Animated Circle Burst in After Effects

Animated Circle Burst in After Effects

How to Create an Animated Circle Burst in After Effects

You can start these elements behind an animated logo to illustrate movement or add them to text graphics for amazing dynamic and interesting results. The circle burst is easy to create and it’s incredibly versatile. Let’s take a look step-by-step to create an animated circle burst in after effects.

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3 Steps to Create an Animated Circle Burst in After Effects

Step 1: Create an Ellipse

The first step is that we use the ellipse tool to create a simple circle. To get the look – turn off the fill and set the stroke to white with a width of 35 pixels. It’s important to centre the anchor point to the ellipse shape so that it will animate adequately.

If not centred then select the layer and go to Layer > Transform > Centre anchor point in layer content. Then use the Align panel to centre the circle within the composition. Now go to shape is prepped for animation.

Step 2: Animate the Shape

To create an animated circle burst, you need to animate two properties -“Stroke Width” and “Scale.” if you want the animation to be roughly one second in length, so add a sequence marker to visualize where to place the end keyframes quickly. First, animate the width of the stroke. If you want it to disappear, so animate the width from 30 down to 0. Next, you open up the “Transform” properties of the ellipse and animate the “Scale” from 0 to 100. It’s important not to animate the scale of the shape layer, as you want control over the attribute later.

To smooth out the animation and give it a natural look, change the first keyframes to “Easy Ease Out” and the last keyframes to “Easy Ease In.” Then next open up the graph editor and ramp up the speed at the start, slowing it down toward the end. Now it looks more like it’s following the laws of physics.

You can quickly make variations of animated circle burst by duplicating and slightly adjusting the keyframes or other settings. For example, you can change the scale of one or add a slight rotation. You can even add dashes to the stroke to give the burst a completely different look. Now it’s ready to bring these in and use them with other elements.

Click on below Video: After Effects Tutorial: Animated Circle Burst

Step 3: Incorporate in a Project

Add an animated title that you want to spruce up a bit. The text has a simple rotation and scale animation flying it onto the screen. Bring circle bursts in to add some extra movement and other details. For this particular graphic, place two large circle bursts behind the text. Parent the circle to the text, so it will follow the text as it moves, also add smaller circles on the edges of the text, parenting them to the text layer as well.

The key to making the animation work is tweaking each circle burst, making sure that they don’t match. It’s a simple rule of repositioning, duplicating and retiming. Repeat these steps until you get the desired look.

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