Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2019 Release), First Edition

6. Shift-click to select both layers in the Timeline panel. 7. If the Character panel isn’t open, choose Window > Character t ...

You still have a lot of animation to fit into this composition, so you will speed up the effect by 1 second. 8. Go to 6:00, and ...

Note It doesn’t matter where the current-time indicator is located when you edit the text of this layer. Currently, the text is ...

change the value to 0. 5. Drag the current-time indicator across the time ruler between 7:10 and 8:10. The letters expand as the ...

3. Next to the Text property group name, click the Animate pop-up menu, and choose Skew. A property group named Animator 2 appea ...

About text animator groups A text animator group includes one or more selectors and one or more animator properties. A selector ...

6. Go to 8:20, and change the Skew value to 0 to set the final keyframe. 7. Click the Skew property name to select all of the Sk ...

At this point, all the other text is onscreen, so you can position the “directed by” line accurately. 2. Select the Horizontal T ...

12. Preview the animation, and then hide the Position property. It’s simple, but effective. The text moves in from the left side ...

13. Preview the animation again. The timing is better, but now the car overlaps the text at the beginning. One more adjustment s ...

Review answers 1 In many ways, a text layer is just like any other layer in After Effects. You can apply effects and expressions ...

4 Working with Shape Layers Lesson overview In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following: Create custom shapes. Customiz ...

PROJECT: ANIMATED ILLUSTRATION Shape layers make it easy to create expressive backgrounds and intriguing results. You can animat ...

After Effects opens to display a blank, untitled project. 5. Choose File > Save As > Save As, and then navigate to the Les ...

General (macOS). Select Center Anchor Point In New Shape Layers, and click OK. The anchor point is the reference point After Eff ...

Similarly, you can change the color and width of the stroke of a shape by modifying its Stroke settings in the Tools panel. Clic ...

The star’s edge is too jagged. You’ll change the settings for a subtler effect. 3. Expand Wiggle Paths 1. Then change the Size t ...

1. Press the Home key or move the current-time indicator to the beginning of the time ruler. 2. Select the Star 1 layer in the T ...

8. Press F2 or click an empty area in the Timeline panel to deselect all layers. Then adjust the Rotation and Scale properties f ...

After Effects creates a new composition named Starscape that contains the seven star shapes; the new composition replaces the la ...