Summary

We are done! Yes, in just one chapter. Don't be surprised; as we said earlier, we've got to be practical here. There's no need to start learning every single tool, panel, action, or expression available in AE, as there are so many things we don't need to know for our Lottie animations. So, we wanted to keep it simple for you.

In this chapter, we've discovered the AE workspace area, talked about the main panels, and got experience with real files with working with compositions, the timeline, and layers. We've been through layer properties, learned what the Parent & Link feature is and how to apply it to our layers, and learned how to create our first animation while explaining how to use keyframes to finally refine it, thanks to ease and the Graph Editor panel.

Looking back to the first part of the book, we've come a long way. We've learned what Lottie is, the principles of animation, and the basics of Adobe AE; we are now ready...