Animate Like VOX - After Effects Tutorial

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In this lengthy video I go over how to make Vox style videos by highlighting some of the techniques they use. More specifically, we will be working with the 3D camera in After Effects and use it to animate articles, timelines, and a lower third. The point of this video is to teach how you can utilise some of the simplest features in After Effects to tell a story. I want to emphasise that I don’t think you should straight up copy what Vox or anyone else does BUUT there is a lot you can learn through replicating and testing out new techniques.

Anyways, I hope you learned something new from this video or at least just enjoyed following along!

As always, thank you for watching.

Feel free to skip around:
00:00 - Intro
00:11 - Result Preview
00:21 - Purpose of The Tutorial
00:38 - Hopping Into After Effects
00:45 - 1st Effect Article in 3D Space
04:44 - 2nd Effect Animated Timeline
05:06 - Designing The Timeline
06:28 - Animating The Timeline
15:10 - 3rd Effect Animated Lower Third
20:18 - End Result

The equipment:
Sony a7iii
Tamron 28-75
Cinebloom 10%
Deity V-MIC D3
Tascam DR-10L
Peak Design Travel Tripod - Aluminium
Amaran 100D + Neewer Softbox

Mac Studio Max
Asus ProArt 27” Monitor

Music Used:
Yuval Vilner -Nocturne in E Flat Major Op 9 No 2

[TarikTuts]

Oh man, I admire your Videos, you're one of the best tutorial guys in the industry!

[ROY-tiwc]

Mapal my man you are really talented and have truly honed your skill well, loved this breakdown a lot.

[Skymography]

Love the way you walked through each section, it made it easy to follow and I think for people who are intimidated by After Effects, this makes it super manageable. Not to mention good effects for everyone to have in their arsenal!!

Also, that aperture animation at 3:42 was *chefs kiss*

[limyangkwang]

Loving the explanation behind the processes.

[jidjewww]

Super helpful! Your teaching style and pace is perfect for ppl with intermediate AE skill.
Just the kind of tutorial I'm looking for. Thanks for making this!

[TobyyJ]

adding this to my watch later, been addicted to learning more after effects! W as always Mapal

[satonio]

Finally, I found that kind of tutorial,
Thank you so much

[WillianWTF]

bro went crazy in this tutorial, i've been saying...

[Sukhraj]

nice use you made to use the camera for focus, I never thought about it! Tutorial well done and very chill 😊 can't wait for the next ones haha ​​maybe a video on transitions would be interesting

[mohamedabdo-xgtw]

Man, you are cool guy! thank you for sharing the knowledge

[ayoubvisuals]

I really love this channel, well done bro👌

[khele]

bruh this is amazing i like your style

[melna]

Hey Mapal! You're doing a really good job.
I'm learning from you a lot everyday.

I have one question like are you using Ae 2022 version cause my overload plugin is not working on Ae 2023

[lauramcgann]

Hi, thank you sooo much for your amazing vids! is there anyway in future vids if you can lower the volume on the background music? it competes with your voice. thank you!!

[Horxim]

Great tutorial!

I was wondering why you choose to use a camera instead of just scaling the timeline at 12:54.

[BeatsBeneath]

Hey Mapal, you got great skills bro. I'd love to see how you organise larger projects. Like match cuts, how to transition between scenes easily whilst following the movement just general organisation of a whole project. That'd be really useful coz it's easy to get bogged down in that kind of stuff. Peace

[anthonyjoseph]

Hey could you breakdown how you made your own transitions you used in this video? I'd appreciate it tons! Keep up the great work :)

[Buildsters]

good work bro thanks for it and please make more video like vox ....vox series

[boomr]

My wife worries I'm sat here by my computer looking at porn. She has no idea.

[safetyhomeloans]

If you don’t mind, what’s your studio setup ? And are you using OBS to display both your face and the monitor screen ? Only asking as your LUTS and your coloring is really well made.