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Enhance an illustration with lightning

Enhance an illustration with lightning

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Enhance an illustration with lightning

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- [Instructor] There are lots of effects in After Effects that can generate artwork from nothing but a blank layer. In this example we'll add some lightning to an illustration. Now if you're following along, we'll be in folder one of the chapter three folder in the exercise files. In here I have two After Effects project files. The aep file is for those using the 2018 Creative Cloud version of After Effects, and the aepx file can be imported into earlier versions of After Effects. And since I'm using the Creative Cloud version 2018, version of After Effects, I'll open the aep file. And so now once you have the file open, or imported, you'll see in the project panel we have a folder called Linked Art. You'll also see we have a series of png files imported from the assets folder in the exercise files. And there's also a composition showing up inside of the Linked Art folder. Down in the timeline panel you'll also see that composition showing up here on the top layer, in addition to some…

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