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Looping Animated Scenes in Adobe After Effects

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About Looping Animated Scenes in Adobe After Effects

Welcome

Class Project

What is a Loop?

How to Use Loops

Planning Your Loop

Seamlessness

Working with GIFs

Tour of the Project File

Loop Expressions

Apply Loop Expressions: Seaweed

Overlapping Action

Loop the Wave Warp Effect

Animate Other Seaweed

Apply Loop Expression: Angelfish

Apply Loop Expression: Other Fish

Advanced Loop Expressions

Loop Compositions: Seaweed

Loop Compositions: Fish

Loop Compositions: Sporadic Fish

Add Final Details

Animate School of Fish

Render a Video

Render a GIF

Wrap-Up

What You Will Learn?

  • Learn how to create seamlessly looping animations for websites, social media, or as part of longer, narrated animations..
  • Animations that loop can be mesmerizing! There’s just something satisfying about watching and making looping animations. But, if you’ve ever thought about trying to make an entire animated scene loop seamlessly, then you know that it can be overwhelming to figure out how to time everything just right..
  • While this class will have step-by-step instruction in After Effects, it's much more than that. I'll explain the thought process behind the techniques used, to help you think like a motion designer and enable you to apply these ideas to your future work..
  • In the first part of this class, we’ll talk about the conceptual side of making looping animations and discuss best practices. You'll learn:.
  • Then we’ll dive into After Effects to animate a looping underwater scene. You can download a partially animated After Effects file (from the "Projects and Resources" tab) so that we can focus on making these animations loop. You'll learn how to:.
  • Plus a lot of time saving tips!.
  • This class is for intermediate motion designers. If you’ve never used After Effects before, first check out my orientation video. I'd also recommend checking out one of my beginner classes first:.
  • By the end of this class, you'll have the skills and know-how to tackle simple to complex looping animations and understand when to use different techniques to work smarter, not harder..
  • After this class, check out some of my other classes:.
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