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Here are a list of the tutorials in our text book that you may want to do for your animations projects.
This book is a wonderful companion as it covers basic graphic design fundamental that are good to review and keep in mind to make sure your work is professional looking.
Chapter 3: Typography in Motion
This chapter will help you with animating type which is helpful when creating title scenes.
Exercise 1: Animating Text Layers [p.80]*
Exercise 2: Animating Text Along a Path [p.85]*
Exercise 3: Applying Text Animation Presets [p.89]*
Exercise 4: Using Text Animators [p.95]
Exercise 5: Animating Tracking [p.101]
Chapter 4: Logos in Motion
Exercise 4: Simulating Handwriting with a Stroke [p.151]*
Chapter 7: Title Sequences in Motion
Review the first part of this chapter on what goes into a good title scene to use as a prelude to your animation. There are three tutorials that may interest you for your project.
Chapter 8: 3D Space in Motion
This chapter explores 3D space and reviews how to set up your layers. Chris uses Cinema 4D as a modeling program, so some of the exercises incorporate that into them. The first two tutorials will be helpful if you want to incorporate 3D into your project.
Read the introductory page as it has good information about 3D space.
Exercise 1: Animating Text Layers in 3D Space [p.275]*
Exercise 2: Adding and Animating 3D Lights [p.280]*
*Highly Recommended
Other resources:
Good resources on Title Scenes, Designers, etc.
http://notcoming.com/saulbass/index2.php
https://www.artofthetitle.com/
Good resource for any Adobe Product where you can get inspiration.
Good resource if you want to delve in deeper into AfterEffects using the programming language called Expressions – this is a resource page for finding scripts.