![]() That's because the 'O' shape is made up of two groups, each with a path and a merge path applied. Now you may notice that the animation for the 'O' is doing some strange things. I'll put the end at 100%, and I'll put the offset to 1. This will do one full revolution or rotation of the offset.Ĭlick on the play preview button to preview the stroke animation, which reveals a kind of wrapping line effect. Now, to animate the strokes, go back to the beginning of the timeline and drop a keyframe for both End and Offset. Then use the Eyedropper Tool to match the color of the text layer below (you will need to unhide the layer to do this).Ĭlick on the Add button and choose Trim Paths.Īnd that will put the trim paths at the bottom of all of these groups, which means that the trim paths will essentially affect everything that's above them. Just select the shapes layer, and then click on the stroke button at the top. I'm also going to have the stroke match the color of the text. Hit the Tilde key again to return to the normal view, and adjust the stroke size by changing the Stroke Width value. That way, I can control one stroke for the entire layer, and all the shapes will have this stroke, which makes it easier to animate. Grab all the fills and strokes and delete them.Ĭlick on the Add button and choose Stroke.Īnd that's going to put a stroke down at the bottom of this stack. And if you hit the Tilde key on the keyboard, this will give you a better look at all your layers. To do this, let's expand all of the layers. What I want to do is give it a stroke effect and animate the strokes around the text in an interesting way. You can do this by right-clicking on the layer and choosing Create > Create Shapes From Text, which will create a new shapes layer and automatically hide the original text layer. Now, what I'd like to do is convert this text into shape layers. By doing so, any formatting that might have been done within Illustrator transfers over to After Effects. Or we can simply copy and paste the text directly from Adobe Illustrator into the project. We can do this by using the Type Tool and choosing the same font as what is displayed here. If you want more animation options, we'll need access to the actual text as a text layer. In this project, the text is an imported Adobe Illustrator file contained within a pre-comp. The following assets were used during the production of this After Effects animation lighting tutorial: ![]() What You'll Need to Animate Glow in After Effects Taking an example project, we're going to punch up the text with some awesome text effects and give it a really cool electronic look. ![]() How to Animate in After Effects | FREE COURSE
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