Nick Hill, Creative Director from the Motion graphics team at No Magnolia shows how you can layout a grid of irregular shapes in After Effects by way of some fairly simple expressions.
[pullquote]Here’s how to lay out a grid of logos (or anything, really) in AE, using some fairly simple expressions.[/pullquote]After Effects does have an align and distribute panel, but the commands work on the center of the shape or bounding box. If you are working on a layout of logos for instance, the align doesn’t take the shape of the image into consideration.
This will leave larger visual gaps between some objects versus others. There is a way to layout a grid of logos though, and that is with After Effects’ expression language.
If you need to layout a grid system that divides the screen in various proportions, Mayra Vescovi posted a look at doing such a thing. Check out the post for Creating A Grid-Like Layout Using Basic Expressions in After Effects.
