Motion Graphics with After Effects

The reason for this post is that I would like to showcase the work I’ve created in After Effects during the 2 weeks studying the Motion Graphics course for anyone interested. As a complete beginner of After Effects I struggled in the beginning to understand the functions of the software and how to think when placing your key frames.  After thousands and thousands of video tutorials, late nights and lots of frustration I started to get a hang of it. I’m not all that comfortable working with AE, but I’m at least getting there. Although difficult, AE is an extremely interesting and fascinating software to work with and the possibilities with it are really endless. So I’m looking forward to what else this course has to offer.

All the assingments of the motion graphics course have been to create a “bumper”, also known as “opener” or “stings”.  These short spot run anywhere from 5 and 20 secs long. The distinction is really only where they appear in relationship to the advertising that follows or precedes them. All Tv Network programming uses some sort of transitional graphic and you might even have your favorites.

Anyways, here are the bumpers I’ve created using After Effects during these past 2 weeks. Hope you enjoy! 🙂

Here are my two latest bumpers;

And my first bumper where we only got to use simple shapes and no color.