Adobe After Effects

Creating an Emoji

In this chapter, we’re going to design and animate an emoji. Some say using emojis on the job is unprofessional, and to that I say .

Create an Ellipse Shape

We’ll start with the emoji’s big dumb yellow head.

• Find the Shape tool in the Toolbar, which should look like a rectangle .
• Click and hold on the Shape tool until you see the drop-down.
• Select the Ellipse tool.

With a Shape tool selected, clicking and dragging in the composition creates a new shape layer, which contains your shape. Let’s make a perfect circle in the ...