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[Matias Cambareri]

Thanks for answer Dave. I need to make it again because i need to plot data from another city.

[Matias Cambareri]

Dear Dave, the point is the Image was not elaborated by me. I was wondering if after effects is the software used to do it and how can i do it.

Thanks!

[Greg Gesch]

Hi. Trim paths could do what you want – what do you mean by “I have no results”?

[Matias Cambareri]

Dear Greg, i can’t to anímate each column one by one. With trim paths, i am no tablet to do this, even selecting the option “individually”. I think could be because i made all the columns as a vector (in illustrator) and after i imported and converted to shapes???
Help please!!!

[Greg Gesch]

I see. Each column would need to be separated to have them grow individually (and now that I look at it they are wedge shaped so Trim Paths might not work). As Dave says AE needs some time to learn so the easiest way I can think of to use your current single shape would be to animate a mask (or masks) by keyframing the Mask Path setting – you will need to precompose the shape layer. If the shape is totally separate from the background, grids, lettering etc. then it might be easier to mask the Illustrator image and you won’t have to precompose or use the shape layer at all. By far the easiest way (if the shape is totally separate as above) would be to simply use the Linear Wipe effect. It wouldThey would not grow from the centre but from the side and across. I would suggest trying this first to see if the look is acceptable as any other option is time consuming and can be complicated.

[Greg Gesch]

Apologies I meant the Radial Wipe effect.

[Matias Cambareri]

Thanks for answerig Greg. I will try this way… (at least for my work). Maybe i will do a AE course soon.. 😛

[Max Haller]

This will probably be tricky if you’re new to after effects. But i think trim paths could work.

You need to make each slice as a separate shape layer, and use one of the slice layers as an alpha matte on top of a very thick colored line (on a separate layer) then when you animate the trim path effect to fill that slice, the line will only show up where the alpha matte is present.

On top of the alpha matte layer, place another slice layer but one that has the lines in place. With some tweaking i think that would work. Once you have one of the slices working, duplicate it and rotate it to fill out the the rest of the chart.

I’d recommend making a null object to use as a control layer also so you can animate the values easier. On the control layer I’d put an expression slider for each trim path effect. Then pick whip the trim path value to the expression slider. This way you won’t have to hop around many layers to animate.

[Matias Cambareri]

Thank you Max! Seems easy but… i think i will need inquire more on null objects so. I tried to do something like that and i ve realized that i had to animate each layer separadly.

Regards

[Matias Cambareri]

Sadly, i can´t do it 🙁