In this first lecture we gonna start step by step.
We are going to open a logo that I file and look at it then go to aftereffects and important say exactly
how things happen.
We are not going to manipulate the file in is it.
So please I hope you download the assets from the previous lecture and now it's time to open the logo.
Click on Open in Illustrator.
I hope you have launched it OK and you have the first one is a logo.
So we just open it in Illustrator.
Now if you look at this file here it's quite nice.
We want to animate the logo we want to change the text by something significant not here in aftereffects.
The only thing you need to have is layers.
If you don't have layers here you can come to Windows I think.
And you make sure that layers is checked or use the f7 shortcut.
Here you are this file is done by a graphic designer and not by me at all.
It has a layer one and inside this that you have two groups.
OK guys so the most we are going to do here is to click right click we are not going to draw anything.
So you have layer one inside layer one there is a group inside this group that is the first text that
is logo text.
If you notice if you select from here that is your tag line and you have the logo text also here you
are and of course you have another group that has all the designs you have path on top and bottom.
You have the Pye's here that all path over it.
So the name of our file is a logo not a.
Let's go now to after effects and bring in this fight.
I was switched to aftereffects and here to import the file you all know you're right click and say import
and you go to file.
Of course I want to import logo.
Notice that it's still open in a but not locked.
So it's really pretty cool to work on the file.
I then import the after effects go back work and import again and stories like this.
The only thing I would like you to notice here that you have import us and you have footage composition
retained laicized and only a comp.
Now in our case here I wanted to import as a composition retain layer size OK.
In fact that's the option that I recommend that you always use.
Forget about the other options for now and you click Import here you are.
Not what happened here.
A logo layered a folder has been created if you create that you will have only one single vector file
here.
That is the logo dot.
And also a composition has been created.
If I doubleclick on the camp to open it I have a single layer here.
If you notice that is a logo.
But now why is that.
Why do we have a single layer.
Remember in Illustrator we had one single layer.
Let's go back to illustrator and you know this I had one single layer containing everything and that's
exactly what happened in after effects it has imported a single layer in your composition become an
innate desire if you like you can scale it up and down stories like this and it's just one block.
You cannot change the text or song but there is a way now to turn everything into shape players to animate
them.
It's crazy by the way you click on your letter.
You right click and you go create shapes from Vector layer.
So it's already ready for you.
I would click on not just what happened.
The wording does appear the text has disappeared why it was text plain text in Illustrator so in after
effects it cannot be rendered into shapes.
Of course if you look at the logo outline here and we turn it down and tore down the content you have
group one group to group three four five and six units what's happening here.
So every group in Illustrator if you look at the layer here you will find you have the groups and every
group has been turned into a group in after effects guys.
Now this is pretty practical.
You can start animating the groups if you open for example Group 1 which is the lower curve.
Over here you have the path you are and you have it's fill.
You can come and change its color.
For example let's zoom in and the fill here you can come and change the color to right for example whatever
you would like.
So now you are ready to start animating But of course you lost that text.
This is one way to deal with vector files.
So now we had one layer in Illustrator.
We brought it over here and then we converted to create shapes from Vector labs and inside the shape
player a single chair player.
We have now lots of groups or many groups.
This is a file that has been very well organized and you can start animating each group.
And of course if we'd like to copy paste you can create several layers in the next lecture.
I would was a better method of organizing the data file.
So it's imported in several layers and ready to be an image.
See you then.