30 Days of After Effects tutorials forges on with day 3 which looks at some strategies for animating multiple gears in Ae. If you try to “eyeball” the animation for every gear, you will have a bad time.
Expressions can be a great solution here, along with some other great tips for moving and animating gears in After Effects. Lots of great stuff in this one, including some learning some basic things about gears.
Check out the tutorial for Using Expressions for Animating Gears in After Effects.
The 30 Days of After Effects event is sponsored by theMotion Design Department @ The Ringling College of Art & Design.
In addition to releasing a new video every Monday-Friday for the next 6 weeks, School of Motion and Ringling have partnered up to create a contest for visitors to the site. A user-submitted project will be selected and reviewed by the Motion Design staff, with the review-session being filmed and shared on School of Motion and Ringling social media. The winner also gets a 30-minute Animation Coaching session with Joey Korenman from School of Motion, and publicity from the contest.
