From the course: After Effects for Graphic Design
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Shapes with radio waves
From the course: After Effects for Graphic Design
Shapes with radio waves
- [Instructor] In this lesson, we'll create a line art pattern with a star shape using the radio waves effect, and for this lesson, we'll create the serial plane effect using only After Effects. So, in an untitled project inside of After Effects, the first thing that we'll do is come up to the composition menu and come down and choose new composition. From this dialogue box here, we'll come in here and set the width and height to 3000 pixels. Make sure we're on square pixels. Resolution is full and for the time start code, we'll leave it at zero and for the duration, we're gonna set this to 10 seconds. This is one of those effects, like earlier ones that we've looked at, where the effect is actually an animation. So let's come in here to the duration and let's set the second to last set of numbers to 10. So this will give us a 10 second timeline. The last two numbers here are the frames. For the background color, I'll leave this black, and then let's choose okay. And so, now we have…
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