Blurring your text while it moves

Course contents
SECTION: 5
Inspiration 4:15
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Swinging text 10:36
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Puppet tool 5:54
SECTION: 15
Effects & presets 6:56
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What now? 3:56

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Course info

53 lessons / 6 hours

Overview

Motion graphics are an essential part of video creation and editing. From moving titles across the screen to stabilising your footage to smooth out the bumps or replacing a sign in the background. Ubiquitous, subtly powerful, and for the beginner, a bit mystifying. You need to learn motion graphics. You need a tutorial that will help at every step of the way, without leaving you drowning in details.

If you’ve ever made a video, you’ve probably already discovered that it’s all the little extra infographics, titles and animation that make your project look professional – and you’ve probably already wondered which is the right After Effects tutorial that will let you access the potential.

After Effects is the industrial strength tool for putting the motion in your graphic designs and content. It can also appear to be pretty deep, so getting guidance from a pro that understands how to teach, as much as how to use, After Effects is going to be the key that unlocks your potential.

How about a motion graphics tutorial taught by a working professional who just happens to be great at teaching too? Daniel Scott has been working with animation and motion graphics for over a decade and is the founder of Bring Your Own Laptop - they've been helping people learn design and animation all over the world for just as long.

 



 

Daniel, an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, will take you one manageable step at a time through motion graphics in a series of small practical projects that come together to unlock Adobe After Effects, animation, and infographics. These tutorials give you the complete foundation that you can build on for years to come. Learn the principles and the specifics of producing content, in a way that you'll understand and remember. And stay awake.

Just 3 hours long, and very hands on, you’ll take on specific tools and techniques one at a time so you can easily comprehend each aspect of the tutorial, and see all the parts of creating motion graphics before you get intimidated by the scale of what you can do. From zero to hero, as we like to say.

You get downloadable exercise files that match the course, so no time wasted trying to match project settings or finding material to work with. And you can use the end results in your own projects or portfolio – you can customise them to suit your needs as you grow in understanding.

To learn motion graphics is to unlock the door on the magic that makes your video or web content stand out in the crowd. Daniel is going to provide you with the motion graphics tutorial you’ve been looking for to get more than your foot in the door – you’re going to be able to create beautiful animation and infographics. You’ll be empowered to use After Effects the way it was meant to be used, and to create your own creative content, even during the tutorial itself.

What are the requirements?

  • This course is for absolute beginners

  • You'll need a copy of Adobe After Effects CC 2015 or above. A free 30 day trial can be download from Adobe here.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • Create beautiful motion graphics

  • Animate compelling infographics

  • Choose the correct video settings.

  • You’ll learn how to exporting your video easily.

  • You’ll be able to create slick type animations.

  • Rendering your video for Youtube & Vimeo.

  • Create titles for interviews.

  • Add music to your motion graphics.

  • Trim & editing video.

  • Add watermarking your video.

  • Fixing shaky footage.

  • Color correct & fix any bad footage.

  • Add a vignette to your video.

  • Learn how to use your skills from Illustrator & Photoshop

  • How to use green screen footage

  • How to mask like a pro.

  • How to animate infographics like bar graphs, line graphs & pie charts.

  • How to use camera to make 3D type.

  • Animating static images using parallax

  • Plus basic character animation.

  • + More…

What is the target audience?

Yes:

  • This course is for people who want to start earning money as a motion graphics designer.

  • This course is for beginners wanting to learn to use After Effects for motion graphics and infographics.

  • No previous After Effects or animation skills are necessary.

No:

  • This course is NOT for people who have a good understanding of After Effects already. This is for new people only.

Course duration 5 hours+ your study.

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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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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Transcript

Hey, welcome to this video, this video were going to cover something called motion blur. Motion blur is your secret source. Easing was cool, blurring is better. It just adds that believability because we've got some static type, it had that power pointy feel to it, we added some easing to give it a little bit of real world real life motion and motion blur is the next step to adding a bit of slickness to it. And it just means that when it’s moving, its blurring. Like it does in real life when something’s running really fast in front of you it blurs when it’s moving because we cant get a really crisp image of it. It happens on film with live action, were going to fake it with static text. There's no reason it should blur, other than it looks good.

To do it, its pretty easy, there's two things you need to turn on. You need to turn this button on here. This particular button turns it on globally. So if you hover above it watch, it says enables motion blur in all layers with motion blur switch to set. Alright so to preview it, its space bar. And you can see no motion blur. We've turned it on but nothing happens. So lets turn it on globally. That says I am prepared to do motion blur to the layers that you tell me. And that’s what we do, we've got two layers here I'm going to twirl this little arrow up to make it look nice and clean. You can see here, I can add motion blur. See the same little icon here to the squares underneath. So I can add it to this one, I can add it to this one underneath but it doesn’t move so it could be on or off, it doesn’t matter because its not moving. Anything you’ve animated with key frames you need to turn it on. So you’ve got to turn it on twice, there globally and you turn that one off afterwards. And now watch, lets get it back to the beginning. Be prepared, easing plus motion blur equals coolness. It just blurs while its moving, yes, you might be thinking that’s not as cool as Dan makes out, I love it.

To extreme it up a little bit because it’s not really moving that fast, watch this, its kind of (Dan’s sound effect) see even I was a tiny bit underwhelmed. What I'm going to do is twirl down this, find my key frames and to speed it up right, its taking nearly 2 seconds to get across here, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to do is move you my friend to one second, its going to be a lot faster because its got a shorter distance to cross. Watch this, now were talking motion blur. I'm going to shrink this one up as well so it’s about half a second, then (Dan’s sound effect) there we go, motion blur.

With it off, power pointy, with it on, super sexy. Nice. So motion blur is on for this, why would you have two buttons for it, it’s a bit silly. Its means that say you’ve got 100 layers here and don’t be afraid if you do get up to 50 layers in after effects its totally part of it if you’ve got lots of things animating around, that’s what happens, so what you can do or what motion blur does is it stretches the machine out a little bit in trying to blur it. So what you can do is say you're not really worried about the look of it, you're just technically doing some stuff and you're sick of it taking forever, you can say globally, even though were on for all of the layers, maybe on for 50 of the 100, you can turn it off globally just while you're previewing, just to slow stuff down. You’ve just got to make sure you turn it back on when you’ve finished to get that lovely smooth blurriness.

Alright, that’s how to add motion blur and that’s the second step in the two step process of making things look really slick in after effects. Were going to cover a bunch more stuff but when you're teaching yourself and you're doing basic type animation, turn those two on, bit of easing, bit of motion blur and you will look awesome.

Alright, see you in the next video.

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