Here is that you go back making an animated mask. In the last set where you saw, how to make a static mask.
Here is how you make an animated one.
I have imported in a picture into my library and I am next going to use my align pallet to get. Perfectly, in my stage.
I am going to make sure that this button is depressed, it is called “A Line Distribute Stage”.
Going to click on horizontal center and vertical center and also that snap set up, very nicely encourage at my stage.
You can do that with virtually any object.
Remember that, this is called your L-mind panel and it could be found underneath design panels, and there she is.
Okay, next. We have got that as our background layer.
I am going to change the names to BG layer, oh, sorry about that, LAYER and then, next I am going to lock up layers that I do not accidentally mess it up.
I am not going to make another layer and this is going to be called my “Mask layer”, and I am going to pull this up just a little bit so that you can see the names.
So, this is my mask layer, this will be the layer that I will end up masking, okay. So, this is my mask layer.
This is the one that I will end up masking or it will become my masked layer, okay.
I am now going to go up to key frame 1 on my top layer called my mask layer, and I am going to do a very simple, animated mask.
I am going to use alt and shift to draw myself up a little circle and remember it is a vector shape.
I am going to now select that vector shape in using my align pallet. I am going to get that right in the center of my stage.
Again, using the align pallet. Next, I am going to go to, oh, let say key frame 30 or frame 30 I should say and I going to hit up six.
Notice that my picture disappear, I will take care of that in just a second and while I am on 30.
I am going to hit cue in my keyboard and then I am going to hold down on shift and alt and I am going to zoom this clear out.
I am going to just really enlarge this, so that it covers my entire stage.
Now, what I am want to do next is I want to do a shaped-twin, okay. A shaped-twin because this is a shape.
And by the way, I think that you will find that there are some limitations to types of animation that you can use with mask.
I think your going to be best if you will stick with shape twins. You can put as many shape twins as you want on this masked layer.
You can keep go like do one and then to another, to another have four or five green sets of arrows on here.
But you cannot add more layers, okay. So, it has to be all on this one layer.
Motion twins something like that, I have not had great success with nor with doing anything with a guided layer, okay.
So, making it follow a specific path on a guided layer that is probably not going to work either.
So, what I am going to do though, is I am going to come back key frame 1 on my masked layer.
I am going to my properties panel and do a shape twin.
Again, that is because it is a shape! And you will notice that, it is done correctly.
If you will see the connected arrow and now, what I need to do is to make sure that my backgrounds stays on the screen for 30.
So, 30 key frames so I am going to make sure that I add those.
Now, the last step. You want to come to this little paper icon, right here on this layer.
You are going to double click it. You are going to say, “Hey, I really do not want us to be a normal layer, I want it to be a mask layer.” and you say, “Okay”.
Then, you come to this layer. Double click on it and you say, “Hey, it is not a normal layer either?” This is going to be one that is masked, say Okay.
Notice at this one is indented below this one. Meaning that there is connection between the two.
Notice the icons on each, this one is going to be the mask and this becomes the information that is showing through you mask layer.
Okay, once a heat control in here. This may not be showing up little well on the video tutorial but it is actually pretty smooth on my computer but as you guys do it, you will that it will come out pretty nice.
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