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Revealing using offset paths

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Revealing using offset paths

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- [Eran] Hello everyone and welcome to After Effects Weekly. I'm Eran Stern and today I'll show you a way to reveal dozens of shape layers at once using a single operator called Offset Path. This tape is taken from my course Motion Design and After Effect. Where I'm showing how to animate this poster that started its life as an illustrator file. So check it out if you want to see the entire process. But here we are in the middle of this animation, with few elements already drawing themselves on screen. And now I want to give some love to the emblem graphic on top of these wings. All right, so I will pause the playback. I'm also going to press on the period key to zoom to 100%, then I'll switch off the visibility of the soccer layer, and I'll select the emblem layer. Notice this is an illustrator file. But I want to animate all of those strokes and shape here inside After Effect. So to do it, I'll right click on this…

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