Take these, and try them out on your next project to bring yourself one step closer to becoming an AE pro! Now remember, this project is just to get you acclimated with the shape modifiers in Shape Layers. Voila! You’ve got yourself a cool little rising smoke animation. At the beginning of it, create a new keyframe for -15. Tap the stopwatch icon to toggle keyframes, and drag your -5 keyframe to the end of the composition. You can round out the corners of your rectangles with a little Round Corners modifier.įinally, to make the smoke look like it’s rising, go back to Repeater one and hop in the Offset settings. Now it’s got that smoke stack motion we’ve been looking for.Īll we’ve got left is to merge all of the layers with a Merge Paths modifier, which should be placed underneath the entire layer. Inside the transform properties of the modifier, change the X position value to -29. Place it under your Repeater modifier, and change the Wiggles/Second to. For this, we will be using the Wiggle Transform modifier. Now it’s starting to take shape! Make it Wiggle Close down the drop down menu, and change the Offset parameters to -5. Now, change the Position keyframes by changing the X position to 0, and Y to -59. Go to the transform properties of the repeater, and change the X value to 112 after unclicking the link check box. Open up the Repeater settings, and change the number of Copies to 60. Remember, place it underneath the rectangles, since it will affect anything above it, but not below. Select Repeater, and place it under both of your rectangles. Right next to the Contents part of your shape layer, there’s going to be a drop down menu for Shape Modifiers after you click the Add button. Now, both of your rectangles within your shape layer are ready for manipulation. Change the X scale to 45 and the Y position to -29. Now, go to your duplicated rectangle and open up its scale settings. Remember to only duplicate this one shape, not the entire shape layer that it is nested within. Now, duplicate this one specific shape layer after closing down your drop down menus.
Now, change the X axis to 150 and the Y value to 30. Go into the rectangle path drop down menu within the shape layer, and deselect the scaling clickbox next to the X and Y axis. To start it off, you are going to want to create a rectangular shape layer. This example is going to help you get the hang of using shape manipulators so you can incorporate it into your own projects. Locate the PNG image sequence you wish to. We are all here to help and learn together.Īnd, if you really want to get into music visualization.For this tutorial, we are going to be creating a nice smoke animation that will be spilling out of a neat little robotic house. In After Effects go to File Import File or double-click in the Project Window to open up the Import Window. Don't be shocked if you post your masterpiece and people have a few useful suggestions for you. As such, we encourage an atmosphere of helpful critique. This community is meant to be a place of helpfulness. If you are here for a critique of your work Screenshots and/or videos of the thing you want to create It includes things such as:Įxact version of AE you use - not just "CS6" or "CC" or even "CC 2019", but the actual version number (for example, 11.0.4 or 12.2.1 or 13.2.0 or 13.7.2 or 13.8.1 or 17.0.2) However, for useful help, please provide as much info as possible. Once you've gone through that, here are some other helpful resources: A foundation in the basics now will prevent much frustration later. If you'd like to join us on Discord, you can do it here! Are you looking for critiques for your piece or are you showing off someone else's work that you've found that is inspirationally excellent? If you post a video, please explain in the title of your post why you're posting it. We are not here to be sold to or spammed, so no posting of your AE templates, please. We're here to help with your After Effects problems, critique your pieces, and sometimes provide a spot of inspiration. Don't downvote a relevant submission you simply don't like kindly explain in a comment how it could be improved - anonymous downvotes don't help anybody.