After Effects Tutorial: Animate Any Object or Text Along a Custom Path

Need help animating your motion graphics!? In this exciting After Effects Tutorial, we will create custom paths that will allow you to take any object or text layer and animate along that path. This animation technique will speed up your workflow and make the position key-framing process easier. In this After Effects tutorial, we will animate a vector graphic and a text layer that will wrap along a path.
Use shape layers to quickly create you paths and paste them over to your position parameter. To wrap text along a path, create the mask within your text layer and set the path options to your mask.
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[@avnojista]

If you want your object to follow and ROTATE along the path after you pasted path keyframes, right click object > transform > auto-orient > orient along the path.

[@andredemony]

Boom!

[@shereedillon743]

Life saver! Thank you 🙏

[@enisfetislam]

This is what I actually came for. Thank you!

[@RioDeNubes]

Thank you!

[@kyasuta7195]

Thank you sir

[@lascarnesmalvadas]

This tutorial is amazing, no needless stuff, just the straight up tutorial and so well explained! Loved it

[@TREXYT]

im not getting "path option" option, i would do it with a png image, but even with text it's not appearing (for circular movement)

[@apollogt5506]

make sure you are not on any layer. no layer is selected or highlighted. then use the pen tool to draw your path and open up that layer from the pen tool like he said to copy the path. hope that helps :D

[@benzakonium]

Great video, no waffles, straight to the point and not endlessly repetitive like so many how-tos. Great stuff, thanks.

[@wilkes6623]

Concise and straight to the point - thank you very much for this amazing tutorial video :)

[@Dudek1523]

I've been lookin for a tutorial of this for a couple days without success. Now I finally found one that's very well explained. Thanks, you have a new follower.

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That's gorgeous! It's really quickly and clearly, exactly what you need then you are doing a project and don't want to waste your time!

[@LillySchwartz]

You explained exactly what I wanted to know in 1.5min. Awesome! Thanks man!

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Your tutorials are great - straight to the point and easy to follow.

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this was exactly what I was looking for.
Absolutely liked this video, thanks for this tutorial, buddy!

[@princepjohnson]

Man, thank you for simplifying this so well! Excellent work and very helpful. Thank you.

[@BsERoss]

Amazing, thank you for this! Such a simple thing to do but I had no idea how to do it..

[@sjonphynn]

Thank you! This worked out great for me. Will be checking out more of your content!

[@redcrosses5910]

Thanks, man! Simple and comprehensive!

[@jams2blues]

Thanks for the wonderful tutorial mate! Quick and easy, under 5 minutes like a pro.

[@trianglecoil]

Excellent demonstration, I was able to actually implement what you demonstrated, thank you.

[@swatihere]

Really helpful and effective! Thank you! I can animate objects along a path now.

[@Heathro6250]

Great tutorial- super easy and fast! Thanks.

[@killemwifkindness]

Thanks! This is absolutely short and sweet.

[@HowToAnimateTutorial]

hank you so much for showing this to us! Amazing effect!

[@MinaKoko]

So helpful! Good explanation! Thanks!

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[@SamitShirsat]

Thank you soo much
Needed this since long

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Thankyou. Clear, concise, and to the point.

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Thank you so much! I have been looking for just this feature for a long time.

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Love your Tutorials. 👍

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I like simple and amazing tuts ...
You are simply amazing ☺️

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awesome tutorial. its quick and to the point. great job keep it up

[@idzmotion1474]

Thank you for the wonderful tutorial. really helps a lot.

[@ch33kster]

Better than the rest explaining how to do this. Cheers!

[@rohitsingh7623]

Clear and precise , PERFECT!!

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Great Tutorial, you save me a lot of time on my work! thanks!

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You sir made the best tut for motion along paths, + rep!

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This video was exactly what I've searched for. Thanks a lot, it really helps me.

[@scottshaffer1763]

Brand new to After Effects and your videos have been helped me tremendously - thank you!

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Thank you!

[@Efadh]

this is helpful and easy, thank you.

[@erin5703]

That's very helpful for a learner in the beginning.Thank you.

[@anbalaganramu8454]

Excellent. Very easy to understand. Thank you.

[@prblmsbby9449]

omg thank you!!! i couldn't understand why it was going in a different position. this saved me SO much time!

[@Mr.Paul2dAnimator]

!! Thanks for tutorial, it's use full !!

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Thanks for the reminder on this video!

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amazing and simple tutorial. thank you !

[@kasrasaint]

short and simple. thank you♥

[@danielsambrano3845]

6 years after and this video still have a gold like value

[@lunerishauntingbeowulf]

Thank you so much, this helped me tremendously! Trying to finish my final project and couldn’t get the damn image to move XD this is a lifesaver

[@BioOrganicCatalyst]

I Like how fast you go. Don't have to wait through a lot of dead time to get information.

[@roguespectre9656]

I spent a while wondering what this effect was, and it was driving me nuts not knowing. Thanks man!

[@billrichardson7409]

Very simple and very useful tutorial. thanks

[@bungliejin]

This is awesome!

[@peterkarim6964]

Super useful, thanks man!

[@beautifulworld7940]

Excellent explanation! 👏👏👏

[@charmibhatt915]

Master in explaining! 😀

[@JonneytheKidd]

You are a freakin' Genius! Thank you for taking the time to make this video.

[@soleaux]

thank you so much this is exactly what I needed!!

[@agw421]

tried this tutorial from a lot of other authors. this was the easiest to understand

[@dng501]

Incredibly helpful thank you

[@petrchutny]

Thanks for this one!

[@1WillyDAVID]

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[@astralplane6182]

Great video - thank you!

[@21stCenturyPirate]

great......your tutorials are so easy to understand

[@stargana7585]

but a little fast

[@Vandross01]

Thank you, this helped me alot on animating along a path. Liked and Subscribed. =)

[@sonner9641]

Your voice is relaxing! lol
Thanks for the tutorial :)

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super simple, thanks

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Thanks for making!

[@shauryakumar5939]

Thank man. Great tutorial.

[@D2Kprime]

Nice tutorial. Clear and concise. I will put it to good use. Thank you sir. Have a W. :)

[@raymondpcspangcheeseng7410]

thanks for the teaching

[@adiladila1762]

thanks...its easier than expected

[@nurasyrof]

Clean ! tahnks man :)

[@poojashah3097]

u are a freaking genious and always help me whenever i m stuck thanks so much

[@MeanBeanComedy]

THANK YOU! I was trying to animate a basketball and now it actually looks like an animation of a basketball.

[@McAmber]

awesome tutorial, thx

[@aepeess1]

Omg thank you so much 🙌 u saved my animation 👑

[@mathspointofview3341]

soo easy and i loved it

[@iroouranou6625]

Cool video thanks!

[@SiddheshNan]

great work

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THANK YOU.

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Excellent tutorial, thank you ++++

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Thank you!

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Wow. Thanks!

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Thank you so much

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[@Tom_Dyck_Harry_Steve]

Cool. Thank you.

[@ArmoredScorn]

Dude, thank you.

[@karagosi]

I don't know anything about after effect but i came here because in the software that im learning (blender 3D software) there is this follow a path thing and i have used it when in was creating my first two simple animations for my CZcams channel.
Can't wait to get my hands into after effects.

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thank you!! :)

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very useful , thank youuuu

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Amazing

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