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How to create this animation?
Hi, cows!
Need help with animation. Please check out this video ( 1st 6 seconds only) –> https://youtu.be/dre9jCYRWYw
In the 1st 6 seconds, the two small circles with icons revolve around the large circle. They change shape while moving and then take the original shape of the circle on the next stop.
I want to recreate that revolving animation of circles while changing shapes. I was able to revolve them around the circle by tracing the path. I don’t know how to change their shape while they move.
The animation is quick so watch the video at 0.5x to observe the motion I am talking about.
Please help me out.
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5 Replies
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There is a plug-in at aescripts for that effect.
By hand, its an organic style animated vector shape.
For beginners start with the bouncing ball technique.
Then move up to the organic style animation.
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Thank you, Eric. I am comfortable with the bouncing ball technique.
I am interested in that particular effect right now. I was able to create a similar-looking effect by applying the twist operator to the circle shape. However, it’s not perfect.
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It’s more of a morphing technique.
Where it starts as an ellipse then into a pill shape with a bend.
Some would keyframe that but I am sure there are combinations of distorted options that can do it.
Just need to practice.
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I would go a different direction. I would create a big circle around the central one, give it a big stroke matching the diameter of the small outer circle I want to create and make sure the stroke has rounded caps. Then I add a trim path where the start or the end (depending on the direction I want the circle to spin) are very close, so lets say start at 0% and end at 0.1%. The resulting stroked path should appear as a circle. Now I would animate the offste of the trim path, animate the start/end property so the stroke stretches and shortens again and finally I would edit the stroke thickness so it appears to be shrinking while moving.
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Wow, Robert! Thank you so much. I knew this would work as soon as I read it. I went in and tried it. I am able to create the exact effect.
Until now I was thinking, I need to do some kind of morphing technique to produce this as Eric also suggested. But this is so easy. Thank you once again.
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