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Quizzler solution two: Stroke drawing direction

Quizzler solution two: Stroke drawing direction - After Effects Tutorial

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Quizzler solution two: Stroke drawing direction

- [Teacher] Our second quizzler involved how do you draw a line around a mask path? And the answer is use the stroke effect which we already showed you earlier. I'll open up the comp, stroke play, click on the layer leaf shapes that has my mask paths on it, I'll press E to reveal the effects, and there's the stroke effect. I'll throw it down and you can see we've animated the end position from zero to 100. That way, the stroke will draw along the mask path. You can also just scrub it to see what it does. I'm going to turn off the mask path visibility so you can see things more clearly now. And there's our stroke. Now how would you get this to draw in the opposite direction? Well you might say animate in backwards, no that'd just draw it off. The solution is actually to animate the start rather than animating the end. You'll see if you just scrub start by itself, it keeps animating in the same direction, however if we were to start at 100 and go backwards, oh that's how we go in the…

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