Lynda - Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Creating Animated Logos

MP4 | Video: 1280x720 | 160 kbps | 44 KHz | Duration: 02:33:21 | 1.47 GB

Genre: eLearning | Language: English

Everybody wants an animated logo these days, which is great news for freelance video editors. But what if you're new to motion graphics?

Motion Graphics for Video Editors breaks the workflow down into easily understandable chunks, showing how to use the tools most video editors already have—in Adobe Creative Cloud—to complete basic motion graphics tasks. In this course, Rich Harrington introduces a few different ways to get and prep logos that are the right format and resolution, and use Photoshop or Illustrator to convert the files into layered images that are ready to animate. The real work then takes place in After Effects, where Rich shows how to animate the logo and add reflections, cast shadows, patterns, texture, and glows that will impress your future clients.

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Topics include:

Acquiring logo files

Understanding what file formats are supported

Sizing a vector logo in Photoshop or Illustrator

Saving a logo with transparency

Importing a logo into After Effects

Animating layers

Extruding a logo in 3D

Rendering the animation

Creating cast reflections and cast shadows

Filling a logo with a pattern

Adding rays and glows