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Repeating graphics with Trapcode Echospace - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Guru: Keyframe Assistants
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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Installing third-party assistant scripts2m 59s
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Understanding LayerMonkey and TypeMonkey6m 14s
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Building animation with TypeMonkey10m 28s
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Building custom animations with LayerMonkey9m
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Building animation with MotionMonkey3m 53s
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Combining LayerMonkey and MotionMonkey10m 51s
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Exploring Ease and Wizz4m 45s
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Positioning layers with PlaneSpace4m 23s
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Repeating graphics with Trapcode Echospace7m 14s
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