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Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC
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Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC

by David Dodds
April 2019
Beginner to intermediate
318 pages
2h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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Parenting and null object animation

Now we are going to animate our designs. We have created designs that lives in a precomp. Double click on the first precomp we made. In this precomp you have a nested comp and a solid layer you made for your background. Select and center the top precomped shape layer.

  1. Press the R button to reveal the rotation parameters
  2. Go to the left and hit the stopwatch for the rotation parameter
  3. Move 90 keyframes down the to the right in the timeline
  4. Scrub the rotation parameter

This will automatically create a keyframe:

Animation rotation

Go back into the main comp and press the spacebar to preview your animation. ...

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