‫Now in the previous lecture, we have created a simple animation using a cube controller and not a that
‫we attach to the 3D cube one.
‫Now let's create more cubes and try to position them and try to animate them in a fashionable way,
‫if you like.
‫I will come to 3D Cube one now.
‫I will duplicate it.
‫But actually.
‫And I won't use it the way it is.
‫You know, it has this face over here.
‫I need to remove it, so I'll put it off and the front.
‫Now I will return the feel.
‫The same feel we had.
‫Click.
‫Okay.
‫Let's go back to our Cuban mission here and let's take the Cube two and drop it under three d cube one.
‫Very easy.
‫Of course it's huge.
‫I'm going to press SW and make it only at 10%.
‫Then I'll put it in 3D and collapse transformations.
‫Let's go back to the last keyframe.
‫We have the second cube just over here.
‫I click on it and just drag.
‫And I just positioned over here the way you would like.
‫You can do it.
‫Now I want to put more cubes.
‫So I will come to 3D Cube two and also duplicated another one and another one.
‫So we'll have three cubes here.
‫Now I can simply take the cube three and drop it in and start moving it just like this one.
‫But I'm going to do something else.
‫I will select Cube three and in the comp also I will select the Cube two and duplicate it.
‫So I have another cube two here.
‫Now I will click on Q three press alt or option on the Mac click and drag and drop it over cube two.
‫Now notice what happens.
‫You have an identical one just over here and of course you can position it the way you would like.
‫I can also rotate it.
‫Okay, let's make them, you know, facing this side.
‫That would be nicer.
‫Okay.
‫And let's bring now the first cube will come to Cube three, control the duplicated.
‫Select the cube three from the timeline, press alt or option on the Mac click and drag and drop it
‫on top.
‫Now I have another cube three.
‫I will use the selection tool just to move it over here.
‫Let's adjust them.
‫Please feel free to come over and adjust them the way you would like.
‫I will use the rotation tool here to rotate the bit like this.
‫So now let's select the three new cubes here and use the pick whip to pick with them to the cube controller.
‫Let's try our animation.
‫Okay.
‫Here you are.
‫Now.
‫I guess we have a nice animation.
‫Not bad, by the way.
‫I didn't expect that because we have a lot of rotation on the cube controller.
‫First of all, I don't want any movement that comes outside.
‫Decomposition.
‫We are at the limit.
‫So now that we have our controller controlling all the cubes and we have a nice animation, we can start
‫giving a certain animation for the cube themselves as children, if you remember.
‫So I press P for position and keyframe the position.
‫So that's what I want them at the end, come to the beginning, just over here and just move them around
‫as simple as this.
‫Okay, I'm creating here a motion path and we'll see how it's going to work.
‫Okay.
‫What is the motion path?
‫Let's come to the next keyframe.
‫You notice that you have the motion path now.
‫You can start playing with the motion path and giving it a secondary animation or another animation
‫if you like.
‫So this guy over here now, I'm doing it a bit blindly.
‫You know, guys, I need to catch the point over here.
‫Okay, here I am.
‫But nevertheless, you can do it more educated choice here.
‫Just making sure that, you know they're doing very well.
‫Now, the way I do that, when I want a random animation, I was just scraped through here.
‫Okay, I notice what's not working, for example, here.
‫Okay.
‫I don't like this.
‫You know, they're coming on top of each other.
‫So the next thing to do is just change the motion path.
‫Of course, it's going to affect all the animation.
‫Zoom in at 100%.
‫MP So not only you have an animation using the controller, but also you have an animation using the
‫position for every single layer.
‫Fine.
‫Now, this is cool.
‫Let's make it more exciting now.
‫Let's come to the next point.
‫And for the three new cubes, we open the rotation.
‫Okay, so I'm going to make this one a bit bigger.
‫We can see the rotation and the keyframe.
‫X and Y and Z.
‫Here you are for all of them because they were selected.
‫Let's come to over here and just fiddle with the rotation.
‫Let's give this guy one rotation here, this guy a bit more.
‫And let's take this one negative, for example.
‫Whatever you like, I'm being rundown because I want to show you the techniques, how it works, and
‫not really the animation as, you know, delicate animation, something, you know, beautiful that
‫you would like or you would like to show off with.
‫Okay.
‫After all, nobody is going to notice that you didn't do a meticulous job.
‫Everybody is going to look at the animation is beautiful.
‫So we've done this.
‫Let's now play our animation.
‫See it from here before we zoom in.
‫Actually, we have something pretty nice.
‫They're stopping all at the same time.
‫If this is your goal, you're fine.
‫If not, you can just move the rotation a bit in time.
‫Not much.
‫A bit in time.
‫And of course, you would like to.
‫Easy, easy them.
‫And let's play.
‫Cool.
‫Not bad.
‫Let's play it now in real time.
‫I will take this one down.
‫Bye, guys.
‫So you noticed it was pretty easy and pretty simple to add more cubes and to change even the faces of
‫the cube.
‫You could change 3D cube for the face and so on.
‫Okay, guys.
‫So now it's up to you.
‫You need to come to after effects and start creating the same system I have done.
‫Creating the cubes, moving them and changing the rotation, changing the position.
‫Play with it.
‫Create a motion path for each cube, you know, make it much more beautiful.
‫So here I am, giving you a lecture I am proposing to you.
‫I'm trying to excite your imagination and it's up to you now.
‫Go to After Effects and create something awesome.
‫See you in the next lecture.