Easy Ease – Adjusting softness

[Philip Bowser]

It looks like you’re correct. There is definitely some easing on the motion. Hard to exactly what values they would have used. Try opening of the Graph Editor and playing with the curves on the keyframes until it’s looking nice. Also, one technique I use a lot is playing with the “Keyframe Velocity” parameters.

Select your keyframes and choose Animation>Keyframe Velocity from the top menu (Command+Shift+K on Mac or Control+Shift+K on PC) and you can change the influence that those keyframes have on speed/easing.

Think of the “Speed” parameter as the initial velocity the object has when it starts moving. So a value of zero would mean it starts from completely still and gradually picks up speed.

The “Influence” parameter is essentially how long it takes that object to reach its maximum speed. A value of 5% would mean that it would reach it’s top speed very quickly. A value of 80% means it would move very slow at first, gradually picking up speed until it would need to move very fast to get to it’s second keyframe in time.

Try setting both the incoming and outgoing velocities to these parameters:
Speed: 0 pixels/sec
Influence: 75%

You’ll notice that the animation starts out slow, then accelerates to a snappy move, and lastly decelerates again nicely.

Mess around with those settings (I’d suggest checking “Continuous” at first so the incoming and outgoing are the same) until you get something looking snappy like your reference.

To help better understand this, see how changing these values will also affect the curves in the Graph Editor.

Hope this helps!

Philip. Bowser

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Watch this – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTGViL5v8cA

and then this – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6ZFfgD9t1M

HTH
RoRK

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Imagineer Systems (mocha) Certified Instructor
& Adobe After Effects CS6 ACE/ACI

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[Brandon Adam]

Thank you both and Philip for the very detailed reply. Here is “mock” I did illustrating the motion. Does it look similar? I played around with the settings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyCiwkKyvPw&feature=youtu.be

[Chris Evans]

Another recommendation is the “Ease and Wizz” from aescripts.com. It has a price listed, but you can choose your own price as free is you want. It’s great and simple for creating better keyframe animations.

[Jason Jantzen]

You’re all thinking of this too mathematically. While Ease & Whiz will get you 90% of what you want in most cases, controlling that sneaky slow ease in and snap at the end is a matter of keyframing magic, which really isn’t all that magical.

In the first 10 frames of the animation you have the shape or mask animate out about 10%, enough to iniate the motion. Move ahead 3 frames and animate about 90% of the rest of the animation, maybe 85 if you want more soft easing at the end. Then move ahead 10 more frames and add a keframe and finish the rest of the reveal. After you have your keyframes in place (all linear at this point), make the first and last key frame easy ease. Go to the graph editor and drag out the ease to 100% on the first and last keyframe. On the two keyframes right next to each other, pull the handles all the way in so there is no ramp (shouldn’t need to bother with the handles between the 2 keyframes, just between the first and 2nd, and 3rd and 4th). Here’s an example attached.

6986_keyframing.aep.zip

Jason Jantzen
vimeo.com/jasonj