Overview
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Use the shape tools in After Effects to create animations that are elegant, render quickly, and scale beautifully at any size.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Overview of the project
- Why use shape layers?
- Basic circle animation reveal
- Stylize the wipe using expansion masks and layer styles
- Creating a cascade animation using masks and modes
- Preparation of artwork in Illustrator
- Dividing to separate shapes and paint over time
- Create a digital squirt
- Composite the final shot
- Preparing instances of text
- Create animated shape layers to reveal each letter
- Revealing text automatically
- Overview of the composition
- Design a cascade sunshine animation using shapes and Trapcode Echospace
- Integrating the animation into the main comp
- Convert artwork to shapes
- Animating the hourglass
- Adding motion to the elements
- Morphing to the glass and the bottle
- Converting to shapes and cleaning duplicates
- Working with automatic rotation animation
- Shape duplication and animation
- What's next?
