i need more detailes about the Joe Chao,s tutorial of creating paper ribbons and confetti

[Joe Chao]

Excuse me, but could you tell me what problem you had in animating the ribbon? Can you open the project file?

In my tutorial, the animation of the ribbons is decided by the motion of the little solid square in the step

[New_ai]

I think he was wondering about this part:

Copy the data of mask shape and paste it to the position property of the yellow solid layer. Now, you can see the solid move along the path. The black solid is no longer useful, hide it or just delete it.

It’s right at the beginning of your tutorial.
thanks for your help!

ben

[Rashid Shahzad]

first i want guide line about this step .

Open the position key frames, select all of them and adjust the positions of them. Let the motion of the solid begin from the center of the comp. I meant that the first key frame’s position must be (0,0,0)

second one is that the ribbon i creat is not in perfect shape of ribbon it stills solid of the 90 angle on the left side after work on all the steps before above one.so please also guide about this.

third one is that i made my comp with the name of ribbon_1 and the yellow solid is in this compositon then what is in this step that drag ribbon_1 in to it .its also open and have a solid layer ..,so please also guide about this.

Drag the comp “ribbon_1” into it. Convert it into a 3D layer, and don’t forget to turn on the collapse transformation option, which is in your timeline here:

thanks

[Joe Chao]

For the first question,here are the steps:
open the position property in timeline window,go to the the first frame,select all the key frames,move them in the same time ,make the solid at the center of the comp at the first frame.

For the second question,I think your problem is that there is something wrong with your path,especially at the beginning of it.you need a smooth path.when you draw the mask,try the defult smooth path pen tool please.

For the third question.I’m sorry, it seems that there is a line missing!But in my original tutorial there is a line before the paragraph:”secondly, create a new comp and name it as MAIN.”

I’m sorry for having comfused you in my tutorial.If you still had any questions,post them,and I will reply to them as soon as I can.
wish to be helpful.

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