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  4. Easings

Today we are going to talk about the one of the most important things in animation - easings. Learn its types, how to define bad and good easings, and of course, we will decide which graph to use better Value or Speed.

We will start from learning main types of After Effects keyframes. Their work principle is shown in the attached project.

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Practice

Task 1. Create the animation of pendulum

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Task 2. Create the animation of ball jumping on the trampoline.

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Advanced Practice

Task 1. Create the pendulum animation with trails

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Task 2. Create animation of jumping 3D cube (assemble the cube from 3D Layers)

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Homework

Task 1. Create the animation of jumping on stairs balls. The principle is the same with task from lesson practice, but trajectory is different and you need to create a loop. 

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Task 2. Create the pinball game animation. The project file is attached below. There are two compositions in the project. You need to create animation of ball and flippers in 'Animate' composition and render 'Render' composition. The animation from 'Animate' will be automatically pasted and it will count your animation points automatically ;)

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Portfolio shot

If you did previous tasks without any difficulties try this one. That would be a nice shot to your portfolio! Source file is attached below

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How to — Homework #3

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