After Effects Tutorial: Animate Any Object or Text Along a Custom Path

Need help animating your motion graphics!? In this exciting After Effects Tutorial, we will create custom paths that will allow you to take any object or text layer and animate along that path. This animation technique will speed up your workflow and make the position key-framing process easier. In this After Effects tutorial, we will animate a vector graphic and a text layer that will wrap along a path.
Use shape layers to quickly create you paths and paste them over to your position parameter. To wrap text along a path, create the mask within your text layer and set the path options to your mask.
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[@avnojista]

If you want your object to follow and ROTATE along the path after you pasted path keyframes, right click object > transform > auto-orient > orient along the path.

[@andredemony]

Boom!

[@shereedillon743]

Life saver! Thank you 🙏

[@enisfetislam]

This is what I actually came for. Thank you!

[@RioDeNubes]

Thank you!

[@kyasuta7195]

Thank you sir

[@danielsambrano3845]

6 years after and this video still have a gold like value

[@lascarnesmalvadas]

This tutorial is amazing, no needless stuff, just the straight up tutorial and so well explained! Loved it

[@yaakoakoy7832]

2024 still the best tutorial

[@WolfgangDibiasi]

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[@nebula0024]

Thank you for this!!! You were straight to the point, and demonstrated exactly what I needed to know.

[@한의사될인재]

This video was exactly what I've searched for. Thanks a lot, it really helps me.

[@prblmsbby9449]

omg thank you!!! i couldn't understand why it was going in a different position. this saved me SO much time!

[@rohitsingh7623]

Clear and precise , PERFECT!!

[@LillySchwartz]

You explained exactly what I wanted to know in 1.5min. Awesome! Thanks man!

[@agw421]

tried this tutorial from a lot of other authors. this was the easiest to understand

[@souravkumarprusty]

Hey Joshua I don't know how but every problem I encounter in After Effects, I get the solution to that from your channel. Thanks a ton man 🤗🌻 Hats off to you🙌🏻

[@poojashah3097]

u are a freaking genious and always help me whenever i m stuck thanks so much

[@benzakonium]

Great video, no waffles, straight to the point and not endlessly repetitive like so many how-tos. Great stuff, thanks.

[@adiladila1762]

thanks...its easier than expected

[@scottshaffer1763]

Brand new to After Effects and your videos have been helped me tremendously - thank you!

[@SonduckFilm]

Thank you!

[@davidsnakedoe7322]

this was exactly what I was looking for. Absolutely liked this video, thanks for this tutorial, buddy!

[@wilkes6623]

Concise and straight to the point - thank you very much for this amazing tutorial video :)

[@Dudek1523]

I've been lookin for a tutorial of this for a couple days without success. Now I finally found one that's very well explained. Thanks, you have a new follower.

[@MsAqaqSwsw]

super simple, thanks

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Wowwwww!! amazing...

[@JonneytheKidd]

You are a freakin' Genius! Thank you for taking the time to make this video.

[@arjunsreekumar5216]

very helpful..very easy tricks ..thankyou

[@mathspointofview3341]

soo easy and i loved it

[@arthurpendragonsyt]

Thank you so much! I have been looking for just this feature for a long time.

[@BioOrganicCatalyst]

I Like how fast you go. Don't have to wait through a lot of dead time to get information.

[@chaser9214]

thank you !

[@Goldrush89]

Your tutorials are great - straight to the point and easy to follow.

[@amiraelbanaiuxdesigner94]

wow, thank you

[@soleaux]

thank you so much this is exactly what I needed!!

[@shauryakumar5939]

Thank man. Great tutorial.

[@Dz_never_lie]

Aww thanks you so much man you save a lot time

[@anshuaspirant1370]

I think you missed something with the rotation as the rocket is moving on the path but it's going straight itself as it should rotate along the curvature of the path isn't it?

[@dng501]

Incredibly helpful thank you

[@antifreezeanimation6223]

Thanks for making!

[@karagosi]

I don't know anything about after effect but i came here because in the software that im learning (blender 3D software) there is this follow a path thing and i have used it when in was creating my first two simple animations for my KZbin channel. Can't wait to get my hands into after effects.

[@KevinP-i4k]

so helpful! I spent an hour trying to learn this last night from another tutorial and he was missing a vital step. Thanks for explaining properly!

[@gumby3057]

Perfect, no script to download.

[@עפריטמים]

thank you!! :)

[@anbalaganramu8454]

Excellent. Very easy to understand. Thank you.

[@redcrosses5910]

Thanks, man! Simple and comprehensive!

[@jacqcosmos1967]

amazing and simple tutorial. thank you !

