let's move on to some other properties. So to get rid of all these key frames, remember we just click the stopwatch again but once we do that it actually stays at the value where our timeline indicator Is basically. So if I click this there it's going to stay at 0%. So I'm going to move that back up to 100%. So let's bring down all of our transform properties. Let me just make this a little bit bigger, Fit up to 100%. Alright so now you know how to set key frames so it's rather simple to create a position animation. So say we want our square to end up here, let me take my selection tool, we'll set a key frame for our position so decide what time you want it to end at this position. So we'll do one second and set a key frame for position there. Maybe we want it to pop up from beneath this composition itself. So I went back to zero seconds and I'm going to drag this down and you'll see as I start dragging because I have a position key frame we get this sort of line with little dots stret...

ch between the two points. You'll also notice that as I drag down it's kind of hard to make it precisely going perfectly vertically up without going from side to side. Well to lock it in place, Press the shift button and as I do that now it's kind of locked in place like so and it locks her horizontally or vertically. So now if I drag down below our composition, then let go and then let me bring in my work area so we can see this animation. And then press the space bar bar, we have this animation of this square popping up. Cool! Right, We can actually add multiple animations to the same object and that's how we get things to be more intricate. So maybe we want it to grow while it's moving up on the screen. So at one second let's set a key frame for scale at 100 and then go back and sometimes I like to leave it on. I don't want to go back to zero seconds because I can't see the square. So I'll just go somewhere right here in the middle where I still see the square. I'll decrease the scale to where I think I want it. And then because I don't want it to just go like pop up and then all of a sudden grow, I wanted to be growing the whole time, I'll just drag this key frame for scale all the way to the left. And I did that just so that I can see what I'm working with. So let's play through this so it's growing as it's appearing on the screen. And then let's just add rotation. So let's rotate. So this will be the final resting spot at this rotation. We'll go back again and let's rotate to the left. Now the problem that I see is that our anchor point isn't in the center of this object. So what happens is it rotates from that anchor point which is a little off center, which actually looks kind of cool. But if we wanted it to be from the center, you're going to have to do a little extra work. We'll take this pan behind tool. So let's move this back to the center and then what we'll have to do is see where the position starts. So if we go down to where the position starts, we have to put our timeline indicator over this key frame or it's not going to work. And then we take our selection tool and let's move this down. So now it's rotating from the center and it's moving straight up. And remember what I just did. I press the space bar to move my composition up or down. You'll notice that outside of our composition that we still see the outline of our square. And this is just a way that after effects, lets us sort of see what's happening outside of our composition. When we have a layer selected. When I don't have that layer selected. You see the square. But you don't see the path that it's on. A good rule of thumb though, is if you want your animation to be from the center of an object, make sure that you set your anchor point first. All right now we have this pretty cool animation of the square popping up. What if we want to change the rotation? This is just a reminder that if we want to make it rotate even more and we want to change this first one. Remember we can't just go in the middle of these two key frames and change the rotation. Say we want it from negative 36 to negative 94 Because what's happening is now it's going from negative 79 2 -94 and then back to zero. You'll want to go all the way to the first key frame in. Now with our time indicator on the first frame, key frame Set the rotation to whatever you wanted to start at like 90. For another way you can do. That is just by deleting this key frame and then moving the one that you just set all the way to the left where it started or really wherever you want. So that has a little bit more of a rotation. And that's how you change key frame values. After the fact in the next lesson, we're going to be making our animation look better and a little bit more natural

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Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations

Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations

Lesson Info

12. Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations

Lessons

Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates

Understand the After Effects Workspace

Starting a New Composition

CC 2018 Update - Starting a New Composition from Footage

Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline

Using the Basic After Effects Tools

Create a Perfect Circle, Alignment, and Shape Colors

Working in the Timeline

Layer Properties

Quiz: After Effects Basics

Animating in After Effects

Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations

Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral

Using the Graph Editor

Challenge - Bouncing Ball

Solution - Bouncing Ball

Quiz: Animating with Keyframes

Working with Solid Layers and the Ken Burns Effects

Working with Shape Layers, Strokes, and Paths

Adding Layer Styles like Drop Shadow, Bevel, and Gradients

Shape Effects - Trim Path Animations, Wiggle, and Zig Zag

Quiz: Shapes and Solid Layers

Track Matte Animations - Make Layers Appear and Disappear

Using Pre-Compositions to Group Layers

Easily Reverse Complicated Animations

Playing with Time

Blend Modes

Stabilize Shaky Footage

CC 2018 Update - Previewing and Favoriting Fonts

CC 2019 Update - Responsive Design Time

CC 2019 Content Aware Fill

CC 2019 Create Motion Graphic Templates

Quiz: Important After Effects Skills

Intro to Motion Graphics Projects

Clean Lower Third

Logo Reveal Animation Bumper

Colorful Transition

Text with Mask Path Animation

Text Bubble Animation

Weather App 1

Weather App 2

Weather App 3

Quiz: Motion Graphics Projects

Flat Animation Challenge

Phil Designs his Flat Animation Scene

Animating Fireworks with the Repeater Effect

Removing Green Screen Background

Adding a Background that Matches the Foreground

Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool

Adding Movement with the Ripple Effect

Quiz: Flat Animation Challenge

Intro to 3D

Swinging 3D Text Animation

Build Out Your 3D Composition

Animating Our 3D Scene

Create Stars in After Effects

Quiz: Green Screen (Chromakeying)

Using the Rotoscope Tool

Cleaning Up Your Edges

Finishing Our Rotobrush Animation

Quiz: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool

Easy Screen Replacement with Masks

Replacing a Screen Version 2

Screen Replacement with Mocha

CC 2019 Update - Native Mocha AE Plugin

Quiz: Rotoscoping

Using the Puppet Pin Tool

Animating Your Puppet Pins

Animated Blinking Eyes

Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds

CC 2018 Update - Advanced Puppet Pin Tool

Quiz: Screen Replacements

Applying Text Animation Presets

Create a Page Turn Effect with CC Page Turn