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Animate Shape Layer Arms & Legs

CC2222 MOTION GRAPHICS DESIGN
Task: Animate Shape Layer Arms & Legs
In this task, we were to learn on how to animate a shape layer. We are to customize our own character and background scene including the title of this tutorial as well as our name.
The video above is the tutorial that I followed to create my motion graphics.
Most of the process is similar to the tutorial with a few adjustments.
For the texts, I simply used the Text tool on the top menu and adjustments were made as seen in the figure above.
The exercise that I made was a bit different than the tutorial given where my character would squat and jump. 

Firstly, shapes were mostly made by using the Pen tool and Shape tool. The Path of different layers were then changed as seen above. 'Convert Vertex Tool' was used to be able to animate the arm and leg layers. 

To make the character jump, Position was simply adjusted.

In order to duplicate the arm and leg, Repeater was added as shown in the figure below.
By adding the Repeater, we will be able to duplicate another arm and leg while having the ability to change any elements for both at the same time. 2 copies were added and the Scale was changed from 100 to -100 to make the leg and hand opposite of each other.

The final step was to Parent the whole layer with each other in order to make the movement in sync without any separations in the layers. For example, the arms and legs were parented into the Torso layer.

For the music, simply Import the mp3 file into the Project area and dragging the file into the Layer work area.

The project was then Exported into MP4.
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Animate Shape Layer Arms & Legs
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