You're about to learn skill that will take your Illustrations to big place I'm going to teach you how to get your Adobe Illustrator drawings ready for After Effects... every layer will be the size of your Artboard Illustrator this will require much more work to anchor joints and reposition items where they need to go.. There's another way to import your AI file not often-used, and that is to bring-in AI file into After Effects and convert it to in the Project panel. All the color and sizing, leading kerning should stay the same as long as your AE is the same size as Artboard Illustrator.. you will lose any effects you applied Illustrator, and if you want to re-apply that style After Effects, you'll be able to go over to Appearance panel Illustrator to find your effect and the parameters of it to add to your text now that it's After Effects.. After you've copied that, you'll want to paste it onto After Effects, then use Command + ` to see everything applied to the layer. option is to install Third-Party plugin to After Effects that can import text when it's in Illustrator. Optionally, you can create animations within the layers this works great for animation styles where strokes are used as the asset - and there is catch to this process using Hierarchy system After Effects can slow-down your workflow in some instances. To work with shapes from Illustrator layers, you want to right-click your in the Comp and select create shapes from layers. Here's part that can end up being critical to your animation it sees the layer as raster object similar to what you'd Photoshop.
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