How To Make A Collage Animation (After Effects Tutorial)

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In this video I go through the process of creating a collage animation. A lot of cool details and textures in there but my favourite has to be the “hand drawn” elements. These types of animations are always fun to make and a great way to play around with colour palettes, textures, pacing, and fonts.
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As always, thank you for watching!
Feel free to skip around:
00:00 - Intro
00:03 - The Idea
00:31 - The Storyboard
01:20 - The Assets
01:48 - After Effects
01:53 - Scene 1
13:31 - Scene 2
31:59 - Scene 3
41:47 - The Sauce
44:28 - Result
The equipment:
Sony a7iii
Tamron 28-75
Cinebloom 10%
Deity V-MIC D3
Tascam DR-10L
Peak Design Travel Tripod - Aluminium
Amaran 100D + Neewer Softbox
Mac Studio Max M1 64gb Ram
Asus ProArt 27” Monitor
Music Used:
Kyle Cox - Some Good - Instrumental
Sourced from Artlist artlist.io/Mapal-2888934 (Referral link)
Huion did not pay me nor did they have any influence on the video. They were simply kind enough to send it for me to play around with for free!

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A 45 mins of small details we need this type of tuts back on KZbin thanks man

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[@igobyart]

Love this tutorial! Watching a cool project come together is great in itself. But the real value of this video is in watching the fast, efficient, organized workflow of a highly skilled editor. I learned a ton.

[@mapal]

Thank you! Glad to hear that

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[@madebyskull]

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[@mapal]

Thank you! Much appreciated!

[@Malethicent]

This is amazing, thank you for walking us through the process! How you made everything look so harmonious and just knew what to add next is pretty incredible

[@mapal]

Thank you! Storyboarding helps a lot in terms of planning what elements I want to include!

[@doodlve]

You are surely one of the best motion designers.

[@VincenzoDelafonte]

didn't watch it yet, but this is the only channel which I can trust the title. when it says how to make collage Animation, 100% you'll learn how to make it.

[@mapal]

🫶

[@romaingamain]

You're like THE master of After Effects editing... It's so satisfying to watch you work, and explain everything so damn well, i love it !

[@mapal]

Means a lot. Thank you!

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great work. love how you call out your keyboard steps!!!!

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[@mapal]

Hahaha thank you! One day we will get there

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[@createdaley]

Mapal woke up and chose extra sauce this morning! Can't wait to watch this in full.

[@mapal]

Best way to start the day!

[@julieshipman8921]

Thank you for this detailed tutorial. It’s great!

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You deserve 1 million thank's from Morocco

[@Prince_Arsh05]

The color grade of this video is legit chef kiss! awesome video man

[@mapal]

Thank you!

[@Original_SEM]

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[@whiskeylandtv]

thanks for making these man! super helpful. Your teaching style and pacing is perfect. Ive already implemented things ive learned from you to projects im working on.

[@mapal]

That is awesome! Glad you're finding the content helpful

[@AAvfx]

A complete tutorial, professional and clean, thanks!

[@mapal]

Glad you liked it!

[@arnobchakma8625]

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[@yuvrajadhikari4074]

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[@user-oy4lx4pn1e]

I love you Mapal you are helping me alot, thank you so much! ❤

[@niku6294]

Wow, new equipment unlocked! Looking forward to more videos on using a drawing tablet for motion design in the future! Mapal is the best!🤟

[@mapal]

If you have one it’s definitely a sick tool to use from time to time! Great way to create some unique stuff and set yourself apart

[@niku6294]

Yes, I recently acquired a drawing tablet. Although I'm still a beginner, your video has inspired me a lot. Thanks for sharing!

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Love from India ❤no compromise with quality thank you bro

[@joshuacontreras]

Thanks for this video, I’m excited to try this out on AE tomorrow 😊

[@Dasarmas]

Just wow!

[@mlegrand]

Enjoyed this one. Thanks Mapal.

[@Sanjib2059]

Great video as Always.

[@omarkhalil8226]

THE6H! THANK YOU, MAPAL, FOR TEACHING US. KEEP GOING; YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT WAY BRO

[@HaveAnother775]

I'm in the middle of a 2min collage animation and I needed some inspiration, bruhhhhh thank you, super fun designs

[@mapal]

W! Feel free to share it with me when it’s done. I’d love to see it

[@vanemotion]

This looks good👌

[@Tone.Marketing]

Incredible workflow )

[@user-qw2kz9oz5n]

Love your content ❤❤

[@carolinevocke3242]

😱 i just watched 15 min of the tutorial and already learned SO much about how to get things faster done, workflow, plugins,… Thanks!

[@mapal]

Love to hear that!

[@emretartici]

that's what i need. thanks 🙏

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Love this!

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AMAZING BRO!

[@edwinonyango4299]

Thank you Mapal

[@boxingflix8072]

Amazing technique!

[@ThomSison]

Cannot wait to try this! You are an amazing artist and you're inspiring me to pursue animation more. Will most definitely try more of your tutorials soon 🙏🏼

[@mapal]

That’s awesome! Thank you

[@Alina_Sauer]

It's great, so inspiring!

[@bharat5194]

You are a great teacher! Thanks for sharing

[@mapal]

Much appreciated!

