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Exploring mask options

Exploring mask options

Simple masks like the ones we looked at in the last movie are very helpful, and they do come in handy, but when you understand mask options, the options that you have with masks, they just really unlocks a whole new world with them, become much more powerful. So, we have here this cute little fishy animation. And there are some bubbles here. By the way, these bubbles are created with an After Effects effect called Foam. So, we have these cute little bubbles here. And if we click on this Orange Solid layer, really this is an orange solid with a mask applied to it. And also, by the way, this shape was created by copying and pasting a path from Photoshop onto this layer, and this is what was created. If I press the letter M, I can reveal basic properties about the mask, including the Mask Path, which is what we are going to animate here. If I go out to, I don't know, maybe about a second in here, I am going to click the stopwatch for Mask Path and we can animate the shape of this mask…

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