From the course: After Effects CC 2019 Essential Training: Editors and Post

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Animating mask reveals

Animating mask reveals - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects CC 2019 Essential Training: Editors and Post

Start my 1-month free trial

Animating mask reveals

- [Instructor] As with most everything in After Effects masks can be keyframed to create animated reveals, and are another building block to creating engaging animations. Here, we'll take a look at some ways to animate masks inside a composition. I've got a layer here that's inside a printing press, and as you can see these machines are moving, and I'd like to create a circle wipe of sorts to reveal on this footage. I can do that through masks. Let's go ahead and select this layer name, and come over and with our Ellipse Tool let's click and drag from the center, and as we do, let's go ahead and Shift + Command this guy, and click and drag it until it's outside the bounds of the frame there. We'll twirl down the mask and create a brand new keyframe for the mask path, and I'd like this to be the end point. So, let's go ahead and move this down to say frame 20 somewhere and at frame zero let's go ahead and switch over to our Selection Tool. We'll double click and let's go ahead and…

Contents