After Effects Guru: Animating Logos
1h 22mIntermediate2013-11-12
Authors
Ian Robinson
Motion Graphics Designer and Educator
Course details
This episode of After Effects Guru combines the powers of Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and Illustrator to help you make polished logo animations for your clients. Learn how to use the Keyframe Assistant to build animations with multiple repeating elements, and animate with color, starting with grayscale values you'll use to generate different hues. Ian Robinson also provides some project-saving advice for what happens when you don't have access to the full-res version of a logo. Last, you'll learn about the best formats for outputting animated logo bugs and animations that contain transparency.
Learning objectives
Optimizing bitmap and vector logos
Repeating animation with the Keyframe Assistant
Animating with colors
Animating type logos
Building and saving transitional elements
Rendering your animation
Learning objectives
Optimizing bitmap and vector logos
Repeating animation with the Keyframe Assistant
Animating with colors
Animating type logos
Building and saving transitional elements
Rendering your animation
Skills covered
Motion GraphicsAfter EffectsRenderingMotion Graphics and VFXVisualization and Real-TimeLimited SeriesAdobeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and Illustration
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - Using the exercise files
- 03 - What you should know before watching this course
1. Optimizing Logos for Video
- 04 - Defining preferred file formats
- 05 - Synchronizing colors across the Adobe Creative Suite
- 06 - Resizing bitmap logos in Photoshop
- 07 - Resizing for speed with vectors
2. Animating the Citrus Logo
- 08 - Optimizing layers for animation in After Effects
- 09 - Repeating animation with the Keyframe Assistant
- 10 - Animating with colors
- 11 - Stylizing with texture
- 12 - Finalizing the reveal
3. Animating Type Logos
- 13 - Figuring out which fonts have been used
- 14 - Creating animation without the font
- 15 - Multi-element animation techniques
- 16 - Building and saving transitional elements
4. Finishing Quickly
- 17 - Formatting animated logo bugs
- 18 - Delivering animation with transparency
Conclusion
- 19 - Wrapping up