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Animate live type from Illustrator

Animate live type from Illustrator - After Effects Tutorial

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Animate live type from Illustrator

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to bring live type from Illustrator and animate using a built-in preset inside After Effects. So this is what we have so far. We have our radio animation, and we are missing some element. Not sure if you remember it or not, but I'm here to remind you. And in order to do so, I'm just going to solo the last layer over here. This is the original artwork, and it also have a tagline for the music. So in order to reproduce the same design over here as well as animate it, I'm going to select the layer and then go to the edit menu and choose Edit Original. And this should open it up inside Adobe Illustrator. And we already seen the logo layer. I'm going to collapse it, and I'm going to select the tagline and expose it, so we can see that we have a live type over here. Now, for what it's worth, I'm using the Myriad Pro, and the weight is set to light italic. In case you don't have access to this font, you can choose an alternative and continue…

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