to make animations look better and more natural. There's a couple of things we can do in after effects. One thing I want you to do is wave your hand in front of your face right now. I know it sounds a little silly but just wave it in front of your eyes. And do you notice anything about the motion of your hand? It's really blurry. That's called motion blur. And it's just natural that things in our natural environment when they move the way our brain processes them, there's a little bit of blur. What's different in this animation is that at every single moment at every single frame our square is perfectly sharp and that's not natural when it's supposed to be moving. So you can add motion blur in after effects. And that's one of these other columns in the timeline. Is this one with these three little dots and if you hover over it it's called motion blur. And all you have to do is check that button and enable it for our entire timeline. And that's what these buttons up here do. So you see ...

this three little dots, one that's enabling motion blur. And so now you'll notice that as soon as I check that on you get a little bit of blur on the edges of this square and as I go through and scrub through you see that little blur and that's a little bit of motion blur. That makes it look a little more natural. If I make this animation even faster. So I bring all of these key frames into half a second which I can do by selecting all by clicking and dragging over and then selecting one of them and dragging them to the left. Then play through this. You get even more motion blur because the faster and animation the more motion blur you get off on. I typically like to add motion blur to most of my animations. The other thing that you can do to make your motion look more natural is playing with the speed right now between these two key frames. This square is moving and rotating and scaling up at the same speed throughout this entire animation. So from this frame to this frame it's moving at the same frame speed as from this frame to this frame. But in nature things ramp up. If you bounce a ball on the floor it starts off slow and then it will speed up and then it'll go slower as it reaches its resting point. If you start running you don't start running at your top speed, you ramp up and so to ramp up animations. What we can do is called easy ease in after effects. Let me just do that with position. So let me press P to bring up position and now I just have my key frames here to add easy ease to a key frame or to a set of key frames. Select those key frames or Just for one right click the key frame go to key frame assistant And then choose easy ease. Or you can just select them and press f. nine on your keyboard. So that's what I'll do now with that easy ease you get more of a pop to it. It's that speed ramp but it also has this sort of like pop action that I think looks pretty cool and looks a little bit more natural. If we extend it to one second it'll look a little bit better. But you'll also know that now when I extended the position to one second I didn't extend the scale or rotation to one second. So I want to do that. So what I can do to quickly bring up all the key frames for this layer is press you you on my keyboard and that brings up all the key frames. Now I can take my scale and rotation and move it to the right to one second. And if I want I can ease ease these other key frames so I can select all of these. Press F. nine or right click and choose easy ease. Now with that motion I think it looks a lot more natural and you can see it kind of slows into that final resting spot in the next lesson and we'll take it one step further using an advanced technique that I think you'll understand. You just have to dive right into it and it will help you change up the speed ramp of your easy ease

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Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral

Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral

Lesson Info

13. Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral

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