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Using the Repeater to create an end pose

Using the Repeater to create an end pose - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 14 Shape Layers

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Using the Repeater to create an end pose

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Let's say you are supposed to create an animated logo for a client, but you are just having trouble getting inspired. Let's explore a couple of different ways you can use shape layers and other parts of After Effects to help you out. If you have the exercise files, open up the comp 07-Brainstorm*starter. Let's say you have already gotten this far. You start off with a simple rectangle, you give it a nice gradient fill--and again, you can edit the gradient and the opacity as required-- and you even used shape effects to give it a more interesting geometric look. I will twirl this open and you see Zig Zag has control over how much you push out the side segments, as well as how complex the final shape is. That's a little crazy. Let's go back to 1. Sometimes simplicity works very nicely. Well, this is nice, but it's just one shape. You want to have something more to it and you want to have some movement. Well, what can you do? Well, here's one idea, and that's to fall back on a shape…

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