How to Animate Shorts Like Ali Abdaal (After Effects Tutorial)

Learn to animate in the style of Ali Abdaal's Youtube Shorts, as well as how to make the paper textures entirely from scratch. With plenty of AE tricks included!

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Free version: https://skymography.com/paperpackfree

See what's inside the pack:    • Sky's Crumpled Paper Pack - What's In...  

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► TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro (what are we making?)
0:52 PART 1: Asset Creation
3:36 Processing in After Effects
5:28 Sequencing layers
6:34 Stabilizing the images
7:27 Removing the background - KEYING
10:48 Fixing keying problems
11:50 Removing the background - ROTO
14:24 Rendering the assets
15:22 PART 2: Essential Tricks
15:35 Extending/Reversing the assets (AE)
16:53 Extending/Reversing the assets (Premiere)
17:37 Extending/Reversing the assets (Resolve)
18:19 Extra visual controls
18:50 Jitter/Wiggle expressions
20:32 A better expression setup (Transform effect)
24:38 Saving as an Animation Preset
26:01 PART 3: Actually Animating!
26:08 Laying out the title text
28:01 Changing the asset speed
28:42 Changing the letter colors
30:08 Quick-swapping assets
30:58 Adding our animation preset!
32:40 Adding a background
33:04 Offsetting the layers randomly
33:50 Adding the "Part 1" text
35:20 Animating the butterflies
39:52 Changing the butterfly colors
40:19 Animating the butterfly trails
43:12 Adding the drop shadow
44:33 Overall scale keyframing
45:48 Final overlay textures
47:23 The last effects (vignette & displacement)
48:25 Outro

Thanks for watching :)