After Effects Beginners Tutorial 2025: Animate like a PRO for FREE!

Take 10% off Launch Into After Effects with code "LOOPY" at checkout: https://jkinmo.com/3ni52l Artwork & Project Files: https://jkinmo.com/gf76wb Jake In Motion Discord:   / discord   --------------------------------------- One of my most popular After Effects Skillshare courses for beginners is now free! To celebrate its tenth anniversary, I've updated, re-recorded, and expanded The Beginner's Guide to Animating Custom GIFs and am giving it away here on YouTube. This class is designed to be your first motion design project in After Effects, and together we'll be creating the same animation. I've also included 2 extra pieces of artwork that you can choose to animate using the exact same techniques I teach in the class. Or, if you're up for it, you can design and animate your own artwork. We'll learn how to get assets into After Effects, set up a composition, animate layers using keyframes, precompose layers, apply effects, create seamless loops, and export animated GIFs and compressed MP4 videos to share online. I hope you enjoy your very first motion graphics project in After Effects! --------------------------------------- 📸Instagram:   / jakeinmotion   🐤X: https://x.com/jakeinmotion 🏷️ Tag @jakeinmotion if you learned something! Chapters: 00:00 My Most Popular Skillshare Class is FREE 01:17 Pt. 1 - Getting Started 04:06 Timecode and Composition Settings 07:06 Adding Text 10:41 Pt. 2 - Keyframes 12:56 Setting Position Keyframes 19:08 Editing a Motion Path 23:10 Smoothing Motion with Rove Across Time 24:28 Pt. 3 - Rotation 28:16 Easing Keyframes 31:03 Pt. 4 - Trim Paths 34:30 Trimming the Path 37:04 Animating the Stroke Width 38:18 Pt. 5 - The Clouds 40:48 Pt. 6 - Wave Warp 42:28 Applying an Effect 45:23 Roller Coaster Wave Warp Note 49:22 Pt. 7 - Exporting 50:14 Exporting a GIF 51:30 Manually Looping Comps 53:42 Exporting a Video as an MP4 55:18 You Did It!