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How can you animate dot wave made in illustrator (.ai or .eps) in after effects
Hello,
I bought an .eps file on shutterstock and I was wondering if I can animate this in after effects as a kind of continuous wave in loop of about 10-20sec. When I convert the file to shape layers I come up with over 1000 groups, which means that every dot becomes a shape. Does anyone know how to handle this?
Thanks in advance
J
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2 Replies
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Stardust has a particle generator template similar to this.
Great plugin for AE.
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If you have access to trapcode form you can create and do this in a snap. If not you could fake it by placing those dots in a precomp and a mixture of “distort” effects applied to them, like turbulent displacement, bulge and so on. They won’t be moving truly in 3D but you could probably get a look pretty close.
Otherwise, it would probably be possibly with some serious expression work. Something that moves 1 dot in all three axis and then near dots look at that dot for cues on how to follow, but that’s a level of coding beyond me.
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