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Automatic animation

Automatic animation - After Effects Tutorial

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Automatic animation

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Our goal in this exercise is to create a random abstract animating shape akin to into this animated bar that I created earlier. Now you're probably use to looking at shape layers and thinking, Well, they are hard-edged vector art. How do you create something like this? Well it's done really that hard. If you have the exercise files, open up the comp 05-Abstract*starter. If you don't have the files, it's pretty simple. You just go ahead and make a rounded rectangle, give it a separate fill and stroke. I'll select the layer, and in this case I've made the fill 50%, just so I get some more interesting color variations when copies of the shape overlap. I'll click OK. The first thing I want to do is create some automatic movement in this layer. Now as I mentioned earlier, underneath the Effects & Presets, inside Animation/ Presets/Behaviors, you do have effects such as Wiggle - position. The problem is this moves the entire layer, but what we want are a bunch of individual shapes on the…

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