Questions tagged [animation]
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What are motion graphics?
What are motion graphics? What software can I use to create them? What should someone trying to produce a video with motion graphics know?
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Footprint or breadcrumb animation
I'm after a very specific effect and I haven't found an effective way to accomplish it. Basically, I want dots to appear along a path and disappear over time. The dots should not move after they're ...
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Evolving lines with mirror effect
I would like to create evolving lines similar to those in this sequence (starting at 0:28):
I know how to reveal lines, but I struggle to make the line moving so ...
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In cartoons, what is created first - video or sounds?
In some modern cartoons the animation of face, particularly mouth, is very realistic - most of vowels are mimicked correctly and on-time by mouth movements. (Particularly I'm talking about Family Guy ...
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How can I add animated text to a video programmatically (from a script) for use as quality video introductions?
I have an educational video product. We currently have over 2000, available in different sizes, so roughly 6000 and counting.
The video introductions (title, description, instructors) were made by ...
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Which software application did they use to create LHC data processing animation?
I would like to know which software application did CERN use to create the LHC data processing animation?
I have some ideas for demo 3D animations and would like to ...
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Whiteboard animation: how to zoom and draw a motion?
I want to make a video that will mix a whiteboard drawing animation in the style of RSA Animate videos (so speeded-up drawings) and stop-motion. I think I'm almost ready to start but I still have two ...
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How do I make this object orbit around the center without making it turn
I have this atom that I want to animate in after effects (yes I know you have more than one electron in carbon, but that's not the point). I want this electron to orbit around the middle of the atom. ...
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How to make this vector animation?
I would like to make a demonstration animation like this...
As I am really ignorant about animation making, I even don't know how to describe it. I think this is ...
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Camera Is Shaking Slowly After Changing Its Position
In Unity 3D I have a series of camera movements, but some don't successfully complete. Instead of the camera coming to rest, it ends up vibrating around the target location.
I have the video of my ...
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How do you zoom in (animated) on a portion of your canvas?
I'm using After Effects to create a Motion graphic and I would like to make the animation zoom in on a specific point, do something and then zoom out again.
To clarify what I exactly try to achieve: ...
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I'm having trouble scaling strokes in After Effects
I am new to after effects and I am having trouble understanding scaling shapes. I have an initial shape ( image 1 ) that I wish to expand and animate to a wider shape ( image 2 ). But as you can see, ...
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How can encode video with images like these (overlay a video over a fixed image) with ffmpeg?
How can encode video with images like these help me ffmpeg ?
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Is possible to use this "map" as a mask? (After Effects)
I'm creating animations like the hearthstone golden cards,and I'm tired of masking everything bit by bit.
I know that the hearthstone team used masks (with colors) in order to make the animations,they ...
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Sci-Fi intro logo animation
I'm trying to make an intro in After Effects (I'm a beginner) and I was wondering if anyone could assist me in reproducing the following logo animation:
In order to dive into this topic and ...
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Which tools are most likely used to create animated video (i.e. corporate commercials)? [closed]
Animated video is sometimes very well done and extremely attractive and captivating. I would like to know what tools are typically used to create this kind of video. I specifically have in mind the ...
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Creating a stream of the same object between two points in AE?
I'm trying to create a small animated infographic of how the banking system works. I thought I would represent the flow of money between the banks with dollar bills moving along a path. What's the ...
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How were the "glowing lights" made for the classic The Simpsons episodes?
Today's episodes of The Simpsons are bleak, washed-out, standardized and soulless. But for the first several seasons, possibly even roughly up until the late 1990s, they clearly used a completely ...
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Has a realistic looking film ever been produced entirely virtually?
I know many examples of videos where an object or a person has been added after the recording (e.g. political propaganda or CGI characters in movies). I also know that animated movies are more or less ...
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How can loop animations with a different start and end point in after effects?
I use normally: loopOut('cycle') expression to loop a movement. But sometimes I want to loop an animation like this:
1-3 frames -> rotation 30deg
3x loop a full rotation
after looping -> add 10 ...
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After Effects - Audio Spectrum with Circles
I have a music video I'd like to make with 4 quarter-circles at each of the four corners of the screen. I would like them all to to "pop out" together (in sync) along with the music, without any audio ...
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How to reverse these keyframes in Adobe After Effects?
I'm actually new to learning the use of After effects but there's a mistake that I did about the keyframes, I should have placed the last keyframe to the first one which I would like to reverse these ...
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Precise Keyframing in Final Cut Pro X
I'm wondering how I can expand the transformation line like it's possible for the compositing. Can it be done? Where can I edit the connection between two keyframes from linear to ...?
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Is there any automated online service for making white board animation?
I want to know is there any website or software available to make white board animation as following?
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How to control animated gif speed when exporting from Premier Pro
I have got a sequence of 25 frames from a series of photos that I shot. I have imported the images into Premiere Pro and changed the speed/duration to 00.00.02.
When I preview the sequence in the ...
