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animate around a circle.
I seem to recall this being pretty easy. I just want a group of stars to move around in a circle. I can’t seem to figure out how to do this the easy way. It seems like you could just create a circular mask and some how get them to travel along that path?
Could anyone fill in the gaps here?
Thanks.
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ha ha. Sure thing. I have this logo. I want the stars to out from behind the logo on the same path, at the same rate of speed, and end forming a circle.
Like this:
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” –Albert Einstein
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I guess that I should add that the stars are all individual .png layers.
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” –Albert Einstein
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Check out Andrew Kramer’s Colorful Universe tutorial… He has an animation preset for a 360 Orbit… Just apply that preset to a layer, duplicate it, and work from there.
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Thanks a million! I’ll see if I can work with that!
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” –Albert Einstein
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One way to do the group rotation thing is to take a null, and apply the Slider effect. Try setting it to 5. Make sure the anchor point of the star layer is at the center of the circle. Then you make an expression for the star layer’s rotation that’s something like “index*slider”, where “slider” is the value of the slider you just made. Then you dupe the star layer a number of times. Each dupe will rotate a bit more than the previous one, since the index of the layer affects how much it rotates. Tweak the slider to make everything work out.
Now in your case, maybe you could animate the slider value from 0 to whatever.
Then you take that circle of stars and precomp it, then rotate it. It might work for you, or somebody may have a simpler solution …
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Thanks Dave and Steve, your methods were far more percise than my own. I’ll definitely use them in the future!
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” –Albert Einstein
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I think this will do what you want also:
https://www.motionscript.com/mastering-expressions/follow-the-leader.html
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