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Style a RubberHose arm with shape layer operators

Style a RubberHose arm with shape layer operators - After Effects Tutorial

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Style a RubberHose arm with shape layer operators

- [Woman] Okay so we've created an arm for our character, we're now going to style it. Now there are several options for styling, in order to style the arm, you need to first of all select it, so I'm going to select the arm down here, and then we'll open the style panel of RubberHose, we're in the BaseHose style at the moment, but if I choose another example like Edge Highlight, and click on this button, it will style the hose with that new style. And there are lots and lots of styles, for you to try down here, you've got things like Track Suit, which will put these nice, go faster stripes on your arms, and there's lots of really great styles to try, but we're going to choose Tapered Hose, 'cause I want mine fatter at the top, and thinner at the bottom, and I'll click on that, and we get this really fat hose. Now it's a little bit too fat for my liking, so I need to adjust the width of the stroke and as I adjust it notice it adjusts the top and the bottom, the key to this is, if I…

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