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Copying paths from Illustrator

Copying paths from Illustrator - After Effects Tutorial

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Copying paths from Illustrator

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- There's a very useful technique which you can use if you want to copy a path from Illustrator to After Effects to use as masks or position target animations. Since paths actually consist of 2D coordinates, meaning x and y, you can very easily translate the data in order to drive any effect that has a position target, especially those who lives under the Generate category. In this movie, I want to show you how to use this technique using two effects, the Write-on effect and the Glue Gun effect First inside After Effects, I'm going to start with the creation of a new composition. This is going to be a 720p composition with a duration of, let's say, six seconds. I'm going to name this guy Dollar Sign. Let's click OK and let's switch to Illustrator. Here inside Illustrator I have a dollar sign or a coin of a dollar, very rare. Let's say that we want to copy the path that we have over here. I'm going to start with the dollar path by selecting the target layer. As you can see, this is one…

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