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by Emanuele Colombo

Set Up A Natural Unfoldin lding g Log Transition

Tutorial Details Program: After Program: After Effects and Illustrator Difficulty: Intermediate Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: 1h Time: 1h Tweet

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In this this tuto tutori rial al we are are goi going ng to take take a loo look k on on how how to creat create e a nice nice look lookin ing g and and ea easy sy to creat create e un un We will will begin begin dividing dividing our our vector vector logo using using masks, masks, the the we will will parent parent and animate animate the logo givi givi using expressions.

Step 1 The first first thing thing we have to to do, is to divide the logo logo in triangles. triangles. As we have to to be extrem extremely ely preci preci

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could be really hard. So we will design our unfolding system in Illustrator first. Select the Rectangle tool by pressing M, then draw a square keeping the Shift button pressed.

Step 2 Change the color of the square.

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Step 3 Select the “Delete anchor point tool” pressing -, and delete the bottom right anchor point. Now perfect 45 degree inclination.

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Step 4 Double click on the Layer name and rename it in “Triangle”.

Step 5 Then click on the cascade menu on the top right of the layer window, and click on “Duplicate Tri

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Step 6 Rotate the new level you have just created of 180 degrees, change its color and its name in “Tri

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Step 7 Now select the 2 triangles you have just created and duplicate them again and again, and feel f rotation until you find a disposition that satisfies you. Consider that every triangle represents on that will unfold during the animation. In this tutorial, I have chosen to divide the logo in 16 portions, but you can divide it in a higher n Remember that each triangle must be placed on a different layer. Save your project naming it Masks.ai

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Step 8 Open After Effects, create a new composition 1920"1080, 25fps, and place your logo in the mi

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Step 9 Import the file Masks.ai, be sure to import it as a composition.

Step 10 After Effects will automatically create a new comp called Masks. Open it and select all layers pr copy them pressing Cmd+C.

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Step 11 Switch back to your main composition and paste all the layers pressing Cmd+V, then turn down of how the logo will be divided

Step 12 Hide all the layers except the logo layer and the “Triangle 1 ! layer. Select the triangle and go to

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Tolerance value to 20, Minimum area to 10px, Threshold to 50 and Corner Roundness to 0%, a new layer” box.

Press Ok and a new mask will appear, and it will have exactly the same shape of the triangle w

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Step 13 Select the layer Triangle, press the shortcut M, that will show you all the masks applied to that l just created and press Cmd+X to cut it, then delete the layer “Triangle”. Now select the Logo layer, and press Cmd+V. The mask will be pasted on our logo, select “Add of logo we will animate. Rename it “Portion 1 !. Important! When you import the Logo in After Effects it must already have the right size, if you in AE this method won’t work. If you need to change the size, change it in Illustrator before imp

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Step 14 Drag in the composition a new copy of the logo and repeat Step 12 and 13 for every of the 16 t there is some imprecision between a mask and the other, fix it manually.

Step 15 Once Step 14 is complete, we will have a new version of the logo formed by 16 triangular porti

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Step 16 Press Cmd+A and switch all the layers to 3D.

Step 17 Add a new light and change its Z position to “-1500 !.

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Step 18 Our scene now is set up. What we have to do now is to parent each layer to the layer that is clo specific rule to follow when you decide how to parent layers, just use your imagination and play you want your logo to unfold. In my animation we’ll start from Portion 2. In the following image I will show how I parented the l layers will unfold.

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Step 19 Now we have to move the Anchor Point of each layer and put it along the side around which w use the Anchor Point tool and zoom as much as possible so you can be very precise in placing

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Step 20 All the portions that are going to rotate along the vertical or the horizontal side are ready to be change the X rotation and if the Anchor Points have been placed on the horizontal side. Use th Point is on the vertical side. As you can see in the example below, I changed X rotation value o properly.

When the Anchor Point is along the diagonal side, if you change X or Y rotation it won’t rotate t in the example below.

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What you have to do is to change Z Orientation value to 45°, the Z rotation value to -45°, and y the Y rotation value our layer will behave like we want it to do.

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Step 21 Our composition is completely set up! Now you only have to keyframe the rotation, assigning a rotation value -180 or 180 (depending from the front or from the back) to the first keyframe and 0 to the second. Remember, if the port vertical side, you have to put this keyframe on the Y value, if it is rotating along the horizontal si keyframes on the X value. I started from Portion 2 that is rotating along the horizontal side, to give it a bouncy look I used t

n = 0;if (numKeys > 0) {n = nearestKey(time).index;if (key(n).time > time){n–;}}if (n == 0) {t = 0;} if (n > 0){v = velocityAtTime(key(n).time – thisComp.frameDuration/10);amp = 8;freq = 1.0;deca (v/100)*amp*Math.sin(freq*t*2*Math.PI)/Math.exp(decay*t);}else{value;} You can also put 2 keyframes on the opacity value from 0 to 100, so that the portion appear whi

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Step 22 Do the same for all the layers and once you have finished, move the rotation keyframes backw first, or forward if you want them to unfold later, until you obtain a nice looking unfolding effect.

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Step 23 Press Cmd+A to select all layers and then Cmd+Shift+C to pre-compose them, rename the Pre drop shadow to it, change the blending mode to multiply and import a paper texture to use it as

Step 24 Now we can use the unfold effect we have just created to add some cool background effects. logo composition and add the “Fill” effect to every layer to make them appear completely white. composition to “Background Unfold”.

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Step 25 Then drag the “Background Unfold” composition the your main comp, change the blending mod the scale until the the unfold effect fills the background of the composition. Duplicate it, rotate it and move it a few frames forward.

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AETuts+ Set Up A Natural Unfolding Logo Reveal Or Transition

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