Magic Shapes

[Michael Szalapski]

This tutorial here on the COW may help you.

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[Shehab Saleh]

i’ mean path not a ready shapes back to video in post

[Michael Szalapski]

Are you asking how to draw the shapes?

You can draw them in Illustrator, then use masks in After Effects to reveal them over time.
Or, if you don’t want to use Illustrator, you can simply draw them in After Effects using the pen tool on a shape layer or a solid.

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[Shehab Saleh]

How I mask shape from illustrator to AE If the shape is arrow
on AI i’ Convert shapes to layers then transfer to AE But , when i import a layer from ai I’can’t Edit the shape after mask it
i’mean i want set keyframe 1 sec’ like this : ___ then set keyframe in 3 sec’ like this : ___________________ (if the shape from AI importing ican’t )

thank you……

[Michael Szalapski]

In AE you can use Auto Trace to make masks out of shapes drawn in Illustrator, which could be edited. However, if you want to grow arrows there are a few other techniques out there. The question of how to grow arrows was actually asked the same day you asked your question. Here’s that thread. There are some links in that thread that should help you.

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[Shehab Saleh]

Ok ! i understand you but in the grow for arrows mmm.
please if you can do this in 5 sec’ please doit like this link but first 5 sec’ or slow moving for 10 frames for this video
https://www.hippiehouse.tv/motion/popup/forman.html
i want AE project For above link for 5 sec or 20 frames if you can

thank you mr.Michael Szalapski
Shehabxx2004@yahoo.com

[Michael Szalapski]

There are several reasons I cannot do that. For one thing I do motion graphics for a living, I’m not just going to do somebody else’s work for them for free. For another thing I don’t have any idea what you want it to say, or how you want it to move. Your project, no doubt, is different from this one and needs its own things. I could perfectly recreate this video, but it would be a copyright violation and it wouldn’t be what you need. And finally, in NTSC video there are 30 frames per second, PAL there are 25 frames per second. I’m not sure how I would do 5 seconds or 20 frames.

If you can’t follow the tutorials and suggestions here, you might consider doing something else for this project, taking some time to learn the program more and trying this again when you know After Effects better. Or you could look to see if there are any available freelance artists who you could pay to do this.

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[Shehab Saleh]

thank you for Teach me..