After Effects Guru: Animating Infographics

Course details

Learn how to animate infographics with Adobe After Effects! Many infographic elements begin life in applications like Illustrator, Photoshop, or PowerPoint. But these assets can be flat and boring; animation is what brings them to life. In this course, After Effects guru Ian Robinson covers animating charts and graphs with shape layers, layer masks, and stroke and text animators. He also shows how to use expressions to link animation between different graphic elements, build dynamic camera moves, and create some animated 3D infographics with CINEMA 4D Lite. To finish things off, he'll look at some third-party tools such as Cinema Spice Charts & Graphs for After Effects and aescripts, which help speed up some of the techniques you learned earlier in the course.

Learning objectives
Preparing Illustrator and Photoshop charts and graphs for animation
Separating flattened infographics into layers for animation
Converting Illustrator files into shape layers for more detailed animation
Animating and linking strokes with other graphic elements for more visual impact
Converting 2D charts and graphs to 3D with CINEMA 4D Lite
Timing animation to narration
Using third-party tools to speed up the infographics workflow

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know before taking the class
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Preparing Files for Animation

04 - Understanding the Chart tools in Adobe Illustrator
05 - Preparing charts & graphs from Illustrator for animation
06 - Cutting up flattened infographics into layers with Photoshop

2. Animating Single Infographic Elements with After Effects

07 - Importing & converting Illustrator charts to shape layers for animation
08 - Importing & converting Photoshop files for animation
09 - Animating line graphs
10 - Animating bar graphs
11 - Animating pie charts
12 - Timing animation to audio

3. Fine-Tuning Animation for Greater Impact

13 - Creating numbers that count
14 - Linking graphic animations together with expressions
15 - Linking changing numbers with animated elements
16 - Creating dynamic moves with overshoot animation
17 - Camera animation techniques to isolate specific information
18 - Animating a sequence of infographic elements with cameras

4. Creating 3D Infographics with CINEMA 4D Lite

19 - Creating & texturing 3D line graphs from Illustrator files
20 - Modeling 3D line graphs
21 - Animating 3D line graphs with CINEMA 4D Lite
22 - Creating & texturing 3D pie charts from Illustrator files
23 - Animating 3D pie charts with CINEMA 4D Lite

5. Creating Faster with Third-Party Tools

24 - Creating & animating charts in After Effects with Cinema Spice - Charts & graphs
25 - Creating & animating charts and graphs with aescripts - AEInfoGraphics
26 - Creating animated charts & graphs with aescripts - Infocharts Creator
27 - Creating animated charts & graphs with aescripts - Easy Pie Chart
28 - Creating faster animation with aescripts - MotionMonkey

Conclusion

29 - Conclusion