Animated Circle Bursts in After Effects

For the past several weeks I’ve been getting back into doing my daily creative explorations. Instead of doing one drawing a day, I am focusing on learning more about Adobe After Effects. I spent between 45 minutes to an hour a day for 2 weeks to create these animated circle bursts.

The main functions I’ve been playing around with are shape layers and animating their properties; size, scale, rotation, stroke width, and opacity. From there, I added a repeater to each shape and made duplicates in a radial fashion. I added an easy easy to each keyframe and played with the graph editor curves to create more visually appealing motion.

This is a pretty straight-forward technique that can yield really beautiful results. To learn how to create these circle bursts I checked out tutorials by premiumbeat.com and  ECAbrams, http://evanabrams.com/.

Sound File: Reflex Rhythm by Loopmasters