Trouble making a trail of dots.

[Mathew Fuller]

Your link doesn’t work… but a trail of dots can be made quite easily in about a hundred different ways.

Particular
3D Stroke
Masks

Take your pick.

My Work:
https://www.morecompletefx.com

[Joseph W. bourke]

Dom –

I generally have very good luck using Type on a Path. It’s a simple matter to choose the typeface which gives you the dot shape you want (square or round, generally), then just type a bunch of Periods. You can then select and space them however you want, and then animate them along the path if need be (I couldn’t get at your example). Here’s a rundown of text on a path, in case you’re not familiar with it:

https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/animating-text-along-a-path-in-after-effects-ae-basix/

This has always been the simplest solution for me, and it gives me a huge degree of control.

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Dom Constantine]

I knew linking a facebook video was a bad idea. Here’s a fixed link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6gO6w7jXJA&feature=youtu.be

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[Dom Constantine]

Thank you! I will try the type on a path versus using the mask path which is providing to be a headache for what I’m going for.

[Ridley Walker]

Or you could use shape layers with dashed lines round joins and animate the offset.

6396_dots.aep.zip