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Preparations in Illustrator

Preparations in Illustrator

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Preparations in Illustrator

- [Voiceover] Before we'll jump into Newton to create the collision animation that you are seeing here, we need to prepare the shatter pieces inside Adobe Illustrator, and in this movie, I'll show you how to do it. So I'm going to stop the preview and I'm going to double click on this composition which hosts a simpler version of the composition that we just saw, so if I'm going to press spacebar in order to preview, we can see that EACH YEAR words are coming into the screen, and their purpose is to push the ROAD CRASHES text and it should collide with this wall outline. So those are the elements that we need to worry about in this simulation, but in order for Newton to break it apart, we actually need to create a version that has all those tiny pieces that looks like a ROAD CRASHES text over here, and this is, I think, one of the most important tasks, so you need to prepare those chunks in order for the Newton simulator to work with them. So, I'm going to select this layer, and this…

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