Animated icons that can make your live-action or explainer video much more engaging. This guide holds all the best tricks and tactics for using animated icons in your next video production.
Adobe After Effects
We use Adobe After Effects software to bring static icons to life. This is why we share a single source files projects so you can play around with them. Download an icon source project in AEP format and load it to Adobe After Effects software.
Sometimes if you load too many AEP icon projects into a single After Effects project, icons might be dispersed. This happens because a null object has been doubled and wrongly interpreted. To fix this, load icons one by one.
Adobe AE project walktrough
This video shows the Adobe After Effects project walkthrough and the process of deleting expression controls.
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How to create onboarding animation
This video walks through using Lordicon animated icons and creating transitions between them.
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How to use animated icons in Adobe AE
This video presents helpful tips on steramlining the process of adding, customizing, and maintaining animated icons in Adobe After Effects projects.
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Marker key expression
action = comp(name).layer("action");
n = 0;
if (marker.numKeys > 0){
n = marker.nearestKey(time).index;
if (marker.key(n).time > time){
n--;
}
}
if (n == 0){
0
}else{
m = marker.key(n);
myComment = m.comment;
t = time - m.time;
try{
actMarker = action.marker.key(myComment);
if (action.marker.numKeys > actMarker.index){
tMax = action.marker.key(actMarker.index + 1).time - actMarker.time;
}else{
tMax = action.outPoint - actMarker.time;
}
t = Math.min(t, tMax);
actMarker.time + t;
}catch (err){
0
}
}
