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Additional shape presets

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Additional shape presets

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- [Instructor] When you install After Effects it comes with some animation presets for Shape layers. However, this is but a fraction of the presets that Adobe makes available. The rest are up on Adobe Exchange. So search for Adobe Exchange, it'll be the first thing that turns up. You'll see that there's separate sections for each program, go to the one on After Effects, and there's going to be a number of Expressions, Displacement Maps, Animation Presets, Plug-Ins, Templates, Scripts, Stock Footage, et cetera. Just go ahead and search for shape presets, Search, and the first thing that it'll turn up are these Additional animation presets for After Effects. They include some really great per-character 3D text animations that Trish created, plus a bunch of shape presets that I mostly created. Download them, drag them into your presets folder, it's sitting right next to the program After Effects, and next time you start or reload your Effects & Presets they'll be added to your menu. And…

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