Create a Tapered Stroke in After Effects

Create a Tapered Stroke in After Effects

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Create a Tapered Stroke in After Effects

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  1. 1 Music : [intro music]
  2. 2 Jake Bartlett : Hey, this is Jake Bartlett for school of motion. And I am going to be teaching you how to make a tapered stroke rig in after effects using expressions. Now, expressions are a very int…
  3. 3 Jake Bartlett : Really. We're going to be more clever with our expressions, so you should have no problem following along. I'll go step-by-step. And at the end, we'll have a tapered stroke rig that y…
  4. 4 Jake Bartlett : And two, it works with mask paths. So I don't have all of the controls and special operators that shape layers allow me to have. So when I approached this problem, originally, my goal…
  5. 5 Jake Bartlett : And I'm going to make a bunch of duplicates of this group. So let's say 10, and then I will bring up all of the start and end values. And I want to offset each one of these by 10%. So…
  6. 6 Jake Bartlett : All right, there we go. So if you take a look at this line, it's totally crude, but you can kind of see the concept of working. Basically if you segment this line and offset the trim …

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