Abstract Shapes Animation | After Effects Tutorial

In this After Effects Tutorial, I’ll show you how to animate abstract shapes!
It is not as complicated as it seems!
First, we set up the comps we need. We take the precomp, create a new main comp with it and in the main comp, we duplicate the predomp, flip it horizontally, duplicate it again, flip it vertically and one more time duplicate it and flip it horiziontally.

It's 4 times the same comp, which we now need to animate. It's mostly simple keyframe animations
of the rotation, scale and position of shapes. All nicely smoothed out be editing the speed curves in the graph editor.
Some small parts need to be done frame by frame though... It won't take long!

Finally, we add a layer style - bevel and emboss, and some gradient ramps, to give it a unique look.

I guess the main task in this tutorial is to figure out, how animating a shape in the precomp turns out in the main comp.

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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[GrooveYouVerse]

From what I'm gathering about this, it seems that it's all based on symmetry, and creating a practical kaleidoscope look. This makes so much sense!

[shivendrapawar]

Nice Tutorial! Everything was so well explained. Thank you

[VionkBakoye]

Wow amazing tutorial after effect i love it

[golukumar-rcug]

what is project File name on gumroad not able fid out the project name

[pravesharya]

this video does a brilliant job at explaining how to create these abstract animations.. but the question is... how to come up with such complex animations ??? how to create them in head before actually developing in the animation software.. are there some basics ? some rules ? how do we get started ??

[KT-uemx]

I did everything right but result of 1st composition is completely different? I think it's because your files I downloaded is messy. There are many differentadditional compositions that I didnt know did I chose the right one

[AHMEDGames]

great tutorials. I want to know how you know 540 and 135 degrees like this you save that?

[hellotome]

Hey, This tutorial is excellent.
I would like to know
Like you set keyframes on specific location like 25, 45, 55 etc.
Is there is any rule or something to set keyframes or it is just hit and try method ?
I'm confused
Like on which frames we have to put keyframes
AND
How do we have to select FPS while creating Main Composition for animation ?

[zoevisser]

Which project file should you use? I cannot find the right one

[AlexandreSoma]

Thanks for the tutorial, but please, take this sound with voice, its absolutely annoying, they are clashing...