From the course: Motion Graphics for Social Media
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Animate a thumbs up - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Motion Graphics for Social Media
Animate a thumbs up
- [Instructor] Using the techniques we've learned so far, we're going to animate a thumbs-up icon, and we're going to combine our animated properties with an expression to add character. So let's just take a look at what we're trying to achieve. We'll switch back to our working composition, and just figure out how we're going to put this together. You can always refer back to the thumbs-up end composition if you get stuck. First, I'm going to animate the thumb, and it's going to rotate from behind the hand. And to do that, I'm going to move the anchor points. So I'm going to press Y on the keyboard, and zoom in a little bit. And then just bring this over to here. We've got snapping on. It's going to snap to just this edge of the artwork. If I press R I can reveal the rotation properties, and then we can start to manipulate this. So it looks like around about 45 degrees is where we want to start. So I'll set the key frame,…
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