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Animating bar graphs - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Guru: Animating Infographics
Animating bar graphs
- [Voiceover] Now, in this video, we're going to focus on how to actually animate these bars into the scene. If you haven't been following along, it's important to understand that when you create a graph inside of Illustrator, there are many different ways you can optimize that graph for import into After Effects. So, if we look in our timeline here, you can see I've actually created five separate layers that devise this graph, and for our animation today, we'll just focus on the white and black layers. So, let's select layer three, and open up its options. And notice I just have transform options. So, under my transform options here, I could adjust, position, scale, rotation, et cetera. But since this is a vector layer, with layer three selected, I could go up under "Layer", and just choose "Create Shapes from Vector Layer". Notice that turns the visibility of layer four off, but it also creates a new shape layer called "White Outlines". So, if I open up that shape layer, in its…
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Importing & converting Illustrator charts to shape layers for animation8m 23s
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Importing & converting Photoshop files for animation7m 54s
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Animating line graphs8m 36s
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Animating bar graphs5m 9s
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Animating pie charts7m 20s
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Timing animation to audio10m 21s
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