From the course: After Effects Tips and Techniques: Shapes, Text Masks, and Path Effects
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Auto-animating shape layers - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Tips and Techniques: Shapes, Text Masks, and Path Effects
Auto-animating shape layers
- Shape layers allows you to create automatic animations which are driven by mathematical operations. So you can do all kinds of nice effects and crazy stuff by adding extra effects, such as the Repeater Operator, which we've seen in the previous movie, or for example the twist effect, or the zig-zag effect, or even the pucker and bloat, which will help you to create very sophisticated and complex animations fast and easy. In this movie, however, we are going to explore the wiggle path and the wiggle transform to add some automatic movement to the main title that we have over here. As mentioned before, the application of these mathematical operators can only work with shape layers. So the first step here is to convert our text to a shape layer. And this is similar to create outlines inside Adobe Illustrator. By that I mean that you should only do it when you've finished with the design and type decisions. In this case, I've selected the main title, the Crazy Summer, and I'm going to…
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