Set Up Color Controllers to Recolor Animations | After Effects Tutorial

Learn how to set up color controllers to make it easy to recolor animations in After Effects. This video covers:
0:36 - How to set up a simple color controller so that you can quickly and easily change the colors in a composition.
5:15 - Create variations of your composition with different colors, without affecting the original or having to duplicate comps.
7:11 - How to make a master color controller so that you can change all the colors across multiple different compositions with just a few color pickers.
11:43 - Bonus Tip
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[@NareshUgaonkar]

Thanks a lot. the fill effect trick saved me so much time. I had a lot of layers with the same color.

[@catindawall]

This is so helpful!!!! I was struggling with trying to change colors on a large text block that was all divided into each character 😭 the fill effect is so great...

[@animation-explained]

I'm glad this helped!

[@MatthewRaman-h4v]

This was so dang helpful, thank you so much!

[@animation-explained]

Glad to hear it! You’re welcome!

[@KhalilCh]

Many thanks for the tutorial, I have a question, What if I want to animate the color in the controller? I tried that with text, but it did not work, it works with animating the fill effects with text layer, but it does not work with controller, Thanks again

[@animation-explained]

It should work to animate the color of the color controller and the text color will change if the fill of the text is parented to the color controller. Here's how I would set this up: Within the text layer, click the button that's a circle with a triangle in it next to the word "Animate" then choose Fill Color > RGB from the pop-up menu. Then parent this Fill Color to the color controller. Alternatively, you could add a fill effect to the text layer and parent that color to the color controller. Hope this helps but let me know if you have any other questions!