like you to choose HDTV 720 by 25.
This is pretty good for motion graphics.
It will give you a composition or later on you will make a video that is 12 80 pixel by 720 pixels.
That's what we call 720 p.
Keep the time at five seconds to have five seconds here.
Right.
Five hundred and choose your background.
You can choose any color in your background the way you want I will choose that color is OK for me.
Click OK and you have created your first composition.
Where do you start putting your text and start animating.
That is the composition panel or the composition of your work and also in your project panel you have
created your first composition and in the timeline your first animation appears.
Lets start adding some text.
You can come to the toolbar here and click on the D for tool type and come to your composition viewer
and click inside and simply start writing motion graphics.
For example
you can choose or select your selection tool and click and drag your text whatever he wanted on the
screen you have here a panel that is the character palette.
If you have it just click on it and you will see a lot of information a lot of changes you can do to
your text.
For example to make it bigger or smaller.
If you don't have the correct and palette come to your window here and you will find correct it here
and click it it will appear on this side and you can manipulate it a bit.
Now if your characters are OK in the position viewer that's very fine leave it that way.
We come here in the timeline in the timeline we see our text layer being listed.
We have our timeline indicator.
We are now positioned at 0 second and the seconds are here.
If you move your timeline indicator you will find that it's moving in time for this layer or for the
whole timeline.
If you are a liar here just roll down the small arrow here you will find text and transform this turn
down transform and find that you have very many animations that you can do in total five of them.
And these are really meant to create an animation or to start an animation.
You click on the stopwatch for what you want to be.
For example let's skip to click on the stopwatch and a keyframe is created for you so that's more Diamond
here is called Keithley a keyframe means that at this time that is zero.
But the scale of this layer.
Of course we are all in this layer here.
I'm scrolling up and down with the mouse but it's at 100.
You can't change this value.
You can click on it and type 0 and the value changes to 0.
Of course now it don't say anything because the scale is zero.
Let's move the time to 1 second.
So I take the time line indicator and move to one second.
I can come and change the value of the scale to for example 100 it will create another keyframe here
and that means at this time which is one second make the scale 100 percent.
If you click and hold your timeline indicator and scrub through your notice and you get a feel of your
animation to preview your animation you come to the preview panel.
Of course if it opens very big you can just stretch it down.
You need only this line if it doesn't show at all come to the window and you have preview here.
Just make sure it's thick and it will appear on your right side here.
So in the preview here we can just press the play button and we have our own image.
This is your first animation.
After Effects we'll go from times 0 to time five that's five seconds and we'll show your animation.
Now you have created two key frames one at zero percent for the scale and the second one is 100 percent
and either of X will do the rest.
It will take the scale from zero to 100 percent.
In between these two key frames let's create more you come to the text.
Click on text and click in your compositional viewer and you can start writing new text.
For example it's fun.
Then you can choose your selection to move it around whatever you want to put it.
If you click and drag the layer you're not just now a new layer has been created for you with the text.
It's fun if it falls down.
Also the arrow you'll find text and transform.
You can now use for example opacity.
So you position your time line indicator on the second keyframe for example you can also position it
anywhere.
Let's put it here and that keyframe the opacity to start the animation by using the stopwatch.
It keyframe is created for you.
You really don't care about the technical aspect of keyframe for now.
I will explain this very much in detail later on and put the opacity to zero.
In short that keyframe means at this time which is one second make the opacity 0 percent.
Let's go to two seconds and change the value of the opacity.
Let's make it 100.
So that keyframe means at this time.
Two seconds make opacity 100.
So after effects we'll do the interpellation or the interpretation of the animation between one second
two seconds.
If you drag your turn and indicate at the beginning and scrub through you will not your animation and
you can have a good feel of it.
What is happening here.
So you notice it's coming.
And the other one is that let's drill up and see exactly all our legs that's the two as we have created.
We can come to preview and press the play button and see our animation.
Here you are.
You created your first animation and it's important that you start doing that because there is no need
to learn every single detail in all the options that you have here to be able to create your first animation.
It's also important to get the feel of the program to see exactly what you can do and to see exactly
what makes you happy what kind of animations you want to create.
You notice here we have many transformations the same style are used here.
Click on the stopwatch first then click and change the value.
You will be able to use the position of the rotation or any other transformation that you wanted including
of the entry point.
Now what I would like you to do is go to after effects and try this.
It's important that you get familiar with the program though you don't know all the details.
It's not important.
You need to start learning about OK how does this thing work.
If you do that and you play it the next lectures and the next sections will become much easier for you
if you want to start with the big explanations then you'll get bored and you will not start this course
at all.
So this is my proposal to you I've been working on software for I don't know 30 years now.
I now know that it is very boring to go into the details before doing something you know something small.
So go ahead.
This is your chance.
Create your first animation and make sure that you are having fun.
I must warn you.
Motion graphics is about fun.
It is not serious.
You need to have fun in your heart.
You need to be able to imagine and to create something original and you need to focus and start learning
these smaller methods the small steps and the big methods also and the big techniques to create fantastic
animations.
I leave it to you.
Please go ahead.
Go to after effects and start manipulating and I will see you in the next lecture.