On this After Results animation tutorial, we’ll have a look at find out how to animate a bounding field reveal in Adobe After Results through the use of an instance challenge.
Inventive Title Instance Animation
First, let’s check out how the reveal animation in After Results is put collectively by taking a look at this instance animation from Envato Components. You’ll be able to obtain it within the hyperlink beneath:
Let’s simply check out what that field does. So we begin from a small, skinny line which grows into a skinny horizontal field.
After which it grows upwards whereas staying skinny.
Then from that time it grows out wider.
Create the Animation in After Results
All proper, so let’s attempt to replicate that in Adobe After Results. On this challenge, I’ll go about 2.5 seconds ahead within the timeline.
Open up the field form choices and set a keyframe for Dimension. That is going to be the ultimate width of my field.
Then transfer again down within the timeline, someplace across the 1 second mark (timing isn’t crucial at this level), and make it skinny, like within the instance video.
Transfer again a bit of bit additional within the timeline and make the field large. You additionally need to cut back the peak a bit.
For this keyframe, I am not going to make this worth zero as a result of if I make the y worth zero, we lose a part of the stroke on both finish. If this will get animated, it’s going to look unusual and can have a “bump-out” impact. So let’s go away the worth at 1.
Pull the keyframe to the very starting of the timeline.
Open up the stroke choices and create a keyframe for the Stroke Width.
Press U on the keyboard and give attention to the keyframes in these properties as a result of these are those that we have modified to date.
Transfer the keyframe for the stroke width that incorporates a worth of 20 to the center.
Then, at the start of the timeline, create a brand new Stroke Width keyframe with a worth of 0.
Now, should you preview this animation to date, you will see that we have now the muse of what makes up the field reveal animation in After Results. Nonetheless, the animation does not look nice as a result of these are all linear keyframes.
If we choose all these keyframes and hit F9 on the keyboard, this may simple ease them in order that the animation seems higher.
Nonetheless, we nonetheless want to regulate the curve. So with the keyframes nonetheless chosen, click on on the velocity graph icon to enter the velocity graph.
Now we will regulate the keyframes by pulling on the handles on the backside in order that it feels just like the instance video.
As soon as you’re pleased with the velocity of the animation utilizing the velocity graph, we will additionally tighten up the animation by shifting the center keyframes nearer to the start of the timeline.
The subsequent factor we have to do is add the textual content. The textual content slides in from the left, however the prime line is shifting first, adopted by the center line, after which lastly the third line slides in.
Now, textual content layers and After Results have an entire bunch of additional animation properties which you can allow or disable. So let’s click on on the Add button and choose Place.
In case you open up beneath the vary selector in Superior, we will change the Based mostly On parameter, and as an alternative of Characters, we will choose Strains.
Which means it’s going to animate in response to the traces of textual content (e.g. line 1, line 2, line 3).
Change Models to Index, and now should you play with the Place worth, you possibly can see how the textual content is animating the traces individually.
Now, proper on the level the place the ultimate keyframe is, when the field reaches its closing measurement, I’ll insert a place keyframe (this isn’t the place of your complete layer, it is simply modifying the place of every certainly one of these textual content traces).
Transfer to the center keyframes and offset them in order that they make a diagonal line. You’ll be able to see the little “x”s within the picture signify the place all of the characters are.
Return to the tip keyframe and insert a place keyframe (that is the place of your complete layer).
After which return to the center level of the animation with these two keyframes and push the textual content off to the left.
And now, should you preview the animation, it ought to match the reference animation. To complete this off, all we have to do is choose the keyframes and hit F9 on the keyboard to simple ease them.
Then return into the graph editor and regulate the velocity to about 90% of the incoming affect.
The ultimate step is so as to add a nice-looking background. I’ve downloaded some actually cool-looking backgrounds from Envato Components which we will use for this challenge. Merely import one and place it above the black background.
You’ll be able to obtain the background I’ve utilized by clicking on the hyperlink beneath:
Hit Management-Alt-Shift-G, which is the keyboard shortcut to resize the layer to suit the composition’s peak.
Apply a Quick Field Blur impact to the background layer in order that it does not compete with the distinction of the textual content layer.
One other impact that appears even higher is the Digital camera Lens Blur. It incorporates extra results, but it surely’s extra intensive to render.
You too can add a Curves Impact to the background.
Congratulations
Congratulations! And that is how one can animate a bounding field reveal animation in Adobe After Results. Now that you have discovered the fundamentals, take a look at among the different tutorials we have now beneath.
I hope you’ve got discovered this After Results animation tutorial helpful, and I am going to see you subsequent time on Envato Tuts+!
