After Effects flourish growth demo animation

A relatively short and simple flourish growth that I've made in AE. Initially intended to make the scene way more complex, but Photoshop crapped out on me and I couldn't edit what was supposed to be the scene background. Frustration followed, and I decided to keep it as simple as possible.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• flourish
• animation
• after effects
• AE
• fourish growth

[orsations]

@davidovic12345 If you know the basics of working with After Effects, it's just a matter of animating masks. If you don't know what that means, you should try to get a better grip on the basics of it. :D You can find lots of tutorials and learning materials on a site called creative cow (youtube comments won't let me put a link here; just google it, first result).

[davidovic12345]

Ok Im sorry orsations can you tell me how I create them from scratch or a still picture for instance??? I would be very very happy!!

[orsations]

@davidovic12345 No problem. :D

Well, you arrange the animated clips in an After Effects composition. If you want to create them from scratch, that involves designing/animating each of them from scratch, or from a static flourish (you can find lots online).

After you have the individual animated flourishes it's not hard at all. Just a matter of arranging them the way you want.

[davidovic12345]

Ok thanks for answering! I really would like to learn the first basic steps of animating the flourish! Is it hard to arrange them in an composition? I have heard that You must paint and then scan into the computer etc?

[orsations]

@davidovic12345 I could make a tutorial sometime if there would be more requests for one. The basic concept is this: you use individual flourish animations that are arranged over time in a composition so that it looks like they grow from one another. So it's individual animated files combined to give the effect of organic growth.

[davidovic12345]

Hi! Looks great can you please explain how to make something flourish like that???