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Learn how to design a cool and minimalist logo animation using After Effects.
Discover techniques to create a clean and professional look for your logo animations.
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hello guys sof Tony here and in today's
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video we will be creating a minimal and
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clean logo animation inside of After
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Effects step by step and before we begin
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make sure to subscribe to my channel hit
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the like button and turn on the
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notification Bell so you don't miss any
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of my upcoming video clips and without
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any further delay let's dive into after
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effects and start creating this cool and
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creative logo
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animation all right we're here in After
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Effects and first like always let's
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create a new composition hit on this
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little icon or hit control or command
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plus n this is going to be final
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composition 90/20 by 1080 30 frames per
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seconds and for the duration I will go 7
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Seconds long it okay and let's create
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background go right click to create new
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solid layer this is going to be
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background Circle and very important
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step is to go 3840 by 2160 4K solid and
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then hit okay now let's animate this
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background Circle but before that let's
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select this solid layer hit Q on your
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keyboard and turn on titles and action
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save and while you're holding control
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shift and ALT on your keyboard let's go
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and select this ellipse tool control
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shift and ALT and draw a perfect circle
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from the center of our for composition
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let's go somewhere around here okay now
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select this option pen behind or hit Y
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on your keyboard and let's also select
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this background Circle and move the
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Anchor Point to maybe somewhere around
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here okay as you can see my snapping
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option is turned on and now go here to
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around 3 seconds hit R for rotation and
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let's create our first key frame and
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then go to around 0 seconds and let's go
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to around
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130 if you want to see opposite
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animation just instead of this 130 type
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minus
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130 okay now select both of the key
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frames hit F9 on your keyboard go to
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graph editor and draw a curve like this
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okay and if you can see curve like this
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just go right click and hit here edit
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speed graph okay now select both of the
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key frames hit control+ C to copy go to
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around maybe 4 seconds or somewhere
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around here and hit control+ V to paste
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it and then go right click key frame
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assistance and time reverse key frames
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now let's hit zero to see the animation
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this is our first part and as you can
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see this is our second part and this is
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looking good okay now let's also draw
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Perfect Circle here in the middle of our
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composition hit Q again or go and find
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this ellipse tool make sure that our
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fill color is set to this solid color
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and stroke to none and make sure to
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unselect everything here and go here to
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the to the center of the composition
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hold control shift and ALT and draw a
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perfect circle like this okay and then
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go here and effects and preset type here
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F effect Dragon drop on our shape o1
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let's also rename it Circle o1 okay go
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here in the fail effect and type here 21
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21 and 21 to get this shade of gray
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color hit okay and let's also drag and
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drop this F effect to our background
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Circle and let's type e f EF and EF to
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get this type of white color hit okay
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and now select the circle o1 I will
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close the effects control for now hit Y
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on your keyboard or go here on this span
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behind icon and let's also reposition
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this Anchor Point to maybe somewhere
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around here and as you can see my
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snapping option is turned on now let's
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make this circle o1 smaller maybe from 1
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second and 15 frames okay and now let's
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go to around maybe 2 seconds and 15
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frames hit R for rotation set up the
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first key frame and also while you're
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holding shift hit s to show scale
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parameter set up the key frame also for
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the scale parameter then go to around 1
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second and 15 frames and for the scale
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let's type here zero and for the
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rotation let's go to around 90 okay now
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grab all of the key frames hit F9 go to
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graph editor and let's draw a shape like
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this okay and now let's select all of
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the four key frames hit control+ C then
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go to around 4 seconds and 15 frames and
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paste it h control+ v and let's also go
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right click find here key frame
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assistance and select this option time
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reverse key frames let's also go here to
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the graph editor and draw the same curve
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like before something like
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this okay and now let's hit zero to see
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our animation this is our background
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animation and as you can see our middle
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shape is looking cool now let's select
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the circle o1 again go here in the
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effects and preset find drop shadow
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effect drag and drop onto the circle o1
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and for the distance let's type here 10
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and for the softness let's go to around
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50 and also for the color let's type
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here e f e f e f and then hit okay now
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let's duplicate this circle o1 for a few
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times hit control plus d move two frames
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ahead contrl plus d once again okay two
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frames ahead this is going to to be also
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Circle 04 2 frames ahead and the last
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one Circle 05 also two frames ahead and
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now when we hit zero we have our
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background animation and cool circles in
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the middle of the composition now what
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we can do is to select everything Circle
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01 all the way up to Circle 05 hit you
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to show all of the key frames and for
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this circle O2 reposition the key frames
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to somewhere around here Circle O3 to
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somewhere around here repeat the process
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for the rest Circle
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04 and also for the last one to go
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somewhere around here okay now hit zero
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and we have our animation in order and
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this is looking awesome now what we can
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do is to import our logo here in the
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scene as you can see I already have this
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logo for the example just Dragon drop
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here in the timeline okay make it
