Hi guys and I hope it has been an amazing journey since the beginning of the course.
I hope also you'll learn a lot.
And you are still learning more in this lecture what you want to do is to explore a bit.
The stroke force shape shapes have a very special stroke in aftereffects which is totally different
from the stroke four characters you know or text.
So let's draw here for example an ellipse and then it's with them I will click in the middle control
shift and make a perfect circle.
Now after I do the circle you notice that the anchor point is somehow not in the middle of the circle
because this is the lead.
What I can do is to press control alt delete and home to get the anchor point in the middle of the circle
and in the middle of the letter but not in the middle of the composition please good.
So now we have a circle if you can to elipse that's the content we found here that we have a stroke.
Now the stroke is set for 15 and we don't have any feel fine.
Let's drill down the stroke and we notice we have color we can keyframe the color let's start from there.
Keyframe in this color and then move here and change the color to blue for example.
Now also move again and change the color of.
Another thing I said is right let's play our animation now.
This is not a whole keyframe.
So it's not going to jump colors it's going to go to the next color using the palette and it's very
cool.
So now you can only make the color of the stroke and you have a lot of options here.
And you can have it like this Colyton or going very bright and very dull.
Later on we learn how to use blurred and how to use other effects that would make the Slocombe really
fantastic.
Let's also now turn down the stroke and see what's happening.
You notice here now I have a color scheme that I can really use with my keyframes.
I can come here also put another keyframe and so on to change clothes.
If you put the frame in between here and you change the color to the said this color you're not is you
are adding more let's make it more you know obvious.
Let's go for Green.
Yes.
Very bright.
Here you are you're moving colors and you can change the way you want.
If you play it that will be made nice.
Good now you know about the color I was put the timeline indicated in the beginning and remove the keyframes
on the color opacity you know but this is the opacity of the stroke which is a pretty nice because if
you had the feel they say we have this feel white you are only working on the opacity of the stroke
and not the opacity of the whole layer.
So in other you can remove and put the opacity of the stroke itself which is very interesting.
Let's move the field again and just go back to stroke with.
Now you're not as I have here a different would give them here put that zero for example come after
a few frames and make it pretty big.
Then I come back at 1 second for example make a zero again.
No not is the effect.
So if you combine this with the color effect let's give keyframe the color here.
Move another frame change the color to bright blue.
Move the keyframe and change the color.
In fact it's not necessary but we will change it here to this color.
Here you are not just what's happening.
It is extremely beautiful what is happening here.
You can create some fantastic animations.
Let's make it very slow.
Plus alternates and the brain get to three seconds.
Here you are.
You notice what's happening when it's glowing in and out.
Also the preset glow will help a lot here that we'll be using later on.
So these are quality admission's.
We are going to use them.
So please keep them in mind.
This is just an introduction.
There are a lot of tricks you can play here.
Slowly slowly I will introduce all of them during the course.
Then you have your line up and line join will work with this as soon as we will investigate the dashes.
So what I will do I'll just come over here and remove the stroke with the stroke means to 15.
OK.
So we have only one but I will come to dashers you know nothing nothing happened here for that is when
I turn it down.
I will use the pass and give me here 10 10 meaning the dashes then and between the dashes it's also
10.
If I take it up you will notice.
Now the space in between the dashes is increasing and the dashes are you know it is the same size as
the space of the six.
Let's put down 35.
Let's go back to Lightcap.
This is Buttercup you know it's just cut like this.
If I do it right up there will become round and of course the spacing now in between is a bit more because
you have the rounding that's eating from the space you can increase the dashes size.
Now another plus will give me gulp and that's very interesting.
So if I take the gap and increase it it will give me more gaps in between the dashed lines.
Now you know what's happening if I take the dashes to zero it will become just only the randomness will
be there.
So it's a little odd.
So if I take it to zero returned but got nothing will appear.
So if I put the two around only the roundness of each line or always dush will appear.
You can take it to 1 and you have something bigger.
And so on.
I keep it to zero.
So this is the gap and I can increase and decrease the gap.
If you look at our circle 100 percent let's make it here and come here.
If I increase the number of jobs the number of dots will decrease or increase the way you want.
That's good.
Now also this is keyframe.
We will do some animation with the offset is just turn it down.
It will offset it if you look carefully you will notice more is coming and more is going this is the
offset what's happening.
So a nice animation that you can do here is come to the stroke for example keyframe it at 0 and then
keyframe it 15 or 20 lastic 15 for now.
And then of course come in the beginning keyframe the offset at zero.
Well everyone go to the end and make the offset for example 1200 is going to be speedy but it's OK.
So you know this how it's going to open the keyframes That's very beautiful.
Now we will do that but we want to add something else.
So we're going to take all construction and drop it here and maybe we will use this logo.
So what I have to do is to create a mask.
Those are several options here and this mosque we take it down make it smaller.
You notice how I'm playing with it.
This is using the modifiers keys fine.
And after that I press control ultimate and home to bring the anchor point just in the middle of this
of call.
Now we have two layers.
We select both of them and we are going to align them center vertically and horizontally.
Now this is my shape player.
After some time of course I will have the other player coming in.
So I will put the construction here open the scale scale it a 0 and then when the circle is opening.
For example is opening up to here before I start rotating.
I would try to make this one you know just inside the circle.
Let's run our animation and see what we have achieved that looks beautiful by the way.
And you are very simply.
Another thing that I will add here is the rotation.
I play shift are to get the rotation for the circle come in the beginning here and put the rotation
at zero that's OK.
Come back here and move a bit more and put dilatation at one.
OK.
This is our small tricks but they make you an animation a bit nice.
OK.
The rotation is too much but it's OK fine let's look at it.
Now you see instead of putting a simple circle you just put the dots.
The dots are growing very nicely and coming up and this the logo is rotating.
So this is one way to use the stroke and to animate the stroke.
We animated the colors the opacity of the stroke the stroke with itself.
And we played with the round cup and both Gap and stories like this and you will have the offset to
rotate at 100 percent.
Of course you could have used the rotation.
I prefer to use the offset because it's all inclusive of the player.
So not the layer not transformation here because the transformation I might use them for something else
you know use parenting or use the null object to do something.
So it's much better to start rotating the dots or the dashes with the offset then rotate them with the
layer itself or even rotate them with the transform of the shape player.
Here we have transform elipse.
See you in the next lecture with the morning for me.
See you in the next lecture.
For more techniques about how to name it.
And then we will move on to do great and projects and great admissions.
Thank you for listening.