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Overlapping colors turn black (or white).
Hello!
This seems like it should be easy, but I just can’t figure it out:
I have a clients logo (Illustrator file) that contains among other things 6 circles in different colors (green, magenta, blue, yellow, purple and orange). I am going to create an animation of this logo, and there will be some movement of the circles where the circles occasionally will overlap. Sometimes only one circle will overlap another, and other times all 6 circles will be partially overlapped. What I want to accomplish, is that all the overlapping areas always are black. I’ve played with transfer modes, but can’t seem to get the desired result.
I have a feeling that this is very easy, but I’m drawing a blank here. If anyone has any ideas how this can be accomplished, I sure would appreciate it!
(I also have a negative version of the logo, where the intersecting areas need to be white, but if I can accomplish black, I can change black to white)Kind regards,
Eric -
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I’m sure someone else will offer a solution but this will work.
If you haven’t already done this, make each circle and individual layer in Illustrator, import as comp into AE. Complete the movement of all circles & name this comp Base.
Now if you have 6 circles, make 5 copies of the comp “base”. Base 1, Base 2, Base 3….
Open Base 1, change the top circle to stencil alpha.
Next open base 2, turn off the top layer, change layer 2 into a stencil alpha. On base 3, turn off layers 1 & 2, change layer 3 into a stencil alpha. Repeat for the 5 base copies.Create final comp, bring in the 5 copies, put your original as the lowest layer(6). For the five copies add the effect “fill” and select the color black. Now on all intersections, the circles turn to black.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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Thank you Johnny, that works great!
I have to leave work now, but when I get back I’m going to try to parent the layers in the copied comps to the layers in the main comp, so that I can make adjustments to the animation and see my black intersections follow immediately.
Thanks again!Kind regards,
Eric
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