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Animating masks

Animating masks - After Effects Tutorial

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Animating masks

Next let's animate one of our masked shapes. I'm going to bring on a title and animate that on using masks. I'm going to press Home to make sure I'm at the very beginning of my composition, and if you have the exercise files that came with this lesson, I am going to go Project, scroll down to my Sources, and drag in the title Bring on the Night. I am going to drag it to roughly to the middle of my composition, there we go. If you don't have the exercise files feel free to bring on any other layer, a piece of text, go ahead and create text layer, whatever you like. This particular Illustrator file was created with black text, which makes it a bit hard to read. So to make it easier to read against these backgrounds I'm going to go ahead and fill it with the color. I can use the Effect menu. I can never remember where Fill is in the Effect menus. So I am going to go to Effects & Presets panel and type Fill. Ah, there it is. It's there in the Generate menu. Drag it on to my title, change…

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