I wondered if I explained myself there 😅

I’ve got a shape that is the letter O, and would like to use it as a mask and transition the opacity of the mask until it fills this half tone pattern. As seen in the screenshot here.

I’ve created this half tone dot pattern that flies in, and would eventually fill the letter O with a mask, I was thinking I could just use the shape layer of the letter O as a track matte and adjust the opacity as the dots fly in to reveal the O but the track matte doesn’t seem to care what the opacity values are.

Is there another way of going…

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Thanks Walter, I’m not sure that particles are what I’m looking for as I have the dots in 100 layers, I thought I might try using Falloff in the Motion plugin to animate these layers in.

My first time here, I’m looking to automate the animation of 100+ layers (these are ellipses in a half tone pattern) in a more sophisticated way than doing them individually. Apologies if this has already been discussed.