This tutorial breaks down a practical way to animate numbers in After Effects, covering common real-world needs like commas for thousands, decimal places, percentage signs, and currency symbols.
Animated numbers come up all the time in explainer videos, stats-driven content, dashboards, and social graphics, and this approach keeps everything clean, flexible, and easy to update.
You’ll learn how to:
Animate numbers smoothly using expressions
Add commas for thousands automatically
Control decimal places
Append percentage and currency symbols
Keep everything editable without rebuilding the animation
This setup is designed to save time and avoid the usual formatting headaches when numbers change late in the process.
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