• Adobe After Effects

  Making a circle arrow rotate perfecty

  Posted by Keith Henderson on April 9, 2009 at 12:57 pm

  Mabye I missed something, but I have designed a circle with an arrow in Illustrator. I make it have video appeal in photoshop, and finally import into AE. When I rotate the circular arrow, I get a little ‘skew’ (as if it not rotating in the center ahchor point) How do I get it perfect? See it

  Carl Larsen replied 17 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Carl Larsen

  April 9, 2009 at 1:59 pm

  The arrow is rotating about the geometric center of the layer – which isn’t perfectly centered when you add the arrow head.

  You can either move the anchor point manually using the pan behind tool, or you could re import the graphic as two separate layers; one for the circle and one for the arrow head. In the second case simply parent the arrow to the circle and animate the rotation of the circle layer.

  Carl Larsen

  TelescopeMediaGroup.net

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