Abstract Shapes Animation | After Effects Tutorial

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In this After Effects tutorial, we'll animate abstract shapes and use different animation techniques to make it as easy as possible.
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Content:
0:00 Intro
0:14 Setting up the first shape
1:52 Coding Expressions in After Effects
2:26 Animating the 1st shape
3:23 Adding and Animating the 2nd shape
5:05 The small shape
6:33 Trace Path
8:55 Outro
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► Software: Adobe After Effects 22 (I use the "Default" Workspace in my tutorials)
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[@haaappy]

deine tutorials sind wirklich mega gut. dankesehr!

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Cool! Sehr gerne!

[@ndongalex]

Thank you ! You did a great job simplifying such a complex daw....Looking forward to be a great producer

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Awesome! Glad it was helpful!

[@hinakausar7471]

Tysm Manuel these tuts help a lot

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Awesome! You're so welcome!

[@erandwanesection7550]

With your videos my learning curve will shrink drastically. Thank you.

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Very welcome!

[@shivendrapawar9618]

Nice tutorial!! keep posting more...

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Thanks very much! Will do!

[@varunkukreja]

Love ur videos my hero

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Awesome! Thanks!

[@varunkukreja]

@@ManueldoesMotion Manuel Im new to motion graphics. There are few small animations which i dont able to copy and try for my learning as they are without tutorials. would you help.

[@darshanjeetofficial7573]

I started making soft recently, I was wondering if you wanna do any features.

[@jaysonfontela5761]

💖

[@ManueldoesMotion]

Thanks very much!

[@elpi_flv]

Really fun tutorial! I even added color in the shapes gradient and animated it to create a third color when the 2 circles meet . I noticed that at the very beginning of the animation, the gradient doesn't appear on the Right shape before the 10th frame. Do you know why and if it can be fixed? Thanks!

[@ManueldoesMotion]

That's awesome! The Start and End of Ramp are linked to the position of the shape_small 2 layer. Which takes effect from frame 27 on. So you could split the shape right layer at frame 27 and link the start and end of ramp to the shape_right layer in the first part. It's probably going to be tricky to get the positions right...

[@elpi_flv]

@@ManueldoesMotion I actually tried something a bit similar. Instead of splitting the layer, I started the shape_small at frame 0 instead of 27, but made the opacity at 0. I then made it follow the movement of the right_shape and adjusted the graph editor to make sure it follows the speed. The i added a key frame at frame 26 with opacity 0 and a keyframe at 27 with opacity at 100. It worked well! Thanks again!

[@ManueldoesMotion]

@@elpi_flv That's a great solution!