From the course: Motion Design in After Effects
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Revealing the emblem
- [Instructor] So I think the wings animation we've created in the previous movie works quite nicely, but I want to accompany it with some animation for the emblem. So, I'll go to the same timing when the wings animation begins: 0:00:01:10. And then, I want to actually animate the lines themselves using another mathematical operator. So, those mathematical operators only works on shape layers, which means that we need to select the layer, and right-click on it, and then use the Create sub-menu over here to create shapes from Vector Layer. So now, I can go to the Add menu, and I can add another mathematical operator; and in this case, I'm going to go with the Offset Path. So I'll scroll down, and reel it down, and I'm going to animate the Amount here. So just so it will be a little bit easier to see what we are doing, let's just Solo these layers, and then scroll down again. And start to drag the amount to a negative…
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