After Effects Animation – Let’s Get Started
October 30th, 2009 admin
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One of the best things about After Effects is while you can create very complex animations, it is used for some of the most famous Hollywood character animations we know, you can also create very simple, useful and usable animations on your very first day. Learning any new tool or technique, it is always helpful to establish the ‘fundamentals’, the basic tools that form the building blocks for this tool and in After Effects or any timeline based animation tool, the basics are stopwatches and layers.
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