Assembling interactive icons.

Adobe After Effects

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.

Key takeaways

  • Learn the best ways on adding animated icons to videos

  • Learn how to work with animated icons in Adobe After Effects

  • Put the spotlight on key information by using animated icons

  • Provide a little relief and enjoyment to your videos

  • Communicate your brand values and set the tone of your presentation by using animation

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.

Basic project walktrough

This video shows the Adobe After Effects project walkthrough and the process of deleting expression controls.

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