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Manipulating and animating individual points
Hi guys, I have a 8 pointed star. I want to revolve the star, scale it and have 4 points grow outward while the remaining points stay where they are.
Basically I want to know how to manipulate and animate single points on a bezier path. Is this possible?
I have already tried the Puppet tool(fantastic) but it does not give me the results I need.
Can any wise member help out a newbie?Edit: I got the effect I wanted by scaling the stars Inner and Outer points in the shape layer’s attributes for Inner and Outer points of the star.
I could still do with some hints on how how to animate single points.
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if you make your star as a mask on a solid rather than a shape layer, you can manipulate the individual points, however you’ll lose the shape properties (like inner and outer radius).
just create a new solid, then (with that solid still selected) use the same star tool to create the star. since you have a layer selected, it will make a star shaped mask. you can then use the pointer tool to select a point and move it.
to animate that, you’d twirl down the mask properties and keyframe the mask path.
Kevin Camp
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To expand on what Kevin said.
Keep in mind that the keyframes for masks always represent all the points on the mask. There is not a way to individually have a keyframe for each individual point on any given mask…
At least not that I know of… and I’ve never had a need to.
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> There is not a way to individually have a keyframe for each individual point on any given mask…
At least not that I know of…
There are some handy scripts that add this ability.
Here’s one:
https://aescripts.com/bao-mask-avenger… and some here:
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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Ok guys, thanks for the replies so there is no way of animating individual points on a shape.
So if I have a star and I want the effect of one of the points stretching out over time and returning to its original position how would I do that?
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