SHAPE LAYER ACCENTS in After Effects | Adobe Tutorial

Create your own custom shape layer accents that can be used in any number of motion graphic videos. This will be the first tutorial in a training series where I will show you how to create your own custom library of shape layer accents including bursts, animated shapes, path animations, and much more. Instead of buying animated shape packs, create your own and learn some useful skills along the way. Before you know it, you’ll be a shape layer rockstar!
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Expression used in this tutorial:
Direction = effect("Direction 1")("Checkbox")
if(Direction == 1) {100} else{0}
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Tutorial Table of Contents
00:00 - What you’ll learn!
00:19 - Let’s create our Shape Layer
01:19 - Add in some Expression Controls
03:12 - Create the Direction Expression
04:30 - Stack and Link our Shapes
06:40 - Apply the Direction Expression
08:20 - Create the Animation Preset
09:13 - Summary
10:22 - Envato Elements promo
11:49 - Outro
Thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time!

[@marykirmo]

THANK YOU! People do sell packs for things like this and that can be a great resource. It I often end up making my own accents per client and then just making them a thousand times. About six months ago I searched and searched how to make my own presets and there was nothing useful. I am SO GLAD you did this. I’ll be spending a weekend day making presets. Finally!! Thank you. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@7MinuteAETutorials]

Thanks for watching! I'm so glad this helped you out.

[@DEADLINETV]

Very cool and very well explained! Thanks for learning us to fish instead of selling us the fish!

[@O2-studios]

Would LOVE to see more of this! Thank you!

[@ROGERS_A]

Let's see more of these. Thanks.

[@r0mera]

Dude, just keep teaching us, please. Thank you so much for really teaching. Soon I will be another supporter.

[@7MinuteAETutorials]

Thanks so much for the comment. It's comments like this that keep me going :)

[@praveenatole6779]

Yes We Love to See More This Kind Of Tutorials & Thank You ! Very Much For Your Tutorials

[@jennyhill7791]

OMG! Hold up! You just changed my world! I work for a company with a very defined brand style, and I animate a lot of videos using our large icon set. I have all the icons in separate Ai files that I pull in through Animation Composer. Then if I want to fiddle with it, I convert the icon to a shape layer and tinker.
Also, since different series of videos have either blue or white backgrounds, I have two icons in colors for each background. Due to my workload, I don't always do as much as I could in terms of animating the individual icons.
I watched this video earlier this week, and yesterday I had an epiphany... I can convert each icon to a shape layer with groups! Once I had an icon set up, I started pulling in color controls for each element. Then I realized I only needed three color controls main, accent, and background. I linked each group to the appropriate controls, and now I can load one icon and quickly switch to the colors I need!
Some icons are the same with minor variations, so for those I added groups for all variations in one shape layer and used the opacity on/off idea you shared.
Finally, I'm giving each icon a bit of animation, so that each time I pull one in, they already have a bit of flair! Thank you so much for helping me take things to the next level while saving scads of time!

[@saneakombas3136]

Learned a lot from this tutorial, thank you very much

[@Musago-Music-Theory]

Really good Jeff!

[@SkyOrtizCreative]

Yesssss! Thank you so much for making these tutorials on shape accents. I’m new to AE so this is super useful and I would love to see more of these videos.

[@7MinuteAETutorials]

More are on the way! The next one will be up on Thursday. Thanks for watching!

[@SajewichActor]

This is great! Simple and to the point. Thank you

[@7MinuteAETutorials]

Glad you like it! I have another one coming out on Thursday. I think building up these accents is a great way to learn how to use shape layers..

[@juancho5636]

This is amazing. Thank you.

[@andrewoward]

Nice! thanks for this.

[@creativefreelancer]

Another fantastic tutorial, thank you for sharing your knowledge

[@7MinuteAETutorials]

Muchas gracias. I appreciate the comment.

[@digiworld1989]

Yes. Thank you

[@lifehousenetwork]

Love it! More please

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Thanks for watching!

[@ibrahemodel7084]

Great

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Спасибо за прекрасный урок!