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Shape layer intro

Shape layer intro - After Effects Tutorial

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Shape layer intro

that allows After Effects to generate its own vector art within the program. directly inside of After Effects. First and foremost, when it comes to creating shape layers, inside of your timeline. to either of these primitives or our pen tool including solid color, linear gradient, Something like so. Let's enable our stroke options. And instead of white I think I might want a dark green. and note that we have a brand new And because it has a stopwatch this means Which makes this a super powerful tool You'll note here that we have the stroke color. for the shape layer itself. Now this is not to be confused with the layer transform because we can have a separate transform for our shape. because we can have a separate transform for our shape. So here I'm moving the position of the shape So here I'm moving the position of the shape which is inside the layer. which is inside the layer. And the transform for the layer is down here. So you can have two different animatable…

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