Types Of Keyframes In After Effects CC 2022

Hello Friends,

         As a compositor, You should know about keyframes and their types. This is a little bit theoretical topic, But let's understand some term like Interpolation, Keyframes, and their types with help of some images and GIFs.

Keyframe

        As you know After Effects is layer-based software for animation and compositing where keyframes and interpolation are a super important topic because keyframes are everything in After Effects. So let's understand those term in the easiest way.

“Keyframes are basically markers that indicate the value or property of elements such as the position, rotation, scale, FX amount, etc”

 

(Keyframe Icons)

Interpolation

        Before we understand the types of keyframes we need to understand the interpolation term.  Interpolation is a method that, how the After Effects calculate the values between two or more keyframes. It might be Spatial Interpolation or Temporal Interpolation.

1. Temporal Interpolation

        Temporal Interpolation deals with motion and time. It means how property changes over time(In the Timeline panel). With help of this method, you can set the animation time and get a smoother & natural look in your animation

(Temporal Interpolation)

2. Spatial Interpolation

        Spatial Interpolation deals with the motion path of elements. It means how the element will perform on the motion path (In the composition panel). With help of this method, you can change the motion path the way you like.

(Spatial Interpolation)

Types of the Keyframe

        Linear keyframe is default interpolation in After Effects. It will change the values between keyframes by the uniform rate. It's indicated by the diamond-shaped icon.

(Linear Keyframe)

        This interpolation is very useful when you need more fluidly and smooth animation. You can play with the curve handles and you will get a very smoother animation. This curve value is generated automatically by Ae. To create this keyframe just hold the Ctrl/Cmd⌘ key on your keyboard and click on the keyframe. This keyframe is indicated by a circle-shaped icon.

(Auto Bezier Keyframe)

        Continuous Bezier is like an auto bezier keyframe. But here you can change the influence of the keyframes manually. To create this keyframe just select your keyframes and press Ctrl/Cmd⌘ + K on your keyboard. After effects show you the keyframe velocity setting box. Here you can change it manually. This keyframe is indicated by an hourglass-shaped icon.

(Continuous Bezier Keyframe)

        Bezier keyframe gives you full control of motion path functionality. It means you can change the motion path of your element within the composition panel. Also, you can adjust values using the graph editor in the timeline panel. This keyframe is also indicated by an hourglass-shaped icon.

(Bezier Keyframe)

        This keyframe holds the specific keyframe. It means the hold keyframe allows you to jump from one point to another point directly without having a smooth transition. To create this keyframe just hold the Ctrl/Cmd⌘ + Alt key on your keyboard and click on the keyframe. This keyframe is also useful for freezing the footage.

For freezing video clip follow this step

Right click on Layer/Footage > Time > Freeze Frame

(Hold Keyframe)

That's it guys. I hope this article will help you to understand Interpolation and Keyframes term.
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Best Software for Motion Graphics 2021

 Hello Artist,

        Nowadays the motion graphics & satisfying animation is on trending everywhere. You can see motion graphics posts on every social media apps/webs like Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Dribble etc. Actully motion graphics is very easy to convey the message you want to share like meme, ads, information etc. So lets dive into MOTION GRAPHICS.

There are two types of motion graphics.  

2D Motion Graphics 

3D Motion Graphics 

Which software/tool is behind Motion Graphics?

1 After Effects by Adobe 

2 Cinema4D by Maxon

        Commonly this two software are used most in motion graphics world, Both are paid software and if you go with After effects the you will also get Cinema4D lite version, In lite version there are some limitation if compare with full version.

Now lets talk about FREE TOOLS !!

        There are some free tools also available for motion graphics and animation. Here we have covers two of them. fist tool is Synfig and second one is Blender. Basically Synfig studio is used for 2D animation and motion graphics. Blender is used for 3D modeling, Animation and so on. There two amazing tool you can use totally free. You can download it from given link below.

Synfig : www.synfig.org

Blender : www.blender.org

That's it guys. I hope this article will help.
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