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  • Trim paths continuous loop (traveling down road animation)

    Posted by Chris Vo on August 21, 2015 at 8:14 pm

    Hi All,

    I want to do a simple traveling down a road toward a city animation :

    (rough sketch)

    I thought the easiest thing would be to dash a stroke on a shape layer, add a camera and orient the stroke for perspective, then do a trim paths to animate the lines coming toward the camera. However I’ve quickly realized that trim paths isn’t continuous — is there a way to loop it continuously? loopOut? Or is there another approach I should be using? Repeater? 3D stroke?

    Last resort is I’ll create a giant road graphic and move the camera, but I was hoping there was a more pragmatic solution.

    Thanks,

    Chris Vo replied 10 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
  • 3 Replies
  • Chris Vo

    August 21, 2015 at 8:58 pm

    Temporary (actual) solution — I’m just going to make the path really really long.

  • Frank Feijen

    August 21, 2015 at 9:54 pm

    I’d try to make a seamless loop with the offset-effect…

  • Chris Vo

    October 11, 2015 at 6:18 pm

    Seamless loop with offset-effect was the ticket! Thanks, Frank.

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