From the course: Animation for Social Media
Join today to access over 25,300 courses taught by industry experts.
Copying text from Illustrator to After Effects
From the course: Animation for Social Media
Copying text from Illustrator to After Effects
- [Instructor] The next stage in our social media video teaser is to add information about the event. Let viewers know when this music festival is taking place and how to get more info. So notice that we do have a text layer on screen that has all of the details. If I toggle its visibility on by pressing on its solo icon, we can see the hierarchy of the design. Music of course is our title, and then the word festival next we have the date and finally below in the smallest size we have the website address for this event. Now be mindful that when people will see this, they won't have a lot of time to process all of this information so our job as motion designers is to help them by guiding their eyes on screen. And this is what we're going to do in this chapter, starting with recreating these elements as native text layers inside After Effects, which will allow us to animate each one of them individually. So to do so…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.