Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral
Philip Ebiner
Lessons
Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates
06:22 2Understand the After Effects Workspace
05:39 3Starting a New Composition
08:15 4CC 2018 Update - Starting a New Composition from Footage
01:55 5Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline
05:08 6Using the Basic After Effects Tools
10:20Create a Perfect Circle, Alignment, and Shape Colors
03:04 8Working in the Timeline
10:59 9Layer Properties
08:57 10Quiz: After Effects Basics
11Animating in After Effects
07:35 12Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations
05:17 13Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral
04:21 14Using the Graph Editor
05:32 15Challenge - Bouncing Ball
01:01 16Solution - Bouncing Ball
13:00 17Quiz: Animating with Keyframes
18Working with Solid Layers and the Ken Burns Effects
07:07 19Working with Shape Layers, Strokes, and Paths
06:24 20Adding Layer Styles like Drop Shadow, Bevel, and Gradients
03:44 21Shape Effects - Trim Path Animations, Wiggle, and Zig Zag
05:54 22Quiz: Shapes and Solid Layers
23Track Matte Animations - Make Layers Appear and Disappear
08:37 24Using Pre-Compositions to Group Layers
05:34 25Easily Reverse Complicated Animations
02:14 26Playing with Time
05:54 27Blend Modes
06:05 28Stabilize Shaky Footage
04:04 29CC 2018 Update - Previewing and Favoriting Fonts
00:46 30CC 2019 Update - Responsive Design Time
03:36 31CC 2019 Content Aware Fill
03:55 32CC 2019 Create Motion Graphic Templates
08:37 33Quiz: Important After Effects Skills
34Intro to Motion Graphics Projects
00:53 35Clean Lower Third
09:22 36Logo Reveal Animation Bumper
13:25 37Colorful Transition
16:59 38Text with Mask Path Animation
10:05 39Text Bubble Animation
13:39 40Weather App 1
16:41 41Weather App 2
08:21 42Weather App 3
06:59 43Quiz: Motion Graphics Projects
44Flat Animation Challenge
02:47 45Phil Designs his Flat Animation Scene
01:23 46Animating Fireworks with the Repeater Effect
15:02 47Removing Green Screen Background
06:46 48Adding a Background that Matches the Foreground
07:55 49Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool
06:26 50Adding Movement with the Ripple Effect
06:07 51Quiz: Flat Animation Challenge
52Intro to 3D
10:04 53Swinging 3D Text Animation
12:11 54Build Out Your 3D Composition
05:47 55Animating Our 3D Scene
07:38 56Create Stars in After Effects
05:11 57Quiz: Green Screen (Chromakeying)
58Using the Rotoscope Tool
06:55 59Cleaning Up Your Edges
07:21 60Finishing Our Rotobrush Animation
07:33 61Quiz: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool
62Easy Screen Replacement with Masks
09:56 63Replacing a Screen Version 2
13:49 64Screen Replacement with Mocha
07:13 65CC 2019 Update - Native Mocha AE Plugin
05:08 66Quiz: Rotoscoping
67Using the Puppet Pin Tool
04:33 68Animating Your Puppet Pins
03:04 69Animated Blinking Eyes
08:21 70Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds
07:10 71CC 2018 Update - Advanced Puppet Pin Tool
02:08 72Quiz: Screen Replacements
73Applying Text Animation Presets
05:59 74Create a Page Turn Effect with CC Page Turn
10:05 75Radial and Linear Wipes
03:20 76Color Correction in After Effects
03:33 77CC 2019 Update - Selective Color Adjustments
03:25 78Quiz: Puppet Tool Animations
79Motion Tracking Basics
09:51 80Tracking Text and Visual Effects to Video Clip
06:21 81Tracking Rotation and Scale
11:33 82Adding Details to Our Text
04:04 83Quiz: Motion Tracking
84Intro to Character Animations
01:31 85Design Your Character
14:32 86Rigging Your Character
02:50 87Animating Our Character
09:55 88Adding the Animated Background
09:12 89Adding Details to Character Movement
06:46 90Adding the Paper Cut Out Look
05:29 91Quiz: Character Animations
92Exporting an H264 File from After Effects
07:03 93Exporting from After Effects with a Transparent Background
04:03 94Exporting from After Effects through Adobe Media Encoder
04:40 95CC 2018 Update - Exporting an Animated GIF from Adobe Media Encoder
02:14 96Create an Animated GIF from After Effects CC 2017
07:03 97Audio Tips for After Effects
02:19 98Working with Premiere Pro
05:54 99Quiz: After Effects Workflow & Tips
100Expressions Basics
07:24 101Animate a Flickering Light with Expressions
17:35 102Quiz: Expressions
103Conclusion
00:44 104Final Quiz
Lesson Info
Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral
to make animations look better and more natural. There's a couple of things we can do in after effects. One thing I want you to do is wave your hand in front of your face right now. I know it sounds a little silly but just wave it in front of your eyes. And do you notice anything about the motion of your hand? It's really blurry. That's called motion blur. And it's just natural that things in our natural environment when they move the way our brain processes them, there's a little bit of blur. What's different in this animation is that at every single moment at every single frame our square is perfectly sharp and that's not natural when it's supposed to be moving. So you can add motion blur in after effects. And that's one of these other columns in the timeline. Is this one with these three little dots and if you hover over it it's called motion blur. And all you have to do is check that button and enable it for our entire timeline. And that's what these buttons up here do. So you see ...
this three little dots, one that's enabling motion blur. And so now you'll notice that as soon as I check that on you get a little bit of blur on the edges of this square and as I go through and scrub through you see that little blur and that's a little bit of motion blur. That makes it look a little more natural. If I make this animation even faster. So I bring all of these key frames into half a second which I can do by selecting all by clicking and dragging over and then selecting one of them and dragging them to the left. Then play through this. You get even more motion blur because the faster and animation the more motion blur you get off on. I typically like to add motion blur to most of my animations. The other thing that you can do to make your motion look more natural is playing with the speed right now between these two key frames. This square is moving and rotating and scaling up at the same speed throughout this entire animation. So from this frame to this frame it's moving at the same frame speed as from this frame to this frame. But in nature things ramp up. If you bounce a ball on the floor it starts off slow and then it will speed up and then it'll go slower as it reaches its resting point. If you start running you don't start running at your top speed, you ramp up and so to ramp up animations. What we can do is called easy ease in after effects. Let me just do that with position. So let me press P to bring up position and now I just have my key frames here to add easy ease to a key frame or to a set of key frames. Select those key frames or Just for one right click the key frame go to key frame assistant And then choose easy ease. Or you can just select them and press f. nine on your keyboard. So that's what I'll do now with that easy ease you get more of a pop to it. It's that speed ramp but it also has this sort of like pop action that I think looks pretty cool and looks a little bit more natural. If we extend it to one second it'll look a little bit better. But you'll also know that now when I extended the position to one second I didn't extend the scale or rotation to one second. So I want to do that. So what I can do to quickly bring up all the key frames for this layer is press you you on my keyboard and that brings up all the key frames. Now I can take my scale and rotation and move it to the right to one second. And if I want I can ease ease these other key frames so I can select all of these. Press F. nine or right click and choose easy ease. Now with that motion I think it looks a lot more natural and you can see it kind of slows into that final resting spot in the next lesson and we'll take it one step further using an advanced technique that I think you'll understand. You just have to dive right into it and it will help you change up the speed ramp of your easy ease
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