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[@mapal]

Great suggestion! Thank you

[@tooniverse180]

Sure

[@_zzzfr]

luvliest...🖤... matchcuts n transitions so on point... i also tried that text animation...turned out to be very good🙌🙌🙌 might werk on a collage now🙌

[@mapal]

Love to hear it! If you do I’d love to see the final product

[@Lazareditss]

soo clean

[@evanmadden4156]

brilliant workflow. subbed

[@mapal]

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[@Cineinsaner]

love this tutorial.. make more

[@drnareshchauhan]

Wow great thank you 👍👍

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Hey man just wanted to give you a big thanks for improving my editing skills for the past few months! 💪🙏

[@mapal]

Happy to hear that!

[@Mr.Motion.]

Nice, video Mapal. Also, make a video on how we can get a client as a motion designer. Both outbound and inbound strategies.

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Good as always. With love from Russia.

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great production keep it up

[@mapal]

Appreciate it!

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[@mapal]

Thank you!

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[@M7mad_Amjad]

THANK YOU SO MUCH, YOU ARE AMAZING!

[@mapal]

Glad it helped!

[@trique9776]

Collage animation is about cutting up, scanning in, and then animating like crazy, color correction, voila. I have done a lot of collage animation before

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AMAZING!!! THANK U

[@jonrex0304]

I'm actually watching this to create a collage for an upcoming clubs day for my club, so thank you, also your channel has a great balance between quality and quantity and I know you'll be getting Millions of subscribers one day

[@mapal]

That sounds sick! I’d love to see the finished project

[@jonrex0304]

Thanks will do

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love u always

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[@mapal]

🫡

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Thank you mate..:)

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love it

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Really helpful🥹

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mapal the videos are a 9,5/10 it would be a 10/10 if we would get the source footage to train these mechanics😂❤️

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[@jalfonso07]

Wow! So good brother 🫡🔥

[@mapal]

Thanks 🔥

[@Shwemy99]

Can you make a tutorial on how we can make the fold animation like the one you made on the cameras images and on the shot you write the title of every stage of the animation

[@mapal]

Check out the Ali Abdaal tutorial I have! That shows how to do it

[@kalwarrior]

i didn't even realized its 44 min long ,thanks

[@mapal]

🫶

[@E-daas]

My man! Beatiful job. Could you make. a video on how to create and animate a documentary style timeline.

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HEATTT

[@mapal]

Thank you!!!

[@piercecharlotte9635]

Hi I realy love this video it's realy nice Is it possible that we have the element's of the video to make theme?

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Creative

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[@thenegusayo]

Love your vids Mapal! You should drop the project files please!

[@mapal]

I’m working on that. Should have something at the beginning of 2024 👀

[@shu-tongmurray896]

amazing!! thank you' i love this tutorial!! how did you make the paper crumple reveal with the cameras it's the beginning of the sequence (i see you used photoshop too?)

[@mapal]

Printed out the photos, cut it up, crumbled it and took photos of it, then removed the background in photoshop. I show it in my Ali Abdaal video

[@shimaaessam70]

great work! I really appreciate your effort thanks! How did you make this dots in the background?

[@mapal]

It’s just an overlay texture. I scanned a dot grid paper I had laying around

[@pasthikopramudhito4608]

Hey Mapal, nice tutorial. What fonts did you use for "The Evolution of Camera"?

[@mapal]

Helvetica neue for “the evolution of” and obviously variable for “cameras”

[@arpit8074]

damm nice

[@borabarroso3564]

Awesome work! Where can I get the assets and materials used in the tutorial? Thanks so much!

[@mapal]

Thank you! Project file is available on my Patreon!

[@HiraCloud]

can you make the tutorial for your title card effect?:)

[@tandonluv45]

How good was this tutorial!!! Like mind blowing to see each of his tutorial. Can someone tell me how did he add different wiggle to every letter in his chapter intros??? Like the "First scene" "last scene". I couldn't understand that.

[@mapal]

Add a position animator to the text -> add a wiggly selector -> play around with the position to get a subtle look -> add a random() expression to the random seed

[@tandonluv45]

@@mapal thanks for the reply. I'll try it soon. ❤️

[@saporaxes]

How did you do the cutting images? From the camera unfolding?

[@justfb]

Maybe my question is gonna look stupid or wrong.... But what's vox and magnatesmedia main editing style called ?

[@ethopiao]

Thank you! I'm using this tutorial as apart of my Video Production Exam. One question though, how do I import the text (Evolution of Cameras) directly from Illustrator to After Effects?

[@mapal]

There are few ways of doing this. I use overlord, which is a paid plugin but a huge timesaver. Otherwise you can save it to your asset library, import ai files directly etc

[@ethopiao]

@@mapalThank you so much! I got a 100% on my exam thanks to this tutorial. My only problem or issue I had was the newspaper in the text part but I figured it out and fixed it. Thank you.

[@orelorel144]

hey mapal ! great video learned alot can i ask you how did you do that subtitles in the start of the video ?

[@mapal]

Not sure I know what subtitles you’re referring to?

[@orelorel144]

@@mapal the subtitles that are in the start like "the idea" one.

[@mapal]

The techniques are similar to what is shown in the tutorial itself actually

[@cocktaildenuitoff]

Awesome vid! can you make psds of this kind of works and sell them on your website?

[@mapal]

I have project files available on my Patreon

[@TutiFaganello]

I loved it! Gonna make a job with this style very soon :D how much would you charge for an animation like this one?

[@mapal]

Thank you! It's definitely a fun style to work with! It depends honestly. Some projects may be hourly some a flat fee. For something this short/simple I'd probably go somewhere between $500-$1000