Animated light sweep, revealing a glowing outline

[Angie Taylor]

Hi there,

There’s a big section in Illustrator Help that explains this. It depends on the type of work you’re doing.

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-62bea.html

Here’s an exceprt.

“You can use the Clipboard to transfer selections between an Illustrator file and other Adobe software including Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign. The Clipboard is particularly useful for importing paths because paths are copied to the Clipboard as PostScript language descriptions. Artwork copied to the Clipboard is pasted in PICT format in most applications. However, some applications take the PDF version (such as InDesign) or the AICB version. PDF preserves transparency; AICB lets you specify whether you want to preserve the overall appearance of the selection or copy the selection as a set of paths (which can be useful in Photoshop [or After Effects]).

To specify copying preferences, choose Edit > Preferences > File Handling & Clipboard (Windows) or Illustrator > Preferences > File Handling & Clipboard (Mac OS). Select PDF, AICB, or both. If you select AICB, select Preserve Paths to discard any transparency in the copied artwork or Preserve Appearance And Overprints to flatten any transparency, maintain the copied artwork’s appearance, and preserve overprinted objects.”

cheers,

Angie

Angie Taylor animation & illustration for television, film, web and devices

https://www.angietaylor.co.uk
Twitter: theangietaylor
Linkedin: theangietaylor
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Angie-Taylor/118378194869002

[Danielle Masek]

That kind of answers my question.
Also, I got through your tut and was applying the light sweep effect but it applied it to the shape of the layer (a rectangle) and not the shape of the path (wings); how do I change this??

**I look down at where you’re standing
Flock of sheep all on display
With all your lies piled up around you
I can take it all away**

[Danielle Masek]

Anyone? This needs to be done by tomorrow. I’ve searched the forums and online and cannot find out how to do this.

**I look down at where you’re standing
Flock of sheep all on display
With all your lies piled up around you
I can take it all away**

[Angie Taylor]

Hi again,

It’s likely that you have an additional mask in there that’s a rectangle the size of your layer. Delete this and make sure “all paths” is selected.

If u want to upload the project I’ll take a look.

cheers,

Angie

Angie Taylor animation & illustration for television, film, web and devices

https://www.angietaylor.co.uk
Twitter: theangietaylor
Linkedin: theangietaylor
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Angie-Taylor/118378194869002

[Angie Taylor]

The All Masks option is in the Stroke effects BTW! Also, check the Online Help for additional help on using the Stroke effect. Good luck! 🙂

cheers,

Angie

Angie Taylor animation & illustration for television, film, web and devices

https://www.angietaylor.co.uk
Twitter: theangietaylor
Linkedin: theangietaylor
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Angie-Taylor/118378194869002

[Danielle Masek]

I’ll check it later. I didn’t have time so I’m handing it in w/out the sweep.
Also I’m getting weird artifacts…like an effect on one layer will show up on another that’s not linked to the effect layer at all. Sometimes I’ll turn the fx off and on and that gets rid of it. Sometimes I have to restart the program. What the hell is this?
Also, in renders fx will show up after they’re keyframed to stop (and they do stop in the timeline and ram preview). What’s going on there?

**I look down at where you’re standing
Flock of sheep all on display
With all your lies piled up around you
I can take it all away**

[Danielle Masek]

Well I had to break up the path into 4 sections…left top wing, left bottom wing, right top, right bottom in order to get the stroke to animate the way I needed, which is from the middle out, both bottom and top, at the same time. Is that why the sweep is not working?
Even when I precomposed the now 4 separate paths, still same weird result.

**I look down at where you’re standing
Flock of sheep all on display
With all your lies piled up around you
I can take it all away**