Ryan Maloney uses the Mr. Ed extension in After Effects to animate a group of toy layers parented to a circle. Instead of manual keyframing, he sets an in point from the right and an out point to the bottom, creating a slide animation in seconds.
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This is how I save time animating things in After Effects. This is an extension or an add-on, I don't know what you would call it. It's called Mr. Ed. Let's say I want this group of toys to animate in from the right and then out from the bottom. I just select that layer, and sorry for the blurry image. All the toys are parented to that white circle right there. The layer looks like this. We'll animate in here and we'll animate out here. In Mr. Ed, I select right and and then I hit in, then I select bottom and hit out. The layer will end up looking like this. This is our in point. This is our out point. And the final looks like this. In.