Quickly speed up your motion graphics workflow with new responsive design tools. Adobe has introduced a handful of new tools in the 2019 version of After Effects, with one of the most powerful being the new Responsive Design - Time feature. This new function gives users tight control over the duration of animations when precomposing. Below, let’s take a closer look at how to use this new feature. Why Should You Use Responsive Design? Let’s take the following animated speech bubble as an example. This particular composition is three seconds in length, with a ten-frame intro animation and a ten-frame outro animation. The graphic simply rotates and scales up for ten frames at the beginning of the comp, and then rotates and scales back down at the last ten frames. Let’s say that I want to nest this animation in another composition and that I have the ability to quickly change the duration to fit a particular piece of video. This is where the new Responsive Design feature comes in handy. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 15 October, 2018