Animate easily your vector illustrations with After Effects CS6 sur After Effects

thanks bro !

Very good tutorial. Really wishing the keys were in English, but I think I was able to follow along most of this.

You made an almost exact replica of the new iPod nano before it was released :P

Hi this seems amazing! i can't wait to upgrade,(i need to find the money hehe), anyway, since I don't have a CS6, I'm on CS5, i was wondering if is there any possibility to finding a similar "automatization" action for this kind of effects? without doing a bounch of masks and a bounch of layers, I would really appreciate it. (any code too would be great)

best!!

Thank you so much! I really enjoyed your tutorial. Keep up the good efforts =P

Does anybody else get the message : After effects error:TDL: outline contains triangles that are too small to be rendered. Check for very thin triangles in original artwork. (88::3 ).... Only happens when i try to make the shape layers 3D....

Mattrunks January 25 2013, 12h11

Hello, it's an OpenGL bug, an other user had the same error message in another tutorial, isoscene. I made a little video to solve it, but in french : https://mattrunks-support.viewscreencasts.com/991080ce80950f0bd7f09d21462e418a Basically, just try to switch to "Fast draft" to "Adaptative resolution" in the viewport settings. It should help !

Thanks for the fast response. That has solved it.

hello first thanks for this great tutorial, i learned a lot again.
but i have a question, when i import an illustrator file as composition, is there a way to reload it as it's possible when importing footage there is the option to reload footage.
sometimes clients ask to alter the vector files in illustrator, change colour or change graphics etc..

Sorry but i can't watch this tutorial. A message appear on the black frame: "Could not load plugins: File not found". Can anyone help me?

i created something in Illustrator and then imported to After effect but its not changing it into composition now what i can do to solve it? Btw Awesome Tutorial

Thank you so much. You're a legend!

When I convert my AI outlines to shape, it turns grayscale. Did I do something wrong?

Mattrunks March 29 2013, 22h32

Your shapes need to be really simples : no gradients, no fx. Just plain colours and simple outlines (if any). It's a new function, so I hope that the support of any type of illustrations will be better in a next update.

Excellent tutorial. Thank you so much.

Great tutorial. Thanks!

Thank you very much !

Hi!
First of all thank you very much for this tutorial, it's really easy to follow and the final result is just great!

i do have a little problem, though: when creating the 'shapes from vector layer' on after effects, the outlines of my shapes don't separate from it but they stay in the stame group.
I think i'm doing something wrong on illustrator because when i use your 'phone' shape everything works out perfect.
Can you help me?

thanks anyway!

Why does yours animate the stroke of a shape as a separate path? When I animate something I've made in illustrator, the path and stroke animate together.

To get mine to animate the way yours does in illustrator I have to make the outline a separate path, but from looking at your downloadable files I see that you didn't.

Thanks, nice tutorial.

Hi, great tutorial thanks! Just wanted to use this to animate our Illustrator logo into AE. Unfortunately the gradients as you mentioned are not supported. Is there a workaround for this issue? It would be super cool,

thanks,

Erik

thank you very helpful for me

love it, very useful, but i have to practise many times

Best tutorial ive ever seen probably! This is such a go-to technique! thanks so much! it would have been 10/10 if your adobe suit was in english! :)

Awesome! Thanks so much!

Amazing!

wonderful tutorial. since i have low internet download limit i cant view online every time i want, how can i download your tutorials to my pc?

Thanks!

Great Tutorial ^^
Thanks!

Nice tutorial thanks man!

I can't get this video to play? I click "Watch the Tutorial" and then nothing happens? Any advice?

Is there a way to change your project file into english?

Is there another way to import artwork from CS5 to Ae? Sorry, I really, really need it please.

Thank you!

When I apply Trim Paths, some undesirable side-effects appear – large diagonal shapes, like searchlight beams. Maybe it's related to the layers somehow?

Thanks so much for a great tutorial!

Goodwin December 05 2013, 22h46

Ha! I figured it out – if blending modes are added in Illustrator (like "Multiply"), the side-effects appear. Similar to the transparency problem you mention in the tutorial. Just add the blending modes in AE instead. Thanks again!

Cool... tried it in different way and it really gives great output. Thanks

Thanks ...

this is beautiful
very simple but yet it looks awesome!
thanks

I'm up to the wiggle transform part and when i drag the position bar it just moves the entire object to that position instead of moving all the shapes around like in the video. Any idea how to fix this?

Yayita June 10 2014, 15h00

Hey, I found the issue... you have to modify the values of "transform tool" but inside the wiggle transform effect, do not use the general transform tool. Open "wiggle transform" and you will see its own "transform tool" on the bottom.

Woohoo! Loved this tutorial, really explains the new functions for Ai to Ae! Thank you!

Very helpful. Thanks!

In Illustrator you don't need to paint the checkerboard for the background to white and white, if you click command shift D it will cancel the transparent background and go back to the traditional white (or whatever color you set for your background, as a simulated paper). Just thought it was worth mentioning it.

Great tutorial, by the way.

This is a great tutorial, motion graphics people should MUST watch this..

By far, the best tutorial I came across. Thank you very much sir.

I can't animate my camera. when i zoom in with the track z camera tool the position of my camera won't change... Basically I can't create the zoom effect at the very end

Wow I spent like a year in trying to find again this great tutorial :) I appreciate the upload, and is well explained thanks :D

When it comes to the time when I put in the Game file in the final composition, it lags. Not just that time but also when I was making the animations on the Game file too.

Great tutorial. Love it!

An Illustrator tip for you: You don’t have to change the colours of your transparency grid to make the document white. Simply hide the transparency grid (Command-Shift-D, or under the view menu) and you’ll have your preferred white background. This makes it easy to quickly toggle the transparency on and off. So that you can still which parts of your document are properly transparent if you happen to use white in your compositions.

i have got CC is that problem ?!

how could I download the tutorial please ?!

Could anyone please help me with a problem I am experiencing? Even though, I followed the tutorial and used the ai files provided, when I do the 'create shapes from vector layer' the outlines of the vector graphic do not seem to separate as in the video and when try to animate the phone for example with the 'trim shapes' it animates together and the phone does not 'appear' and 'disappear as in the video. I can still see the different groups under the phone composition …so I don't understand what the problem is. Is it because it was not saved correctly in Illustrator? Has anyone had similar problems…and perhaps figured out how to fix it? I'd greatly appreciate any help!

Thank you so much. Absolutly loved the tutorial and learned a lot from it. Keep up the awesome work. Cheers

Thanks very much, it's been about 4 years now since the tutorial first published and it's still very useful.

Great tutorial. Thank you so much.

Thanks! Still useful

I'm having the same problem as Barbora. The issue may be in the Illustrator file but I still don't understand why it happens for some people and not for others.

Arpad April 14 2017, 20h50

Found a solution — I quit out of AE and started over and it worked this time. Still don't know what the problem was though!

Hello,
thank you for this tutorial could you put the link of the video standard on the answer.
Thank you in advance , and going your website is fabulous....
Vandenberg

thanks for this great tutorial