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Animating inforgraphics: Fancy pie charts

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Animating inforgraphics: Fancy pie charts

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- Here's another common way you might want to animate the wedges of a pie chart. Like this. Let's take a look in the Preview panel. Here, the wedges kind of grow into position. It's an effect that looks simple enough, but actually, multiple steps are required to set it up. I'll show you how it's done. I'm gonna go to the next page of this file, and I've taken the animation off of one of these wedges so we can see how it's done more clearly. I'm gonna open the Layers panel, and you can see that each wedge has been put in its own layer. I'll isolate our wedge that we're gonna be working on by holding down the opt or alt key, and clicking on the little visibility symbol here. Basically, for this technique we are going to have a wedge that hides this one and moves off position of this wedge. It's going to rotate in a way that makes this wedge look like it's growing. The first step is to duplicate this wedge, because we have to make a copy that will hide this one. There's several ways to…

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