From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 03 Advanced Animation

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Idea corner two: Independent slam

Idea corner two: Independent slam

We'd like to leave you with one more idea corner to explore. Again, drawing upon and extending things you've learned earlier in this lesson. Now you might remember this animation from earlier on when we're playing around with hold keyframes. We used to hold keyframes to go ahead and slam the word Reject into various positions and poses and also use hold keyframes opacity to blink the frame that goes round the word Reject. Well, the fact that Reject came as one entire word, it did kind of limit what we can do with it. However, if we have any access or any control over how this file is created, we can make some requests such as hey, could you give me each character of that word Reject as a separate layer in Illustrator or Photoshop? Because if you do that, when I bring it into After Effects, I can animate each layer independently and create a really fun, complex slam-down animation. Well, we've done that for you. Let's go ahead and import a layered version of this Reject. First, I am…

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