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Quick tip in under two minutes: Creating simple but complex-looking animation in minutes

Quick tip in under two minutes: Creating simple but complex-looking animation in minutes

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Quick tip in under two minutes: Creating simple but complex-looking animation in minutes

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- [Narrator] In this short tape I'll show you how you can create complex looking animation in few minutes, using repetition, in After Effects. The first example here is a comp where I have a spinning, cyan, crescent shape around this triangle. Now, I'm using the time expression, for the rotation, to make it spin forever. So, to quickly repeat it, I'll select it in the timeline and add the repeater operator. I'll set it to animate from 1 to 12 copies over a second. Then, I'll drill down the repeater transform properties, 0 out their position, change the rotation to 30 degrees, and set the anchor point to 50 for both X and Y. So, the copies will be generated from the center of this composition. Now, I'll preview the comp. Then, I'll unshy the other layers here, which has the same repeater applied to them with different values for the copies and the anchor point to compensate their position. And if you want to make…

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