How To Animate Shorts Like Ali Abdaal (After Effects Tutorial)

Stay in touch! Twitter: Instagram: Portfolio: Inquiries: mapalberenson@ Live Feedback on stream: mapalslivestream@ As requested by a handful of you I have decided to make this video covering the Ali Abdaal style. I’ve come across it before and loved the use of folding paper animations. It’s a fun technique, even more so when you take the time to print your assets rather than making it digitally. The result is super clean and if you’re smart about it you can quickly build up a library of animated assets. Anyways, I hope you learned something new from this video or at least just enjoyed following along! As always, thank you for watching. Ali Abdaal shorts featured in the video: The IKEA effect First computer programmer 4 Things I learned in my 20s Feel free to skip around: 00:00 - Intro 00:06 - Examples 00:20 - Focus areas 01:09 - Gameplan 01:17 - MOST IMPORTANT STEP 02:30 - Working in After Effects 02:40 - Animating The Cutouts 06:33 - Extra Tip 07:27 - Adding Sauce 08:35 - RESULTS 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: Yehezkel Raz - Ballerina Sourced from Artlist (Referral link)