After Effects Tutorial: Basic Path or Stroke Vector Graphic Animation [Video]

Experiment with typography motion with this simple After Effects technique with Holke 79

Small animations, gifs, short videos with animated texts and other multimedia content can make the difference to your social media posts. With After Effects, the Adobe software used to create special effects in post-production, you can create simple and attractive pieces intuitively and with the use of fairly few resources.

In the following tutorial, motion graphics design Borja Holke (@holke79) explains how to add movement to a simple composition of image and text, turning it into a basic animated graphic using After Effects.

Learn more in the video below:

6 steps to create a text animation with After Effects

1. Begin a new composition

If you want to use an animation on social media, check the format that each platform requires. For your Instagram feed, for example, choose a square design. Once the project is created, you can define the size, rate of frames per second, and …