Abstract Shapes Animation | After Effects Tutorial

In this After Effects tutorial, I'll show you how to animate these abstract shapes. We'll use expressions to position anchor points, Null objects for the rotation and some more tricks.

Content:
0:00 Intro
0:20 Creating the first shapes
1:24 Animating the beginning
3:45 The big shape
7:00 The small shape
8:26 Animating the end part
9:36 Outro

► Software: Adobe After Effects 22 (I use the "Default" Workspace in my tutorials)

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[manthanpatel]

Plis keep on making this type of videos, it really helps us to learn, thank you

[kaietaro]

Fantastic stuff Manuel, thank you for sharing this! One tip for anyone who (like me) tried to change the timing of the animation and ended up with misaligned circles for no apparent reason - after you add the expression fixing the anchor point to the slide of the circle *don't slide that shape layer left or right in the timeline*, because it will mess with how sourceRectAtTime() works. Move the keyframes and adjust the start and end point of the layer instead.

[rheingoldlounge]

Manuel—thank you as always for so generously sharing your knowledge!

[simonDmotiondesign]

I really like your tutorials!!
The quality is great and you can teach really good!
Keep grinding😁

[chewbacca]

Very good Manuel! thanks a lot for your work!

[Andrew-ppru]

Amazing!!!
You help me a lot. Thank you!

[sandiiihs]

Thank you so much, this video is super helpful for me 👍

[GrooveYouVerse]

Would you mind clarifying why you're using expressions to set the anchor point, instead of just setting it yourself? Is it because this allows you to change the achor point at will with keyframes, so you don't have unwanted animations? Or is it just personal preference you always do?

[richochet]

Hey Manuel! Another great one, can you please clarify that expression. I'm trying to break it down, but it still isn't clear yet;

*A=sourceRectAtTime();*
*[A.left + A.width, A.top+height/2]*

[thekasrarostami]

How to fix the anchor point to the top of shape with expression?

[watchunexpected]

You swear to your mother, father, siblings wife, children that you do not stop to teach us. we want to learn this motion graphics from you. 🙏🙏🙏

I'm getting an error trying to write this code "A=sourceRectAtTime();
[A.left+A.width, A.top+A.height/2]'"

[alexfreedomroad]

Hi, can someone explain me why when I apply the expression on the Shape Anchor point 2:28 the circle goes to the top of the composition?