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Overview

The long awaited dynamic graph creation is here! After Effects now supports the linking of data exported from software such as Microsoft Excel, where the data exported to a JSON format can now be linked and displayed in infinite scenarios within Adobe After Effects CC 2018.

I this short course, I’ll go over how we can animate a graph within Adobe After Effects CC 2018, we’ll go over exporting a graph to JSON format so we can work with it, we’ll also write an expression within After Effects to accurately display data from our JSON file. 

Jump in, teach yourself the newest After Effects abilities so you stay on top of your animation game.


What are the requirements?

  • You will need a copy of Adobe After Effects CC 2018 or above. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.
  • No previous After Effects or animation experience is needed.
 

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

Hi there, my name is Daniel Walter Scott. I am an Adobe Certified Instructor for bringyourownlaptop. It's time to talk about connecting data to After Effects to help drive your animation. This example is what we'll create. It's looking at the averages for temperatures in Dublin where I currently live. The cool thing about the animation is that it's a chart driven by spreadsheet data. Now why is that cool? It's that, once I have done all my animation like I have here, where I've got all my Styles going, I can easily relink to another file, I'll do that now.

At the moment we're showing Dublin, watch here, it's Dublin, it's got the year, and it's got this data. Let's have a little look, super quick, super easy. Replace with my home country. New Zealand, Auckland is where I'm from. Watch this, hit 'space bar', look, line chart changes. All the data changed, the name changed. The year I'm looking at is the same, so that stays the same. Super quick, super easy, makes me super home sick because it's warmer all the year around at home. It's okay, Dublin has all the Guinness, that will keep you warm.

So if you are newish to After Effects check out my full course where we cover all sorts of data animation, not just this line chart. Check that out on bringyourownlaptop.com. If you're experienced in After Effects especially with Expressions, you'll be flying after this tutorial very quick.

First thing is, you need to have Adobe After Effects CC 2018 or above. We'll work on the earlier ones. If you want to play along exactly, download the exercise files. They are free, there'll be a link down in the description. You can go and grab those, and play along with me. On the download page, it will be called something like Data Animation using After Effects in JSON. I feel like that's what I call it anyway. So let's go and make this thing, and let's go make a new project, and I'll meet you over there. Let’s get started.

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