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Preparing charts & graphs from Illustrator for animation

Preparing charts & graphs from Illustrator for animation - After Effects Tutorial

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Preparing charts & graphs from Illustrator for animation

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- While we can create charts and graphs rather quickly in Illustrator, there are a few little things we can do to prepare those graphics for animation. So as you can see, we have a graph here that's been created inside of Illustrator, but it's not ready for animation. I want to clean things up a little bit, maybe change the typeface, make these axes lines a little darker, you get the idea. In order to see things more clearly, I want to go to my tool palette here on the left hand side, and select the Art Board tool. Then, go up to the top part of the interface and deselect the center mark crosshairs and video safe areas. Then let's go back and grab our selection tool. Now with the selection tool active, we can just click on any part of the graph to select absolutely everything. With everything selected, I can come up and click on the word character here in the top of my toolbar, and let's click on the pull-down and change the typeface. I want to change it from Myriad, to, let's say…

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