Help with an Ayato lesson

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What part are you stuck on?

Hayden
New Zealand

[Kramerican]

Actually I’m stuck at the begining. I don’t know how to do the first two steps, but after that it looks pretty easy. I don’t know to prepare the actual Illustrator file, then doing something to it, then importing in to AE.

[Kramerican]

Well, I have the chinese characters outlined in Illustrator. Where do I go from there?

[X-claim]

Did you make them with the gradient?
(i am not sure if they are supposed to be saved as individual strokes or as the complete image? sounds like it is supposed to be one complete file)
Assuming you did then import them into AE, put them below a white solid as stated.
Put a gradient wipe onto the white layer as shown.
Make the bottom layer the track matte for the layer above…
And take it from there

Hayden
New Zealand

PS if you get stuck the screen shots are really helpful in the ayato tutorials. some of them have taken me ages to do and it has just turned out to be one switch wrong or something simple, but stick at it and they usually work 😉

[Kramerican]

I did not know that the shapes had to be filled with a gradient. Also I guess the way you lay the gradient down (ie. full white to black gradient vs. grey to black gradient) is important because it will result in which characters get drawn first and how fast. It’s pretty cool.

Now I can’t get the blue glow he did to work out. I have the comp put into a new layer then duplicated, and offset by 1 frame. I applied a glow to the layer to an adjustment layer, but the result didn’t look too right.

I don’t know what they mean by “Make only a tip portion using “Track Matte””, and the arbituary map thing.

Thanks