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.