You're reading from Creative Motion Mastery with Adobe After Effects Learn the ins and outs of motion graphics, post-production, rotoscoping, and VFX

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804617281

Length 332 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

After Effects

Concepts

Motion Graphics

Author (1):

Vishu Aggarwal

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Working with Motion Graphics

2. Chapter 1: Getting to Know the User Interface and Workflow FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Applying Effects and Presets to Create Animated Graphics

4. Chapter 3: Deep-Dive into Text Animations

5. Chapter 4: Animating Shape Layers

6. Chapter 5: Adding Motion to Photoshop and Illustrator Graphics

7. Chapter 6: Creating Motion Graphic Templates for Premiere Pro

8. Part 2: Post-Production and Visual Effects

9. Chapter 7: Color Correction and Color Grading

10. Chapter 8: Rotoscoping and Mask Tracking Techniques

11. Chapter 9: Chroma Keying

12. Chapter 10: Working with Particle Simulations

13. Part 3: 2D and 3D Tracking, and Rendering

14. Chapter 11: Working with 2D and 3D Tracking

15. Chapter 12: Exporting and Managing Projects

16. Index

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Creating an info chart

Now, we will create an animated bar chart with text and path line animation, and we will learn how to easily control the path vertex points using the Null object in After Effects. Follow these steps to implement this:

First, create a new composition. This new composition will have the same settings we used previously, in the Creating shape layers section, which are Full HD, a frame rate of 25, and a duration of 10 seconds. Change the composition name to info chart and click OK.
Go to the Tools panel and select the Rectangle tool. Make sure the Fill color is set to white, and change Stroke to None. Then, make sure that Bezier Path is deselected as you do not need it for this shape.