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Animating pie charts

Animating pie charts - After Effects Tutorial

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Animating pie charts

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- [Voiceover] In this video we're going to focus on how to animate pie charts. Now, just so you can see how I built this pie chart let's go ahead and double click on the 01_Pie_Chart_Shape Comp in the Project panel then in the timeline select Layer one and press Command + E on the Mac or Control + E on Windows to edit the original file. Make sure you're in the Essentials layout, and go down to your Layers panel, and make sure it's active, and then click the selection target on the right side of the Pie_Chart Layer. Now we can hover over the Pie_Chart Layer and just right click or Control click and go to the Data section. In here this is where I entered the Data that I wanted to add to create my pie chart. Once you added enough pieces of the pie you can literally just go over here and click the Apply checkbox and it'll generate the pie shape. Now if I expand my Pie_Chart Layer, here, notice it's just a grouped Layer. Now, I could expand this even further by ungrouping this Graph Layer…

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