Animating Icons in Adobe After Effects

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Learn to animate icons in this beginner focussed lesson. From basic write on and simple pop techniques to more complex animations building with flow and rhythm. This short lesson is an introduction to many icon animation methods. There is a lot of examples to get through, so if you want to know more about any area specifically, let me know and we'll do a follow-up.
1:41 importing and notes on style
3:38 write on techniques
6:18 pop on techniques
9:42 build on concepts
12:16 faking depth
Expressions used in order of appearance...
Input phase of colorama: time*360/5
Maintain stroke width when scaling: value/(Math.abs(transform.scale[0])/100)
If you have any questions just let me know in the comments!
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@lawlelulaylow 3 жыл бұрын

You manage to pack so many techniques and explain them so well in such short videos. Just wow, thank you!

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

I'm happy to hear it's a good format for a video. I like cramming in as much as we can in these things.

@marykirmo 2 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial. Lots of great suggestions. I’m particularly fascinated by your moving the colored bars to offset the key frames as that seems radically time saving and I’ve not seen anyone do it quite that way before. 🤯🤯I’m still self taught and lead by my imagination first. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@heinschultz8970 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome tut! Thanks. Loved the "move the stroke outside the group" trick. Defs gonna use that in future.

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Clever hacks of the hierarchy are always great :)

@matoflynn 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I wanted to know more about, thank you

@TimVanDerLeeden-eo1ru Жыл бұрын

Wow this is so awesome, I just started with after effects and I was happy that i understood keyframes and the basic transform options. I have so much to learn... Great video!

@marcusivo 3 жыл бұрын

Overlord is amazing, paid for itself several times over already.

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

It really is the gift that keeps on giving.

@jkell42 3 жыл бұрын

Great job! Such beauty in simplicity. My favorite is the snow globe

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

It might be mine too :) or maybe the box. It's one of the two.

@Daniel700 3 жыл бұрын

Extraordinary tut! Thk you so much!

@chimchase 3 жыл бұрын

WOW, I've been using After Effects for years and had no idea you could create a ramp using that method. For trickery I used Light Sweeps. Thanks as always!

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

Our old buddy colorama is always there with the hookups.

@leolego2 Жыл бұрын

this is like an ultimate tutorial. It's amazing

@Mathing 3 жыл бұрын

Cool stuff! I've checked your works on your website and the (fake?) 3D movements using 2D stuff were AMAZING! Could use more tutorials on that♥

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. I'll bump that up the list :)

@stefanieandersen 3 жыл бұрын

@@ECAbrams Really looking forward to a fake 3D tutorial!

@zahraranjbarian3946 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing ! I really wanted to see the project file cz that can help so much in understanding these techniques better

@andrewbrightwell914 3 жыл бұрын

Great! Thank you!

@sblga 3 жыл бұрын

I can always learn something new from you.

@nocontextgonzalo 3 жыл бұрын

best channel on youtube back at it again

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

I'm at it always :)

@kirillzotin1983 10 ай бұрын

Just astonishing! Thank you

@ECAbrams 10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@ChrsHstn10 11 ай бұрын

the snowglobe is beautiful

@Riaan1906 2 жыл бұрын

awsome tutorial

@chenriva9105 3 жыл бұрын

very high quality content!

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

@drive80studios 3 жыл бұрын

I think I learned 5 new things in this video.

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Mission accomplished around here then :)

@javadahmadi 3 жыл бұрын

Cool video as always.

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

thanks Javad!

@javadahmadi 3 жыл бұрын

@@ECAbrams I used your promo code for YI.

@zelalemtadesse 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot. It gives useful ideas...

@EvanFotis 3 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial and narrating style! What would your solution be for a constant stroke width for shapes that rotate in 3d? Once at 90 degree angle on the Y axis , they disappear, and even layer style stroke, while does keep them visible, makes them thicker when they return.

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

true 3d with consistent strokes is a challenge for sure. This is why things like the toon shader in c4d are so helpful. At a certain angle there are no pixels so there is nothing to grab on to for making the edge. Would precomping the rotating thing help?

@karwadev7528 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing...... 🖤🖤🖤

@Mrelisha999 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

@thebicycleman8062 2 жыл бұрын

@ecabrams any chance we can get this project file from the tutorial? Or a place we can buy this exact project file? THANKS!

@ECAbrams 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately no. The license for these icon assets does not extend to derivative sales in that way.

@imrulkayes4623 3 жыл бұрын

Would love to see the Icon animation part 2-10. Please make it.

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

All icon animations all the time :)

@DaveChapFilms 3 жыл бұрын

I’d love a breakdown of that rotating box in the future. :)

@maheshjanitha 3 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial. Really helpful. If you have free time, could you do a separate tutorial of build on concepts and faking depth?

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. I'll put them on the list here.

@maheshjanitha 3 жыл бұрын

@@ECAbrams thank you so much 🙏

@maxmagnus777 3 жыл бұрын

Hi love the tutorial, would love to see more about the initial part on effects that you used. Is "write on" a term I should know about?

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

"write on" refers to a group of techniques rather that the specific name of an effect. It means any time something looks like it's being written on. This might be text, brush strokes, lines of any kind really. I would say it's a pretty common short hand in the motion design space from the past decade+ of working in it. There are a few tutorials about these techniques on this very channel actually.

