From the course: After Effects CC 2021 Essential Training: Motion Graphics
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Path operators on shape layers - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CC 2021 Essential Training: Motion Graphics
Path operators on shape layers
- [Instructor] After Effects can further manipulate a shape layer through use of non-destructive effects called path operators. They can deformed and distort our initial shape. We previously talked about repeater and trim paths. Arguably the two most important ones. Here, we'll take a look at a few other path operators and see how their stacking order is important. So here in this example, I'm just going to take my pen tool, and I'm going to disable my fill. I'm going to click on the word fill and select none. And under stroke, I'm going to make that say solid color. And for my solid color, white we'll do. We'll make it 10 pixels wide. And in the composition window, I'm going to click once at the top left and again at the bottom right, to create a straight line. Now that we have that straight line in there, let's go ahead and twirl down our shape layer. And with that selected, I'm going to add in some new path operators.…
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