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Simple video animation for teaching purpose
I am teacher , I am teaching web technologies and programming languages ,sometimes i need explain some technologies by some animation .
here is an example https://vimeo.com/113530912
i wants know ...
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Determining original resolution of an upscaled digital image?
It is believed that anime is made at resolutions below 1080p.
most anime are [made in 720p].
Very few anime series are produced in native 1080p.
Yet if anime is sold on Blu-Ray, it is (usually) in ...
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After Effects quality drops
I am trying to make a animation. There is a 3D animation which is sharp, I need to put some layers over it with descriptions about some parts that are shown.
The original video is extremly sharp, but ...
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AE Expression: Define FontSize
I'm making a complicated watch UI with a lot of expressions linked to different values of the display.
As you can see from the image below, 9hrs isn't bonded to an expression yet, but it's graphically ...
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What software is required to make a simple animation clip like this?
I'm looking to create a very simple animation video, maybe 1-2 minutes long, with a 3D logo and text just kind of floating around and some lighting effects. I want to make something similar to this:
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Why do a lot of animation videos have wiggly lines?
You see this style often in animated videos, e.g. this one:
The outer borders/lines of the elements sort of wiggle (for want of a better word) at a high frequency, ...
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How to add simple textual animations to videos?
I want to add simple textual animations to videos, just like this one from Business Insider : https://www.facebook.com/228803477461289/videos/231065770568393/
What software do I need in order to ...
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How they did it? (3D-like screenshots with animation)
Here sample:
(from 20th second)
It clearly 3D render, as here we can see DoF effect with small defocus.
Also, it clearly not 2D transformations of screenshot, as ...
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Blur whole text and then "unblur" part of it
I have a text in after effects that I wish to first blur the whole thing and then animate it so that a part of the text is clear.
If I have the text Maecenas sed diam eget risus varius blandit sit ...
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Create video from a series of single frames and use original audio
I am looking for some advice on how best to create a video which is comprised of a series of single frames from an original piece of 30fps footage.
I can create the effect by making a screen ...
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How are motion graphics like this created?
A few days ago i was browsing a forum, and I came across this person's signature which was underneath their comment. I contacted them a few days ago because I was interested in how this sort of motion ...
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How to create a blinking effect in After Effects CC?
What I want to do is simple conceptually, but I am just not having success with actually doing it.
I am creating a short video snippet in After Effects, as part of a larger presentation. The video is ...
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Puppet tool - how do I make the arms stay attached to the same points on the body?
Trying to make following character's body wiggle a bit, using the puppet tool:
The face and arms are on separate layers as they will need to move independently. When the body moves via the puppet ...
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Relative Animation Presets
Is there any way to create an animation (a bubble for example, that rises up on the y axis and fades in from 0 to 100 opacity), that can be saved as an animation preset, then that can be added to ...
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Line animations
If you watch the above video at 29seconds, there's a line that is drawn around the number 1. Many of these animations are littered throughout this video (again at ~1:02) and I'm wondering how I can ...
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AE Counter Switch (Mins > Hs)
I'm trying to create an expression that changes source text from minutes to hours.
Here is an example of the graphic I'm animating:
As you can see the 3 hours counter is on hold, I want that to start ...
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What tools can I use for animating maps?
I know this is not the optimal type of question. Sorry for that. However I think it can be answered by listing some alternatives.
So I want to make videos about travel and I am looking for a tool for ...
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How can I reduce the size of a webm to 2MB?
Let's say that I have a webm of XMB, and I want to resize it to 2MB in order too upload it to some websites. How can I do it?
Is there a website? Can I downsize them in mass?
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Loss of quality in after effects 3D layer
I have a 2D image layer that looks great as a 2D layer. Both .png and .eps files are (near) pixel perfect. However when I convert the layer to 3D, there is a massive loss in quality. Is there a ...
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Does animation make use of any Artificial Intelligence?
I have always wondered if the animation technology used in film-making uses AI to any extent.
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How do I merge two shapes in one during an animation?
I've these shapes:
The first one has three path within, my question is how do I merge these three dots into the big one during an animation?
I saw some tutorials about reshape but when I've tried it, ...
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Masking Radio Waves in After Effects
I created a mask around one part of a radio wave in after effects, to hide that part of the wave. However, when I lowered the opacity of the mask, that left part of the wave doesn't disappear. I've ...
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Preserving Frame Rate
I'm a physicist with no experience in video production.
I work with satellite imagery and I have created timelapses where one frame corresponds to one minute. It matters I preserve the time/frame ...
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Reference Request: Camera Movements
In order to produce a new logo revealing animation I was just searching the web for useful reference pages dealing with advanced camera movements. By "Camera movements" I don't mean the basic tilting, ...
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How do I do this Text animation in Sony Vegas (..or AE)?
Sometimes, when I have a look at music videos, I see lyric texts coming up. They are shaped in a rectangle, with different sized words. An example is this, which I made quickly.
What is this effect ...
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