Illustrator to After Effects


	Cow Forums : Adobe After Effects << PREVIOUS THREAD • VIEW ALL THREADS • PRINT • NEXT THREAD >>

Illustrator to After Effects
by Jamil Yamani on Apr 10, 2008 at 12:30:20 am

Hi all

I have some artwork that I am trying to copy and paste into AE CS3 from AI CS3. I am able to copy the paths but not the fills, ie into a Shape layer. Is there something I am doing wrong or is this not possible?

I am trying to animate the stroke and the fill of my logo artwork and of course the colour fill information is very important.

any help would be much appreciated

jamil

Respond to this post • Return to posts index

Re: Illustrator to After Effects
by Dave LaRonde on Apr 10, 2008 at 6:51:15 pm

You need to look at these:

http://cowcast.creativecow.net/podcast/afterista-part-1--218
http://cowcast.creativecow.net/podcast/afterista-part-2--219

Have fun.

Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV

Respond to this post • Return to posts index

Re: Illustrator to After Effects
by Jamil Yamani on Apr 10, 2008 at 9:35:17 pm

Hi Dave

Thanks I checked out those tutes but they when you paste paths from AI CS3 to AE CS3 the colour info dose not become pasted to the clipboard.

I played around with it myself and found that I needed to copy and paste the paths to a shape layer.

And also import the layer through the file import dialog...this part gets you the colour info.

I then had to re-align the paths to the original artwork.

It seems a bit silly not to be able to bring over the colour and the path info.

Thanks again
Jamil

The Electric Canvas
Large Format Projection Specialists
Sydney, Australia

Respond to this post • Return to posts index

Re: Illustrator to After Effects
by Dave LaRonde on Apr 11, 2008 at 5:37:47 pm

Well, why use a shape layer at all?

Can't you simply break out the components you want to animate in AE into separate layers in Illustrator, import the Illustrator document as a comp, and then get to work?

Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA

Respond to this post • Return to posts index


	<< PREVIOUS THREAD • VIEW ALL THREADS • PRINT • NEXT THREAD >>