Animation for Typographic Compositions

Overview

“You will start with this simple animation but it is a result for which I will teach you to animate the text through a path or vector path in After Effects. We will also animate the smiley so that the piece is conceptually more interesting.”

In this video lesson Holke 79 addresses the topic: Happy-Sad: A basic exercise in After Effects, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animation for Typographic Compositions. Learn the techniques to animate your typographic designs and share them on social media.

Partial transcription of the video

“Happy - Sad. A basic After Effects exercise Now we're going to try moving typography. We're going to move on to After Effects to learn a basic, simple technique that will give us an attractive result. Let's begin. Let's create this animation I mentioned where we see the words happy and sad and we have a smiley face and sad face. Go to After Effects, create a new composition, we assume we want it in square format, for Instagram, for example. Set it to 1080 by 1080 and here we enter 25 frames per second and give it a duration of 12 seconds. Remember you can change these later. First let's see...”

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Course summary for: Animation for Typographic Compositions

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (1101)
• 45455 students
• 5 units
• 20 lessons (3h 8m)
• 1 download

• Category

  3D & Animation, Calligraphy & Typography

• Software

  Adobe After Effects, Cinema 4D

• Areas

  3D Animation, Animation, Kinetic Typography, Typography