Animation TIP - Motion Blur in After Effects
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Overview
- You will need a copy of Adobe After Effects, Illustrator & Photoshop CC 2017 or above. 90% of the course will be done in After Effects but a few things are better done in Illustrator & Photoshop. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.
- No previous motion graphic skills are needed.
- No previous After Effects, Illustrator or Photoshop skills are needed.
- 48 lectures 5+ hours of well structured content.
- You'll learn to take Excel spread sheets and animate this in After Effects.
- You’ll learn how to make animated pie charts, line charts & bar graphs.
- You’ll learn how to create percentage counters.
- You’ll learn how to animate icons making beautiful infographics.
- You’ll learn how to create 'voice over' infographics.
- You’ll learn all the animation techniques needed to bring your data to life.
- You will have the finished files so you never fall behind.
- Downloadable exercise files & cheat sheet.
- Forum support from me and the rest of the BYOL crew.
- Techniques used by professional motion graphic designers.
- A wealth of other resources and websites to help your new career path.
- No previous After Effects experience is necessary.
- This course is for people completely new to After Effects. No previous animation or motion graphic design experienced is necessary.
- This is a relaxed, well paced introduction that will enable you to produce impressive video for your business or organization. Only basic computing skills are necessary - If you can send emails and surf the internet then you will cope well with our course.
- There is a 100% refund if you don’t find this course useful. Just message me, no questions asked, I’ll refund your payment in full.
Course duration 5.5 hours + your study.
Daniel Scott
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.
Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.
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In this video we're going to look at Motion Blur. Motion Blur makes everything look more awesome when it's moving. See the top one, Motion Blur, bottom one, boring, no Motion Blur. Let's go and learn how to do that in After Effects.
To add Motion Blur, I'm just going to get my Play Head, so it's kind of around the Icon exploding part of my Time Line. I'm going to zoom in a little bit. Move along, I want to get him close enough, there we go. And I'm going to play it. At the moment it's quite vectory. We want to add some Motion Blur. And you're going to remember the first part, which is, see this little icon here, this little worm looking thing, that's the Motion Blur column. Within that column, I'm going to turn on this layer here. So we'll work on the house first. What we might do is turn the Eyeball off on this Circle Burst. You'll notice that it's not Shape Layer 1 anymore. I renamed it Circle Burst in between videos, just because… To rename, you right click it, and say 'Rename'. So, Icon1, and what I'm going to do, you turn it on and nothing changes. What you need to do is, turn on the Master Switch, which is this one. So what you can do is, you have the Master Switch turned on and then you can decide each layer that you would like to have Motion Blur, which ones you don't. Just remember to turn them both on. Let's have a preview.
I guess it's a little hard to see, but when I slow it down, can you see, it's blurring when it's moving fast. Like it would do in your video with a regular camera. Adds a bit of life to it, so I turn it off, sharp. That, blurry. That's one of the big difference between using something like this to do your animation, and Adobe Animate. Adobe Animate doesn't allow you to do Blur very well. This Motion Blur is a really nice way to add life to Icons. That's good for that one, let's turn it off and turn the Eyeball on for the Star Burst. And do the same thing, turn the Blur on. Give it a preview, let's give it a look. Just looks good while it's moving fast, being blurry. So let's do them both on, Combination, Motion Blur. Awesome. So pretty much, any time I animate anything, I might try to turn the Master Switch on, and then turn on the specific Layers. And that my friends is Motion Blur. The first of our animation tips. Let's go and look at some more.
