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Importing & converting Illustrator charts to shape layers for animation

Importing & converting Illustrator charts to shape layers for animation - After Effects Tutorial

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Importing & converting Illustrator charts to shape layers for animation

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- If I've said it once, I've said it a million times. Photoshop and After Effects are very well integrated, so if you were with me when we broke up that flat graphic in Photoshop, now's the time when we get that bad boy into After Effects for some animation. So as you can see in my After Effects project, we're starting with a blank project. So let's double click in the Project panel to open the Import dialogue box. Then I want you to navigate in your Exercise Files to the Assets folder. In there I want you to go to the 03_AI folder, and we'll start with this Snow_Lines_AE.ai file, so click on that just once. Don't double click, single click, and then go down to the bottom and change Import As from Footage to Composition Retain Layer Sizes. Make sure IllustratorPDF_eps is not a sequence, and then we'll click Open. So notice, if I open the folder underneath, I've got two Illustrator layers, and if I double click the comp on top, you can see now I've got my composition here, and the two…

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