From the course: Trapcode Form: Making UI Elements
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Using sprites to create the analysis squares - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Trapcode Form: Making UI Elements
Using sprites to create the analysis squares
- [Instructor] Folks in this chapter, we're going to look at using Sprites, which are custom particles for Form. This allows you to go absolutely nuts and create all kinds of delightful and unusual things with Trapcode Form. In this tutorial, specifically, we're going to be looking at these squares over here on the right-hand side that appear to be like processing data of some kind. Now, there are two main components here, even though we're going to be using three Forms. There's the blue squares in the background that form kind of like the base grid, and there's these red squares with brackets around them that appear to be, like, identifying pieces of data, and these are obviously custom Sprites. So let's go ahead and get started over here in the status bar comp, there's this analysis squares solid I've created for you and already applied Form to it. I'm going to open up the Base Form, and to make the grid of blue…
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