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Animating Blending Modes?
I know that there’s got to be a basic way to do this but I can’t wrap my tiny brain around it.
I have two circles that are parts of a Venn diagram, they come together and the intersection changes color because I have one of the shape layers set to “difference”. I need to pull the circles forward, at different times, to emphasize them, but lose the blending mode.
Is there a way to keyframe the blending mode?
As always, you guys do great work. Thanks again for all of the help!
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I didn’t think that the modes could be animated but I figured that I would ask the experts just to be sure.
Thanks for all the help, Dave!
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as dave says, you can’t animate blending modes between layers…
however, if you wanted to recreate your circle animation using the circle effect (actually 2 circle effects on the same layer), then you can animate the ‘blending mode’ parameter with the effect to change between difference and normal (or any of the other choices). this method will most likely mean redoing the circle animations that you already have, unless you had created them using the circle effect, but who create circles that way anymore 😉
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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Ok, you can’t animate AE blending modes, but you can use BCC composite which has blending modes, and guess what, you can animate them. I really love this filter as it allows you to mix between two blending modes creating some pretty nifty combinations…you can also mix to original effectively removing the blending modes.
Hope that gets you where you need to be…
Mark
Mark Harvey
Senior Editor
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Awesome.
Thanks for all the suggestions guys!
It seems like such a simple chore and I just can’t wrap my head around it for some reason.
I’ll let you know how it goes!
cheers!
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