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  • animating a line

    Posted by Alister on May 26, 2006 at 7:39 am

    Is there any way i can animate a line at a pretty controlled level, or draw and mess with a vector line graphic in AE? Im trying to show a string that goes from wavy to straight ( a man picking up a string and pulling something)…requires controlled organic movement of a vector graphic. Does anyone have any ideas- can this even be done?

    Most appreciative!

    Alistair Liddell replied 19 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Alistair Liddell

    May 30, 2006 at 4:44 pm

    create a solid layer then draw a straight line as a mask stroke the mask using efect_render_stroke_mask then add loads of points move allong the time line create another keyframe for mask shape then mess up your straight line by puling these points out, then select both keyframes and rightclick and reverse keyframes so that line starts wigelly then straightens out.

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