[@valentinaman2257]

Thank you

[@DrNimaAzadeh]

Saved me

[@ДарьяГорлова-ж7ш]

That's gorgeous! It's really quickly and clearly, exactly what you need then you are doing a project and don't want to waste your time!

[@smaksostx3079]

I love it, very fast and clear tuto, you won another LIKE👍 😁😁😁

[@MohammadAlshahrani]

Amazing

[@nateratchet9091]

Thankyou. Clear, concise, and to the point.

[@loyalklosburrel]

excellent video

[@e69advitam]

for closed path (like oval) - if you need change start point - on shape layer select anchor point - right click mouse > mask and shape > set first vertex

[@e69advitam]

For change direction - chose position (to select all points on timeline) - top menu>animation>keyframe assistant>time-reverse keyframes

[@raghadorabi2230]

very useful , thank youuuu

[@shoney6289]

superb Bro💝💝

[@wsem5671]

Thank You Very Mush That Was Help Full

[@khadeshareese4907]

Thank you so much 😊

[@aepeessla]

Omg thank you so much 🙌 u saved my animation 👑

[@niyesnino]

thanks you you save my life

[@niyesnino]

youre the best

[@princepjohnson]

Man, thank you for simplifying this so well! Excellent work and very helpful. Thank you.

[@erin5703]

That's very helpful for a learner in the beginning.Thank you.

[@astralplane6182]

Great video - thank you!

[@valentinacardona6433]

Thank u!!

[@rabbitskillz9826]

You sir made the best tut for motion along paths, + rep!

[@BsERoss]

Amazing, thank you for this! Such a simple thing to do but I had no idea how to do it..

[@Katia-dh8hc]

thank you for the video 👍

[@jenniferbogartz4924]

Thank you!

[@syafiqrasyid4887]

damn u r so good and clean brother!

[@omarghazal1568]

I liked how you clarified why using a mask wouldn't be accurate

[@ArmoredScorn]

Dude, thank you.

[@ch33kster]

Better than the rest explaining how to do this. Cheers!

[@peterkarim6964]

Super useful, thanks man!

[@Vandross01]

Thank you, this helped me alot on animating along a path. Liked and Subscribed. =)

[@apollogt5506]

great tutorial :D

[@kasrasaint]

short and simple. thank you♥

[@beautifulworld7940]

Excellent explanation! 👏👏👏

[@swatihere]

Really helpful and effective! Thank you! I can animate objects along a path now.

[@RSProduction]

nice video bro

[@FLOWTUTS]

Great tutorial but you forget to talk about auto orientation

[@JockeBRosberg]

Was thinking the same thing man

[@FLOWTUTS]

yes it's just a mistake maybe he is so busy that he missed that but his channel is awesome

[@JulianAbreu]

yeah, that is missing

[@FLOWTUTS]

yes it's just a mistake maybe he is so busy that he missed that but his channel is awesome

[@JulianAbreu]

yes Flowtuts it's just a mistake maybe he is so busy that he missed that but his channel is awesome

[@bungliejin]

This is awesome!

[@jams2blues]

Thanks for the wonderful tutorial mate! Quick and easy, under 5 minutes like a pro.

[@gijsaddas6041]

This is the stuff I was looking for, just an easy way to do it, ty man this really helps

[@21stCenturyPirate]

great......your tutorials are so easy to understand

[@stargana7585]

but a little fast

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NO FRIKKEN WAY 🤯🤯🤯

[@GiselaGiardino]

Excellent tutorial, thank you ++++

[@Efadh]

this is helpful and easy, thank you.

[@billrichardson7409]

Very simple and very useful tutorial. thanks

[@Pik_motion]

thanks a lot

[@blackforest2527]

Love your Tutorials. 👍

[@lunerishauntingbeowulf]

Thank you so much, this helped me tremendously! Trying to finish my final project and couldn’t get the damn image to move XD this is a lifesaver

[@charmibhatt915]

Master in explaining! 😀

[@siddfinch6384]

Very helpful

[@McAmber]

awesome tutorial, thx

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[@SPCBRAWLERZ]

Thanks for the reminder on this video!

[@glennscottfreo9727]

..thanks a lot!

[@barbiewein]

Super !!

[@sjonphynn]

Thank you! This worked out great for me. Will be checking out more of your content!

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I like simple and amazing tuts ... You are simply amazing ☺️

[@playyourway2963]

thank u sir

[@NowrajKhanAlin]

Thnx Buddy ❤❤

[@HowToAnimateTutorial]

hank you so much for showing this to us! Amazing effect!

[@CrystalWhitlow]

You are awesome!