Geometric Loop Animation | After Effects Tutorial

In this After Effects Tutorial I’ll show you, how to animate a geometric and abstract loop - using the “create nulls from paths” script!

The “Create Nulls from Paths” Script, is built in - since After Effects 2018.
First, we create a square shape, which we transform into a bezier path and the use the script, which creates four null objects.
They have the exact same position as the 4 corner points of the square.

Next, we'll animate the square - the 4 null objects follow - and link shapes to the null objects.
This way, you can get some crazy results - very easy.
We'll mainly animate the scale and rotation of the square to get that seamless loop, in the end we also animate the positions of the linked shapes.

Finally, we'll add some gradient ramps and a drop shadow to make the whole looping animation look nice.

If you have any further questions, let me know in the comments below. I do my best to answer all of them!

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[badryagami]

Man ur in the list of my favorite Motion designers Youtubers, fresh techniques with fresh music in the bg Love ur tutorials keep going <3

[mervinmonfort]

Wow..such an awesome tutorial!
You are sooo underrated!

[ratzch]

Sehr coole Sache, Manuel! Danke :) Getting addicted to your tutorials XD

[lopsangdlama]

he needs more attention. Thanks for the awesome tutorial

[DorifutoRabbit]

This was really useful, and worked in the old version of AE CC that I had access to, thank you!

[seblestuto]

Thank you so much ! I am defenitly going to translate this tutorial in french ! Thank you so much !

[sirlefuppe]

hey, when I do this, the Nulls are not on the points like in your video. They are all a bit on the right and i can not move them

[wookvietnam]

I am now having some problem that after I chose null follow points all 4 nulls have deviated. Could you help me pls? I will
appreciate that much.

[wookvietnam]

Could you make a video about the after effects script "nulls from paths" but when create points follow nulls from it. Their position does not align with the points.

[cheese_wrld]

Thanks for your videos. I can't find the nulls from paths option anywhere though after i convert to bezier path.

[JosepMotion]

Thanks! I'm a big fan of this script and just discovered your tutorials. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. By the way, what microphone do you use? I'm tired of mine... thanks!

[mktv]

Sooo fast unable to understand is there any tutorial which is slow and easy to understand

[bleedrwn]

could you do an ink animation tutorial sometime- thanks!