How to design the heart-shaped trajectory flight animation of aircraft

I believe some friends don't know much about the simple operation of AE in making airplane heart-shaped path flight animation, but today Bian Xiao brought the graphic method of AE in making airplane heart-shaped path flight animation. Friends in need can study with Bian Xiao.

Graphic method of making heart-shaped trajectory flight animation of aircraft by AE

CTRL+N creates a new composition, names it romantic little dynamic effect, and sets corresponding properties. You can set it here according to your own preferences and actual situation. CTRL+Y creates a new entity layer to be used as the next path carrier to be drawn. Select the solid layer, open the pen tool and draw the path you want.

CTRL+I imports the prepared material. Here, I found a paper plane on the Internet this time as the material, mainly to learn the production methods and ideas, the specific material, you can download it online.

Open the drop-down property of the physical layer of the path carrier, select the mask shape, CTRL+C copy the path, select the material layer of the paper plane, press the shortcut key P to open the location property, and CTRL+V paste the path. At this point, the path just drawn is copied to the material layer of the paper plane. In other words, the paper plane will move according to the path we draw, and the key frames will be copied.

Next, make some minor adjustments. You can adjust the speed by adjusting the position of key frames. Come on, I'll teach you a trick. Select all the key frames, hold down the ALT key, and drag out the last key frame, so as to achieve the effect of equally extending or equally shortening the key frames.

Select the solid layer of the path carrier, and add the brush stroke effect, effect-generation-brush stroke. Adjust the corresponding properties. Here, we can animate the k frame through the stroke ending attribute, ending k key frames in the 0 th frame and ending 100 in the last frame. At this time, we can press the space bar to preview the effect and fine-tune it through the actual effect.

It can be observed in the preview that the direction of the aircraft nose is always one direction, and the direction has not changed along the path. At this time, we need to give the aircraft material an automatic orientation effect along the path, so that it can change the direction of the aircraft accordingly according to the path.

Press the space bar and you will see the final effect. The attached drawings are screenshots of the beginning, middle and end effects.

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