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erics44597444
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July 15, 2018
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high level logo animation advice

  • July 15, 2018
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Hi there,

I've been teaching myself After Effects but have hit a wall and would appreciate some advice. Here is logo we created for a client. I would like to apply an animation to each dot in the logo and have them drop into/coalesce/fade  into place.  I've used a few masking techniques that would work but I was hoping something that would be organic. Is there an effect that I can use for this or would I need to use an expression. I'm pretty good at figuring things out on my own, I'm just hoping someone can nudge me into a direction.  Thanks in advance for your help.

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    P.M.B
    P.M.B
    Legend
    July 16, 2018

    Yes it depends if the dots are a single image then in addition to previous suggestions you could AEs paint tools to "erase" each dot and then revers the whole shibang so they fade in instead of erase. Very intensive but some people like that sort of thing   Or you can do that to most of the dots and then use some roughen edges to fade in the smaller stuff.  Duplicate the layer, masking it off into two parts

    Then put the roughen edges on the tiny innermost dots and hand erase the larger ones with paint tool.

    If there's vector layers then there's simple opacity/scale keyframe on all of them then offsetting of keyframes or in points as Dave suggested.  There's a great PWYW script called RIFT that is pretty versatile & useful Rift - aescripts + aeplugins - aescripts.com

    If you're willing to spend a bit $90 there's a super cool plugin by Motion Boutique called Pastiche that would be perfect for creating and animating the design procedurally with ability to make fine adjustments manually after the fact.  Pastiche is just really, really cool & the very first I thought of when I looked at the design.  It will take a couple of hours study at most,  They provide a comprehensive tutorial & it's a pretty simple system.

    Pastiche - aescripts + aeplugins - aescripts.com

    ~Gutterfish
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    Dave Merchant
    Legend
    July 15, 2018

    Assuming the position of each dot is predefined - so they can't just be random - then animating each one is technically possible but will require a bunch of work, or some scripting to automate.

    If each dot is a separate layer in an Illustrator file, then they can be imported into AE as layers and you can apply a fade/blur transition to every one, then randomly offset the in-points. AE can handle hundreds of layers in a comp, it just runs slowly. You can script both the application of the effects and the offsetting.

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    Rick GerardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 16, 2018

    I would suggest something like Shatter in a separate composition. It will take a bit to get used to the controls but you could create a custom shatter map, get the O in your logo to shatter and fly toward the camera, then pre-compose that and enable time remapping to reverse the shatter to an assemble from the dots.

    Another way would be to invest in Trapcode Form or Particular, or even Muse to create the effect. Any of those 3rd party effects will take a few hours to figure out and master but they are a lot more flexible than shatter.

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