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Animating bar graphs

Animating bar graphs - After Effects Tutorial

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Animating bar graphs

- [Voiceover] Now, in this video, we're going to focus on how to actually animate these bars into the scene. If you haven't been following along, it's important to understand that when you create a graph inside of Illustrator, there are many different ways you can optimize that graph for import into After Effects. So, if we look in our timeline here, you can see I've actually created five separate layers that devise this graph, and for our animation today, we'll just focus on the white and black layers. So, let's select layer three, and open up its options. And notice I just have transform options. So, under my transform options here, I could adjust, position, scale, rotation, et cetera. But since this is a vector layer, with layer three selected, I could go up under "Layer", and just choose "Create Shapes from Vector Layer". Notice that turns the visibility of layer four off, but it also creates a new shape layer called "White Outlines". So, if I open up that shape layer, in its…

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