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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
March 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
399 pages
2h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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Nesting precomps and using the pen tool

Lets create a background for your shapes:

  1. Go up to the top of the panel and choose Layer | New | Solid
  2. Move this new solid to the bottom of your composition layers
  3. Next lets create a main comp to bring all our assets into

So, after creating a new comp, name it main comp and then we can apply the same settings as we did in our first comp. To bring a precomp into another composition simply locate the precomp in your project window and drag it down into your main comp:

Drag precomp

Now you should see one precomp in your main comp. Let's further adjust this precomp. Get your pen tool:

Pen tool

We will ...

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