From the course: After Effects CC 2021 Essential Training: Editors and Post

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Solution, part 1

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Solution, part 1

(gentle chimes) - [Narrator] So the first part of building this challenge was creating the bones of the structure. And so if we look at the reference, you'll see that we have all these pieces flying, and they settle into place. And here, once they settle into place, we can really easily deconstruct how these cells, or these sections, these boxes, were created. I started off by creating some black lines, and all these black lines that you see here were created with shape layers. So let's go ahead and go into our composition, and you'll see that here's the crux of the entire piece. And so let's go ahead and twirl down, and you'll see that inside my contents, I have a shape layer with multiple paths. And each one of these paths represents a line in my composition. So if I turn all these guys off, we're starting to break apart our cells, our sections. So I simply did that by adding in a new line with my pen tool. So I'll…

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