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This means any effects that are applied to the solid layer happen underneath the text, for some applications that may be what you want, here, we want the animation to go over the text for the effect we are looking for, and so we switch the layers around. Here we created our solid layer first, and the text sits on top. When trying any sort of animation, you must get into the habit of having your layers in the right order for it all to work. The next step is a simple one but worth mentioning. 200 as it makes the particles shoot towards the screen a little more and I prefer the effect, and matched the particle color with the text. Whilst here we are looking at the Particle World simulation effect for instance, you could try others to see if you prefer the effect. The effect controls on the right are quite comprehensive, and playing around with them you can find some interesting results, it really does pay to experiment when trying these kinds of new projects just to understand what is possible. Whichever way you go, the end result is this. You can either go through Effect>Simulation>CC Particle World to get to the one we are using here, or simply go to the effects and presets panel on the right and drag the CC Particle World effect onto your solid layer. For this one, we highlight the Solid Layer in the Timeline panel, and then choose our effect. I’m happy where my text is for this one, but it is a useful tool to know about no matter what you are doing.įor our first attempt at animation we are going to use the effects built into After Effects itself, this is by far the most straightforward way of getting some impressive results. If you need your logo to be perfectly centered, or any other object in fact, a handy hint is to use the grid to ensure everything is right where you want it, you can access that by using the button in the composition panel as shown below. Now we have our Logo, such as it is, we can begin to manipulate it to create animation. Adjust the text size and color so it can be seen clearly and we are done. So, I now I go through Layer>New>Text and create my text layer. Now here you can add in a pre-prepared logo, artwork or whatever to work on, for simplicity I’m just going to use a simple text object as my logo to demonstrate the technique. Now we have our background let’s create our logo.

Now we have our framework, we need something to build on, so next we create a solid layer for our Logo by using Layers>New>Solid, choosing an appropriate color to match your composition.

I used a small web resolution of 320 x 240 setting for this purpose. Our first job it to set up our project ready for animation, so first off is creating a composition using Composition>New to work in.

ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS LOGO HOW TO

How to Make an Animated Logo in After Effects

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