if you thought we were done with shape layers, well you're in for a surprise because there's a lot more that we can do with shape layers and that's under this add button, they're kind of these shape effects like I like to call them. So I've created this circle and I want you to do that right now. So go ahead and pause the video, do it and then I'll tell you how to do it. If you forget to pause the video created. Okay, let's go. So hopefully you created it. I just added this background and then with the shape layer, I created this circle using the shift click to create the perfect circle. And then I turned off the Phil and I have the stroke set. I can set at 25 awesome. So in our contents we have our lips which we've seen before. But we also have this add button. If we click that we see a bunch of different options, we have things that we've seen before, like fill and stroke. But there's also these ones down here. If I click wiggle past, looks what look what happens, it adds this animat...

ed sort of wiggle effect and we can go in here and make it even more wiggly by changing the size, we can change the details. So there's a lot more of them. We can change the points to that smooth instead of that sort of sharp edges and we can play through it. So you get this sort of organic wiggle to this shape layer and let me delete that will go past another one is this zigzag which is similar but it's not animated. So with the zig zag, I can go in here, we can create some zigzags. We can also animate these things. So if we want to sort of pow sort of look, can create more ridges, create sort of a gear type thing. That's pretty cool too. Now this doesn't change with time, it's not animated but it's just for style one that I love that I'm going to use a lot in this course and for a lot of my projects is trim paths, so go ahead and click add trim paths. Now, nothing happens when you do that. But what you'll notice is that when you drop down trim paths, you have the start and end percentage, click the end percentage and just drag and you can see that we have this circle growing on with their percentage. This is how you can come up with some really intricate animations. So say we animate this the end from zero Then to 1/2 to 100. Now we have this circle being drawn on and this will happen for any type of stroke or any shape that you create with the pen tool using the stroke. If it had a Phil let's just turn on a fill, you'll see what happens. I typically don't do this because it looks kind of funny, but maybe for one of your animations that you might, I want to use that but I typically turn the Phil off when I'm using trim paths, I'm going to easy ease these key frames, selecting them right clicking key frame assistant. Easy ease. So we get more of a little pop. Let's even go into our graph editor. Make sure we're on the speed graph. Select these key frames and drag them in to create more of that little pop action. Cool. That's pretty cool. And we can add some motion blur. Make it a little bit more organic. That's pretty cool. Okay, so that's cool. But let's make this really intricate, really fast. There's another thing in the add button called a group and that allows us to group multiple shapes or multiple effects into sort of a folder. So if I take the ellipse and drag into the group and I also take the trim paths into the group. Now those two things are combined and we can actually copy and paste this group right within this shape layer. So I can duplicate it by pressing command D. Or control C. Control V. To copy and paste on a pc. Let's open up group two and now let's go into our ellipse in group two. Under the transform properties for the ellipse and scale it down. Okay, so now we're scaling it down. We have two circles. Let's also play with the stroke of this one. So let's drop down the stroke. Let's make it even skinnier. So now if we play this, you can see that it's starting to get a little bit more interesting. Okay that's cool. Let's duplicate this group to again and then let's go into our lips one and actually let's make this a little bit bigger so into the transform ellipse one, make it a little bit bigger like so this looks kind of cool but let's reverse this animation. So let's delete these key frames. Now let's set the start to 100. So now we're going to animate the end from 100-0. So at this second point we're going to set a key frame for the end at 0%. Now let's go to zero frames and set this to 100%. So now it's animating on the opposite way like so group. So let's play through this pretty darn cool. And of course you can keep going keep animating, keep duplicating and that's how you get more intricate effects like this. We're going to continue on but we'll also be covering some of these other effects in future lessons and real world projects. Feel free to play around with them and just start creating your own motion graphics using things like the trim paths, animations

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Shape Effects - Trim Path Animations, Wiggle, and Zig Zag

Shape Effects - Trim Path Animations, Wiggle, and Zig Zag

Lesson Info

21. Shape Effects - Trim Path Animations, Wiggle, and Zig Zag

Lessons

Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates

Understand the After Effects Workspace

Starting a New Composition

CC 2018 Update - Starting a New Composition from Footage

Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline

Using the Basic After Effects Tools

Create a Perfect Circle, Alignment, and Shape Colors

Working in the Timeline

Layer Properties

Quiz: After Effects Basics

Animating in After Effects

Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations

Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral

Using the Graph Editor

Challenge - Bouncing Ball

Solution - Bouncing Ball

Quiz: Animating with Keyframes

Working with Solid Layers and the Ken Burns Effects

Working with Shape Layers, Strokes, and Paths

Adding Layer Styles like Drop Shadow, Bevel, and Gradients

Shape Effects - Trim Path Animations, Wiggle, and Zig Zag

Quiz: Shapes and Solid Layers

Track Matte Animations - Make Layers Appear and Disappear

Using Pre-Compositions to Group Layers

Easily Reverse Complicated Animations

Playing with Time

Blend Modes

Stabilize Shaky Footage

CC 2018 Update - Previewing and Favoriting Fonts

CC 2019 Update - Responsive Design Time

CC 2019 Content Aware Fill

CC 2019 Create Motion Graphic Templates

Quiz: Important After Effects Skills

Intro to Motion Graphics Projects

Clean Lower Third

Logo Reveal Animation Bumper

Colorful Transition

Text with Mask Path Animation

Text Bubble Animation

Weather App 1

Weather App 2

Weather App 3

Quiz: Motion Graphics Projects

Flat Animation Challenge

Phil Designs his Flat Animation Scene

Animating Fireworks with the Repeater Effect

Removing Green Screen Background

Adding a Background that Matches the Foreground

Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool

Adding Movement with the Ripple Effect

Quiz: Flat Animation Challenge

Intro to 3D

Swinging 3D Text Animation

Build Out Your 3D Composition

Animating Our 3D Scene

Create Stars in After Effects

Quiz: Green Screen (Chromakeying)

Using the Rotoscope Tool

Cleaning Up Your Edges

Finishing Our Rotobrush Animation

Quiz: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool

Easy Screen Replacement with Masks

Replacing a Screen Version 2

Screen Replacement with Mocha

CC 2019 Update - Native Mocha AE Plugin

Quiz: Rotoscoping

Using the Puppet Pin Tool

Animating Your Puppet Pins

Animated Blinking Eyes

Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds

CC 2018 Update - Advanced Puppet Pin Tool

Quiz: Screen Replacements

Applying Text Animation Presets

Create a Page Turn Effect with CC Page Turn