Fun motion design outcomes from an unlikely source.
First: if you’re new to the Text Animator in After Effects, Motion by Nick offers a 15-minute tutorial for beginners:
School of Motion has an excellent series of After Effects video tutorials. Each 30-to-60 minute episode demonstrates, step-by-step, sophisticated tips and tricks. The episode ‘Creatively Using Text Animators in After Effects‘ explores the tool for other outcomes and, along the way, encourages:
- Thinking about tools differently – a great way to generate ideas and results that look and feel a little different from everything else out there
- Learning tools as a language – once you understand what’s unique to a particular medium or format, you can begin to really express things you couldn’t any other way
More lessons at School of Motion.
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