Animate Like VOX - After Effects Tutorial

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In this lengthy video I go over how to make Vox style videos by highlighting some of the techniques they use. More specifically, we will be working with the 3D camera in After Effects and use it to animate articles, timelines, and a lower third. The point of this video is to teach how you can utilise some of the simplest features in After Effects to tell a story. I want to emphasise that I don’t think you should straight up copy what Vox or anyone else does BUUT there is a lot you can learn through replicating and testing out new techniques.

Anyways, I hope you learned something new from this video or at least just enjoyed following along!

As always, thank you for watching.

The VOX video used as inspiration: Obama on why income inequality has sk...

Feel free to skip around:
00:00 - Intro
00:11 - Result Preview
00:21 - Purpose of The Tutorial
00:38 - Hopping Into After Effects
00:45 - 1st Effect Article in 3D Space
04:44 - 2nd Effect Animated Timeline
05:06 - Designing The Timeline
06:28 - Animating The Timeline
15:10 - 3rd Effect Animated Lower Third
20:18 - End Result

The equipment:
Sony a7iii
Tamron 28-75
Cinebloom 10%
Deity V-MIC D3
Tascam DR-10L
Peak Design Travel Tripod - Aluminium
Amaran 100D + Neewer Softbox

Mac Studio Max
Asus ProArt 27” Monitor

Music Used:
Yuval Vilner -Nocturne in E Flat Major Op 9 No 2
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