From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 03 Advanced Animation
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Quizzler solution two: Perfect orbit - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 03 Advanced Animation
Quizzler solution two: Perfect orbit
The next Quizzler solution we are going to walk through is how to create this perfectly orbiting motion path. Now one way you can tackle this is indeed you try to craft a perfectly round motion path using Bezier handles and carefully tugging things out and you can do that, but you will spend a lot of time and it's going to be hard to get it perfect. So what other tricks can you use to create this perfect orbit? Well, one of the subjects we discussed in this lesson is the anchor point. We set the anchor point is the center around which all transformations take place, including rotation. Now you might think of well, the anchor point should be somewhere on the layer, but who says it has to be? If you move the anchor point well off to the side and then animate rotation, well, that layer is going to animate around that anchor point, no matter where that anchor point is. So now let's go look at the solution. I'll stop this, open up Quiz - Butterfly Orbit Comp. I'll select my Butterfly layer…
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