From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 15 Creating a Sports Opening Title

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Working with paths and masks

Working with paths and masks

For this element we'd like to animate on these little tick marks over time. This is not as straightforward as it looks. While the tick marks are individual paths inside Illustrator, inside After Effects they all appear on one layer. So let's go get the paths from Illustrator and we will paste them on top of the pixels that you see here. The easiest way to do that is to select the inner ring layer and then select Edit > Edit Original. This will open Adobe Illustrator for you, and that was quick since I already had it opened in the background. So these are the layers I am working with. Make sure you can see the layer panel so you can examine the individual layers. And let's concentrate on the first layer for now, the inner ring. When I twirl down the inner ring layer, you can see the layer is composed of multiple paths, and the last one is the circle. Notice as you select layers inside Illustrator, the artwork on those layers is not actually selected. So if I just click on inner ring…

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