From the course: Prototyping Microinteractions with After Effects
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From the course: Prototyping Microinteractions with After Effects
Illustrator
- [Instructor] Moving Illustrator line art into After Effects is a rather uncomplicated process, even so, just keep in mind, Illustrator is a vector application and designing a whole UI in Illustrator is pretty close to lighting your barbecue with an atom bomb. There's a lot of wasted energy. When it comes to micro-interactions, creating buttons, icons, and logos that may change during the micro-interaction in Illustrator, it's a great use case, even then, how you prepare the Illustrator file totally depends on its use. If it is going to have a color change or distortion, then the file needs to be set up a whole lot differently than were it is just simply move, shrink, and so on. Let's see what I mean. To get yourself started, open the Feedback.ai file found in your chapter download. So what we have here is a feedback icon. And if we look at the Layers panel, we can see that it consists of three paths. If all you want to do is to plug this into After Effects and move it around, grow…
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