Animation Tips Central

After Effects, Illustrator and more…

• Lottie Notes
• Expressions in After Effects
• Tools and Resources
• Composition Crop to Area of Interest
  Composition > The crop comp to region of interest
• Tips and Shortcuts working in After Effects
  Pre Compose Shift + Command + C Hold alt key while creating parametric shapes to automatically convert to bezier Merge Paths similar to Illustrator’s pathfinder. Mode: add, subtract, etc Option + Command + Home to position anchor in center Shortcuts: https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/keyboard-shortcuts-reference.html A – Anchor Point … Read more
• After Effects Path Operators
  Repeater Set center of composition. Select layer (not shape) > Repeater, set position: ‘0’ (so copies are on top of each other.) Set rotation on repeater 45° Go to Shape > Transform > Position (Y) -90, in this case. To reposition, set layer (original shape).