In this second lesson we'll finish our series on moving files between Illustrator and After Effects. Download Project File: http://bit.ly/2tmkmtL Check Out Part 1: http://bit.ly/2tunROE ---------------------------------------------------------- Partial, Auto-Generated Transcript Below 👇 Amy Sundin (00:08): Hey guys, this is Amy from school of motion with part two of our bringing your illustrator files and after effects series. This is the final part in the series, and we're going to go over a bunch of other things that you can encounter when you're bringing those illustrator files into aftereffects that we just didn't have time to get to. In part one, don't forget to sign up to be a VIP member at the bottom of this page. We're actually going to give you all the project files that we use this time in this lesson. Thanks for watching. Let's get started. All right, guys, let's get started on part two of bringing your illustrator files into after effects. So you might notice that our original files up right now, and this is not the file we'll be working with. This is actually because we got a little bit of feedback from one of the animation bootcamp students, Renee. Amy Sundin (00:55): He pointed out this wonderful feature that I did not notice before in after facts when you go to the save as dialogue. So we save as we can actually save each art board to a separate file. Hooray. So this will cut down on some time you just hit okay there and I'll actually show you what it did. So what it did was it re-saved our original scene in this folder that I named art boards. You're probably going to want to make a new folder for that reason. So you don't confuse yourself. And then actually, if we open up these other files, you will see, seem to is now isolated, seeing one only thing there and art board, three only thing. They're so perfect. Obviously you might want to rename these to something that makes more sense to you, but that cuts down on just all that time having to hit file save as, and also on you accidentally screwing up and overriding a file. Amy Sundin (02:00): So really cool. Thank you, Renee. Awesome. Tip. All right. Now this is the file that we're actually going to be working with. So this one right here is the one that would be handed off to you that you're going to have to prep for after effects to be animated. This is the intermediate file of what we're going to be setting up today to get this stuff to function right in after effects. Now it looks a little overkill, but it's actually not for what we're going to be doing with it. Lots of layers. And this is our actual final result in after effects. So I'm going to go through and Ram preview this for you guys. Amy Sundin (02:53): Now, as you can see here, while it's Ram previewing, we have all kinds of little moving parts pieces going on. We have some trim path effects going on on this type here on the a and the, oh, we've got these, a wavy lines going on in the background that are actually kind of clipping this grainy stuff as a mat. We've also got all of these circles moving independently, all animated. We've got these dash lines shooting out from the center point. And if you look down here, there's a little bit of like a flickering kind of effect going on on these lighter areas here. And there's actually some, there's some light paths going across. So there's a bunch of different stuff that needs to be addressed in this file. Amy Sundin (03:47): All right. And this is what it kind of looks like when we're done. So you'll see, we have a mix of things that need to be converted into shape layers, bunch of pre comps, and then stuff that actually we are going to leave alone as an illustrator layer. So let's jump back into illustrator and start prepping this file. All right. So here's our original file. Now, the first thing is we don't need all this color palette stuff. That's just stopped from the designer that they left over. Same thing with this mask. This is just used so that they can see with that, like what the final product is going to look like. Cut. Amy Sundin (04:33): So that can go away now. So this is what we are left with here. So we have this upper tone, that's kind of tinting project. And also you're going to want to have your appearance and your transparency pallets up and ready when you're looking through a file with these kinds of raster effects, because this is where you're going to see what is going on with those. So if we hit this little target circle here, you're going to see this has an opacity of 15% with a soft light and a grain effect on it. Now that's actually very important because if we need to take this into after effects, I will actually show you what's going to happen. We're going to import that original file. We don't, well, we didn't save it, but that's okay. We'll just pick any one of these