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Artwork tips and tricks

Artwork tips and tricks - After Effects Tutorial

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Artwork tips and tricks

we'll talk about some tips and tricks that will make working with your artwork in After Effects much more efficient. If you're not aware, of third party tool makers One of those companies is Battle Axe. They make a third party tool called Overlord. In here on their site they describe Overlord as a mystical shape portal between Illustrator and After Effects. let's take a brief look at it. Once you have it installed inside of Illustrator and After Effects, You'll find it under Window > Extensions > Overlord. And this little panel allows you to push and pull only looks at top level layers. underneath one layer. and just tap this one button. Push selection to After Effects. And just like that, we see that Overlord has imported all of these shapes as shape layers and inside After Effects. And more importantly, the layers keep their naming. Again, this is a third-party tool, if you have a lot of Illustrator work or are dealing with a lot of complex shapes. Next, are adjustment layers…

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