@maxmagnus777 3 жыл бұрын

@@ECAbrams so it is not kinetic typography? what is the difference?

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

@@maxmagnus777 kinetic typography is just a fancy way of saying "moving text". Write on techniques can be a part of kinetic typography. But kinetic typography is larger than write on techniques, and write on techniques are not exclusive to typography as you can see when we apply it to icons that have no textual elements. Does that make sense?

@maxmagnus777 3 жыл бұрын

@@ECAbrams kind of yeah, so it is kind of everything in motion design except logo design? Anyways, thanks for mentioning that this area exists in your channel, I've qued up your videos explaining it for later. Cheers :D

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

@@maxmagnus777 That really depeds on how you define motion design. Many consider anything that moves in a design context to be a part of motion design. An icon in an app. The opening titles of a film. An explainer video. The menus on TVs at McDonalds. Sometimes it's icons, sometimes it's logos, sometimes it's characters, sometimes it's text, sometimes it's just abstract shapes. To some people motion design means the c4d mograph module, or simulations in Houdini. To someone else it's lower 3rds in premiere. It's many things to many people, and a very large space to explore.

@DonatoGreco 3 жыл бұрын

could you please add the expressions to the description of this very nice tut ?

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

I knew I would forget something. They should be in the description now.

@DonatoGreco 3 жыл бұрын

@@ECAbrams very kind of you

@199rajesh 2 жыл бұрын

Didn't understand the scale effects can you make dedicated short video for that.

@cyejames 3 жыл бұрын

So I have a question kind of off topic but hopefully you can answer if you see this. Is there a way (expression or not) that when you add roundness to a (rectangle for eg) and you scale it on either the X or Y axis only... that you can stop the ends from looking so warped? like this (i.ibb.co/6WB2yyC/Capture.png) Thanks

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

I would use size instead of scale to maintain the roundness but increase the size. Is that not possible in your case?

@cyejames 3 жыл бұрын

@@ECAbrams I'm creating a template so I'm adding an expression to the size to allow the user to adjust it. Is there really not any other way around it? Thanks for your response.

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

@@cyejames Well, at the base level, what's happening? If the goal is to grow something horizontally and maintain the roundness, but you have additional user input on the size, then the solution would be to combine two inputs into the size. We cannot scale unevenly without deforming because that is the function of scale. Instead, you would either need to apply rounding after the scaling or not use the scale. To round after scale, you would need to be using a different method like maybe a stroke on layer style, or perhaps an amount of blurring and clamping. But certainly, those may not be ideal for the rest of your look. I recommend looking at why size is not appropriate in this case and seeing if there is a way to make it appropriate.

@cyejames 3 жыл бұрын

@@ECAbrams Got you. I will try to use the stroke and see what I get with that. I Appreciate your time. 👍

@paulcrc 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent video, but I was wondering how you would export these icons? With the transparent background. I can't find a method that doesn't export a 5 seconds, 3 Giga video.

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

Well, what container do you want them in? A gif? A Json? where do they need to be used?

@paulcrc 3 жыл бұрын

@@ECAbrams For a gif, or for stream overlays :)

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

@@paulcrc For Stream overlays you might want WebM video. But you can export gif using media encoder, or even some external plugins like Gif Gun.

@paulcrc 3 жыл бұрын

@@ECAbrams Well, many thanks!

@mehdisalehani Жыл бұрын

I'm having a hard time coming up with animation ideas like this when I want to break them down or it takes a long time for me to come up with it, is this normal? It's been a year since I started motion and I'm a self taught I don't know exactly where I'm at.

@ECAbrams Жыл бұрын

First, a year is not a lot of time. You need experience and you need a process. Nothing is easy when you aren't used to doing it. But second, people who can generate many versions or alternatives and can do it quickly can do so because they have practiced the skill of coming up with ideas. It's no more mystical or unknowable than that.

@mehdisalehani Жыл бұрын

@@ECAbrams thank you for all the help 🌹I really appreciate it ✌🏼

@jaysonfontela5761 2 жыл бұрын

💖

@sheep178china Жыл бұрын

너무 빠르다....ㅡㅡ;;

@hosseineditor2165 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this tutorial I wish you will explain the idea of such these motion of icons and teach them from scratch. It's so good that you thech them briefly but AE is always a complicated for most of people bacuae it's not just program especially motion design

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

could have been about an hour of a tutorial I suppose. What there one in particular you were interested ing? I can always do a followup video.

@aliabdi7122 3 жыл бұрын

hey buddy , thank you for your top level quality tutorials , there is a free script for illustrator " Jet-Layer X" that help to make layers from sub-layers.

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

Is that different from “release to layers sequence”?

@choiski2799 2 жыл бұрын

Kinda slow it down a little bit :) Beginner here

@ECAbrams 2 жыл бұрын

I would recommend watching on lower speeds, or, if there is a part that you fine specifically vexing, let me know and I'll try to clarify here in the comments.

@OspreySoul 3 жыл бұрын

Might want to check on your mic. There's a high pitched ringing/buzzing noise when you speak.

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. I'll look into it.

@artemmentiy7107 3 жыл бұрын

Why are there still 20k views?

@PurelySnowable 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video, but please fix your mic!!

@ECAbrams 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. I probably can't hear the range the issue is in. But there was nothing on the frequency display during recording so I'm at a loss for where or how this noise folks are talking about was introduced.