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Morphing a letter into a logo
Please forgive me, I am extremely new to After Effects. I am morphing a letter into a logo using mask paths. While morphing the two shapes, there are anchor points from the original letter I do not need for the logo shape. However when I delete them, the original letter shape is changed. Is there a way I can delete anchor points without altering the shape of the original form?
Thank you.
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First of all, be careful with the terminology: Anchor points are something entirely different in After Effects. The term for mask path points is ‘vertex’.
That said, why is it important for you to delete these points?
Are you using smart mask interpolation?
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/animating-shape-paths-masks.html#animate_a_mask_path_with_smart_mask_interpolation
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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Sorry, you need those vertex’s to create the shape. You will need to figure out how to have the same amount for both the letter and the logo.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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No I’m not, but that looks like it will help. I need to delete the points simply because there are too many of them and the path is not smooth. I am taking a letter, and morphing it into a logo, then making that logo change shape. (The logo is an animal and it has to sit, run etc.) The shape of the mask path is constantly changing so I am adding and deleting vertexes, trying to make it move as smoothly as possible.
Also, when I pasted my mask shape from Illustrator, the layer shrunk to the size of the mask. Whenever I try to make the layer larger, it makes the mask shape larger as well. Is there a way to enlarge the layer without effecting the mask shape?
Thank you for any assistance and please forgive my terminology and lack of knowledge.
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