After Effects Tutorial - Easing (Motion Design Techniques)

From animation and motion graphics, to experience across games, UX, websites and more… there is one motion design technique that permeates through, bringing with it the capability to lift the quality of any motion or animation displayed.
Let me introduce you to EASING!
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So it was pointed out to me that my definitions of which part of the graph is easing "IN" and which part was easing "OUT" was incorrect. Admittedly the definitions of which is which gets confusing, especially for me coming from both an animation and programming background.
It all has to do with what you are considered to be the subject of easing. Within animation, it's all about the keyframe, within programming it's about the motion that is occurring.
To correct myself then....
( When it comes to Animation such as After Effects & Blender etc )
- Easing IN = when you are easing IN to a keyframe, so the easing occurs as you approach the keyframe.
- Easing OUT = when you are easing OUT of a keyframe, so the easing occurs as you depart the keyframe.
In the context of our graphs as shown on-screen, it means easing OUT occurs on the left, and easing IN occurs on the right.
However, it is different from a programming perspective, such as demonstrated on easings.net
( When it comes to programming )
- Easing IN = when you are easing at the START of the motion between two keyframes.
- Easing OUT = when you are easing at the END of the motion between two keyframes.
Therefore, depending on the context of where you are using easing, easing IN might be at the start, or it might be at the end.
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Learn how to make your animations and motion graphics feel more natural with EASING. Discover what easing does, and how to apply it in a number of different ways in Adobe After Effects.
Check out the website for this tutorial, plus explanations, code snippets, FAQs, and more....
mediaworkbench.com.au/tutoria...
Dan Ebbert's article on Overshoot and Bounce:
motionscript.com/articles/bou...
MisterHorse's Animation Composer:
misterhorse.tv/animation-comp...
Easings Cheat Sheet (as referenced in the video):
easings.net/
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[@MediaWorkbench]

Glad it is a constant source of support for you. Easing is definitely one of those things that is applicable regardless of the type of animation. I've been dabbling with achieving easing purely through expressions, and the results make the workflow so much quicker. Will probably share a video in the near future on it.

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im really struggling iwth easing... i understand it but idk either my eyes are too weak or i don get it because i often dont see the affect take place... maybe it needs to be longer im not sure..

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[@electromaniacal]

1:40 - you have "ease in" and "ease out" reversed. To "ease into" a frame or "slow into" a frame means to slow down. And conversely, to "ease out" or "slow out" of a frame means to speed up. This has been the standard convention for decades and is even the standard in Adobe After Effects. Reference Richard Williams’ Animation Survival Kit for more information.

[@MediaWorkbench]

You are correct in terms of animation such as in After Effects, I did get that the wrong way around. In terms of programming what I have is correct though, such as referenced in the easings.net website I listed, along with documentation listed on Apple's Developer documentation, Google's Developer documentation, jQuery's documentation etc. Apparently the issue stems from obviously Williams' talking about easing "in to" a pose / keyframe, so easing in would occur prior to the keyframe - vs how it has been interpreted as programming languages have adopted easing, where easing is applied to the movement itself rather than in the context of "poses". So they incorporated ease "in" to be the start of the animation, and ease "out" to be at the end. I'll admit I got that one wrong, I've never been exposed to Williams' resources, up until recently I always just manually adjusted my graphs for easing so didn't take notice of the naming in AE, and all my references I used when determining the terminology were things like the above mentioned developer / web-based documentation which in hindsight all lean on the programming-definition of ease-in and ease-out rather than the animation definition.

[@electromaniacal]

@@MediaWorkbench The confusion is understandable. Many people have it wrong online. I learned it in animation school. Richard Williams learned it from the Nine Old Men, the Disney animators who came up with the terms and created the 12 principles of animation. Somewhere along the line developers named the curves incorrectly and the mistake has perpetuated for years. All that aside, your video is well done.

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this started out good, but I don't feel like I know anything more about after effects. you really have to just draw the curves by hand in the graph editor (unless you get that plugin)?

[@MediaWorkbench]

Jim Bridger honestly there’s only a few different ways to approach easing within After Effects. There’s really only two ways to do it ongoing: plugins, which either generate key frames or generate expressions to create the eases movement; or the graph editor, where you draw and manipulate the curves by hand. I’ve been doing animations and motion graphic for the past fifteen years in After Effects, and those are the only two methods I’m really aware of to handle easing. I wish After Effects had some extra graph editor tools so it could quickly create typical easing curves, but the closest it gets is applying EasyEase

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Do you know why ae keeps automatically easing my keyframes and how I can deactivate this

[@MediaWorkbench]

Strange, haven’t seen a way to make them ease by default. If your last keyframes on a property were eased, when you add more they typically are added eased as well, but toggling then to normal should mean the next keyframes added don’t become eased automatically.

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