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Animate a vector pattern animation

Animate a vector pattern animation

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Animate a vector pattern animation

- [Instructor] One great thing about working with carefully designed elements from Illustrator is that you don't have to do a lot of complex work to bring them to life. Now, it seems only natural that these pattern forms revolve because of this spiral pattern that we see inside them, and that's what I'm going to set up now. And if my description didn't do it justice, well, let me just show you. So, first of all, I'm going to be fading up the letters in succession. Now, to do that, I want to work with the patterns. That's the visible portion. The forms are now just holding out those... I call them "spirals," but they're really radial arrays. And let me change the color just to make this a little bit clearer. All right, so... Command+Shift+A de-selects, so that's the way I'm doing that. You can also just click somewhere else to de-select. And let's reveal opacity. Again, nearly every layer has transform controls that…

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