From the course: Motion Graphics for Social Media
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Design and animate a lower third - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Motion Graphics for Social Media
Design and animate a lower third
- [Instructor] Our goal is to create a lower third that animates in an interesting way, but remains within the brand guidelines and is flexible enough so that we can make quick changes. Here's what we're trying to achieve. So it's something relatively straightforward with some elements that animate in and a very simple text animation. Let's jump over to our working composition. These are the elements that we're going to be using to create this lower third. The accent layer, caption, and a background. Now, what we want to do is align the accent with the background. So I'm going to select both of those layers and look at the align tools. And if we align them both to the left and then to a vertical align. Now we have them in the right place. Let's bring the caption in. And you can see because we have snapping turned on, it's going to align to the middle of this. Now I'd like to be able to move everything as one unit.…
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