Follow Ai path in AE for 2d side view off-road animation

[Emrecan51403863]

Hello everyone:

i draw an off-road vehicle and hills with separete illustrator file and it's take much time to animate vehicle's x-y positions and rotation.

You know AE's path animations feature but i want to animate vehicle along to hills path.can AE read illustrator's path?

[Roei Tzoref]

you probably mean you want to use the path as position keyframes. you can do that:

copy the path property and paste on to position. to make the rotation orient along path use the orient along path feature: layer->transform->auto orient

[Emrecan51403863]

No i know how i use path as position keyframes and along path feature for rotation.i am just asking how can i use adobe illustrator path in After effects?

[Rick Gerard · Accepted solution]

Copy the path in Illustrator. Select a layer in AE. Choose the pen tool and click anywhere and paste, press Alt/Option + m to set a mask keyframe, copy, select any position property and set a keyframe by pressing Alt/Optio + p, then paste.

Your Illustrator path turned into a mask path then into a position path. AE Basic skills everyone should have.

[Roei Tzoref]

Your Illustrator path turned into a mask path then into a position path. AE Basic skills everyone should have.

actually: Your Illustrator path turned into a mask path then into a position path.

[Rick Gerard]

I always create a position path first to make sure it's in the right place.

[Roei Tzoref]

you can, but it's unnecessary for the technical procedure that's what I'm saying.

[Roei Tzoref]

copying illustrator paths (or Ps paths) is very simple: copy (Ctrl+C) the path from illustrator, paste (Ctrl+V) in Ae. if you want to paste it on position you can do it without creating a mask first. more information here: https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/creating-shapes-masks.html#copy_a_path_from_illustrator_...