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smaller also maybe from 1 second and 15
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frames
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okay hit s maybe to go around 20
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according your needs it depends on your
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logo size maybe 21 somewhere around here
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use arrows on your keyboard if you need
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to reposition your logo and let's also
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hit contrl plus d for this circle5 move
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above our logo and this is going to be
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mat okay now let's go here to around 2
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seconds set up the position for our logo
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and set up the first key frame like so
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and move it up for this y parameter to
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maybe somewhere around here and let's go
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to around 3 seconds go right click and
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reset find here reset option also for
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the track met let's go and find Alpha
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mat for this mat option and then select
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all of the key frames hit F9 and go to
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graph editor and draw a curve like this
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okay now let's hit zero to show our
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animation and this is looking awesome
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now what we can do is to select both of
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the key frames hit also control+ C and
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then go to around maybe 3 seconds and 15
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frames paste it and also repeat the
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process go right click key frame
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assistance time reverse key frame and
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now as you can see we have our in
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animation and out animation and this is
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looking awesome now let's also draw
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another shape here in the final
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composition hit Q again or go here on
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this ellipse tool make sure to unselect
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everything then go again here to the
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center of the composition hold control
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shift and ALT and draw also perfect
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circle like this before this one just
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make sure that our stroke is set to two
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pixels and our fill is set to none okay
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our name this one to thin circle like
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this okay now hit s for this circle o1
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copy this scale parameter also make this
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thin circle smaller from maybe 1 second
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and 15 frames and also paste this scale
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parameter for this thin circle okay now
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hit you to show all of the key frames
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and delete those two last key frames and
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now as you can see we have also this
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animation of our another circle now go
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here in effects and preset find F effect
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drag and drop on the thin circle you can
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use also ey dropper to select the same
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color like before or hit
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212121 again here and as you can see our
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animation is looking cool now open up
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this Little Triangle in circle 01 find
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here add and then let's go and find here
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option trim pad go here on 1 second and
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15 frames open up this trim pad option
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set up the first key frame for start
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parameter and then go to 100% And also
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go here to maybe around 3 seconds and
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type here zero now select both of the
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key frames hit F9 go to graph editor and
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draw the same curve like before okay
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this is looking cool hit U again to show
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all the key frames grab just trim pad
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key frames do not go on scale hit
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control+ C and then go to around maybe 4
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seconds and paste it somewhere around
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here also go right click key frame
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assistance and hit here time reversed
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key frames open up graph editor and also
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let's draw the same curve like before
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okay and now in our finals let's hit
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zero we have cool in
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animation and also cool out animation
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this is looking awesome and for the
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final step let's also create here text
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layer hit control+ t or go here on this
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little icon horizontal type tool for the
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font I'm using this moner regular for
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the font size 37 and let's type here
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text your
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site. this is just random text of course
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you will type your own text go here in
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the facts and preset find fill again
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drag drop drop onto the yoursite.com
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textt layer and also use ey dropper now
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select this text again go here on align
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and align it to the center and if you
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can't find align option just go window
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and you will find align here use arrows
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on your keyboard to reposition according
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your needs to maybe somewhere around
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here okay now open up this Little
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Triangle go to animate find position and
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now go here on ADD option do not go here
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again on animate go on ADD property and
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find opacity and here let's also make
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further adjustments make this text layer
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smaller to maybe also 1 second and 15
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frames from somewhere around here for
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the position let's go minus
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120 and for the opacity go to zero Now
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open up this animator 01 find your range
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selector and for the offset set up the
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first key frame here at 1 second and 15
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frames okay and let's type Min - 100
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then go to to around maybe 3 seconds
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somewhere around here and let's go to
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around 100 now what we can do is to open
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up this Advanced option for the shape
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instead of square let's go to ramp up
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and for the E high and e low let's go to
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100% if you want to randomize order of
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our animation just hit here on now hit
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zero to show the animation and our
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animation is looking awesome to make
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sure that our animation is inside the
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boundaries of our shapes just hit contrl
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plus d for this circle o1 move this
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above let's rename this one to text mat
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and select this yoursite.com and find
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here Alpha inverted mat and this is
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looking awesome now hit U to show all of
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the key frames again select them hit
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control+ C and here from maybe 3 second
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and 15 frames paste it go right click
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key frame assistance time verse now
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let's hit zero again this is looking
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cool and our nice animation is here
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maybe to move this yoursite.com down a
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bit more and this is looking
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great all right guys that was everything
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for today's tutorial and this was really
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great technique to create your own logo
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animation you can use it of course in
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your own videos in your own project to
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make your video was even better looking
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Channel please hit that subscribe button
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and until next time stay creative and
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bye-bye
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sh
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