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Using Brainstorm to create an animation

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Using Brainstorm to create an animation

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- [Narrator] I have an end pose I like. Now I would like to animate into this end pose. You might remember from earlier After Effects lessons, such as the previous one on paint, puppet, and more that the Brainstorm module inside After Effects is a good way of creating different what-if scenarios or different variations on a theme. Well, Brainstorm can also work on keyframes. This is our final end pose so let's go to where we want our animation to stop, and maybe two seconds. And enable keyframing for all the parameters we might want to animate. I definitely want to animate these different repeater properties cause that's what's created my interesting geometric shape in the first place. And let's go ahead and do copies and offset as well. Zig zag size may be fun, but I don't think I want to animate ridges per segment. Any parameter that causes sudden jumps in my shape when I scrub it will create sudden jumps if I animate that parameter. So in this case, I'm going to leave that alone…

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