TITLE: Trim Path Animation
YOUR ROLE: Director/Lead animator
MEDIA: 2D Animation
SOFTWARE: Adobe After Effects
DURATION: 0:09
CLASS: FMX 322
PROFESSOR: Javier Olarte
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 23
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: Similar to the business introduction animation, this animation was centered around using shapes to introduce a name, logo, business, etc, albeit by using trim paths in After Effects. Such effect reminded me of a sort of unravelling appearance, something I decided to play heavily into with this animation by having my name be introduced through an unravelling spiral. In order to create the spiral, I simply created the largest shape that would be the base and animated its trimpath before duplicating it and shrinking it, repeating for as many times as I needed. Once that was complete, I offset the key frames of each layer so that when one layer fully unravelled, the next would begin to immediately do the same. I did this for the background at the end as well, albeit in reverse as the trimpaths cause the rectangles to appear rather than disappear. For the 8-Bit ‘pellets’ flying by my name, I utilized the loop commands we were also instructed to utilize to create a consistent, steady stream of pellets that were in fact the same layers moving in repeat, allowing me to avoid the hassle of animating numerous little pellets at once.