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Repeating graphics with Trapcode Echospace

Repeating graphics with Trapcode Echospace - After Effects Tutorial

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Repeating graphics with Trapcode Echospace

- Now here's another great plugin for creating repeating patterns and shapes. It's made by Red Giant and it's called Trapcode Echospace. It's part of the Trapcode Suite and it's a lot of fun once you actually start playing around. As you can see you can build really complicated looking shapes with relative ease. So let me go ahead and minimize this and we'll look at our project. You can see layer one, if I press U to reveal keyframes, already has animation applied to it. I have these two pencils that are spinning. Now before I start duplicating this it's always a good idea to go ahead and pre-compose the graphic. So here I'll select my graphic, go up under Layer, and choose Pre-compose. I wanna Leave the attributes because I'd like to be able go ahead and make changes to this rotation if I need to in the future. So I'll Leave all attributes in CircleDraw, and let's rename the new comp, we'll just call this Circle_Pre, and click OK. So now I'm ready to actually duplicate this. Now to…

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