An Animated Arrow (Tutorial) To Rule Them All is a new tutorial from Monologue, a motion design studio based in Athens, Greece now sharing tips in English and Greek.
There’s probably more in the sea of Google arrows, but here’s a small fortune of other precious resources for creating and animating 2D and 3D arrows in After Effects…
- In Animated Cartoon Arrows, Brad Chmielewski shows you how to use Trapcode 3D Stroke to create the arrows and lines he did in the Animate Objects music video ”El Dorado.”
- Motionworks creates animated arrows as a finishing touch for a nice long tutorial, After Effects: Jumbotron Column.
- Arrows are often found in stock resources, for example VideoCopilot Evolution, which is a collection of design elements, tutorial, presets, and AE projects that features arrows. Mylenium has a free arrow project that might be handy.
- Zaxwerks Serpentine is an AE filter that creates path extrusions for 3D effects like arrow pointers as well as moving film strips, shooting stars, animated marquee signs, swirling tubes, winding helixes, twisting extruded text, and self-tying ribbons. Less complicated 3D arrows could be done with the usual mass-copying extrusion technique without 3rd-party support.
- AE 3D arrow Tutorial from Being Studios creates a 3D arrow using Trapcode Particular in After Effects (the project file is on Motion Graphics Exchange).
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Map Your Destination in AE by Jorrit Schulte at AEtuts+ uses an arrow to travel a map in AE 3D.
There’s also a Free Animated Vector Arrow Bundle by Stefan Surmabojov for Tuts+ Premium users! To get immediate access to all the tutorials in the TUTS+ network, join the Premium members group for as little as $9.