The Blend Tool in Illustrator…. in After FX?

[Kevin Camp]

you can do it illustrator… there is a tutorial i read a while ago doing this very thing. try searching here, or googling illustrator morph after effects.

basicly, you create you blend in illustrator, ungroup all the vectors, release all the vecotrs to layers (option in the layers palette). in newer illustrators this releases them to sublayers, so in the layers palette pull all your sublayers out of the parent layer and delete the parent. save you illustrator file. now import your ai file as a composition.

you’ll now have a comp with all the illustrator layers as after effects layers. you’ll need to make the comp the length you need and distribute the layers over the length of the comp to get a cell based animation of your illustrator blend.

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Edmondyang]

Thanks for the reply.
But I was thinking like animating it as in runtime in Illustrator. If you got two curves, say one line and one curve, and using the blend tool, you’ll get the shapes between the line and the curve right?

Extracting the shapes in the middle is no problem. But if you drag the vertexes in Illustrator(in runtime), all the shapes in the middle updates. Thats the effect I want to animate in AE…

🙁

[Kevin Camp]

i understand now… without being able to use expressions to link masks from various layers this would be difficult. you can use expression to link other properties like scale and rotation to several layers or to a slider in varying degrees, but you wouldn’t have the same control as moving vertexes on a mask.

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Edmondyang]

You know if there is a plugin for this perhaps?

[Kevin Camp]

i can’t think of a plugin that can do something like that… maybe there is another way? what exactly are you trying to create?

you mentioned an audio wave… i think you can create a sin wave in several ways. aharon robinowitz has a good tutorial on this (he doesn’t use the audio waveform effect), and if you didn’t have the audio to generate his effect, you could link the expressions to a slider for control.

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW