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hello guys soft Tony here welcome back
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to this brand new After Effects tutorial
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and in this one we will be creating this
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creative shape background here in After
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Effects this technique is really easy to
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create just follow my steps so without
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wasting any more time let's jump into
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after effects and get
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started
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all right we're here in After Effects
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and first like always let's create a new
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composition controll or command plus and
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this is going to be final 9020 by 1080
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60 frames per seconds and duration 10
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seconds long now hit okay and it's time
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to create background right click to
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create a new solid layer this is going
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to be Background 90/20 by 1080 also hit
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okay and then go here in the fact and
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pres it and if you can find them just go
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window and you will find the effects and
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preset here now type fil effect drag and
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drop onto the background or double click
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and let's change color to pure black
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color hit okay now let's create another
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solid layer go right click to create new
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solid layer this is going to be
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particles like so hit okay and then go
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in the effects and PR it find again F
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effect drag and drop onto the particles
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change color to pure white color hit
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okay then go here again find star burst
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effect drag and drop also here on the
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particles and here for the scatter let's
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type 350 for the speed I will type
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0.70 something like this of course you
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can play around with your options and
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third effect is going to be glow effect
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Dr and drop onto the particles and here
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for the glow threshold let's try maybe
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30% glow radius maybe around 280 or 300
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it's up to you and for the glow
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intensity maybe lower down to
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0.8 something like this
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and now when we hit zero we have cool
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particles in our final composition okay
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now let's also draw shape here in the
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composition go here on this little icon
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or hit Q for a few times on your
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keyboard or go left Mouse click to find
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the polygon tool but first I will turn
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on the titles and action save and from
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the center you can hold control and
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shift on your keyboard to draw a perfect
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shape like so you can also hold space
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while you're holding control and shift
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to move it up or down here in the scene
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Now open up this poar option poar pad
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and in every moment you can change here
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maybe 4.3 and you can get here triangle
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I will leave it now to five like so and
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now let's animate our shape layer hit
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here again and then go double click on
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this Pan behind tool to Center The
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Anchor Point hit s for scaling and also
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hold shift and R for rotation go here to
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maybe zero frames and then hit zero for
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scale set up the first key frame also
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for the rotation and scale and then go
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to around 4 seconds or so for the scale
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let's type here 500 and for the rotation
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let's do around 75 and now when we hit
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zero we have this uh basic animation of
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our shape okay now it's time to
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precompose the shape layer go right
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click precompose this is going to be
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shape make sure to move all attributes
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into the new composition and then hit
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okay and now it's time to make a few
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further adjustments let's add more
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effects but before that let's add
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another effect here in the shape
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composition here on the shape layer 01
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hit F3 and then go here in effects and
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pres it find Echo effect and then just
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drag and drop onto the shape player one
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and here let's also make a few
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adjustments for the echo time type here
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minus
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0.600 okay for the number of echo type
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here 100 and and for the Decay type here
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instead of 1 Two And now when we hit
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zero we have this cool shape movement of
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our polygons okay now let's go here
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again in the final composition go in the
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effects and pres it find here ramp
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effect okay Dragon drop onto the shape
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and here for the start of the ramp let's
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go upper left corner end of the ramp go
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lower right corner and for the first
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color let's change this to pure white
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color for the second color let's go and
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find this bright bright blue color
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something like this and then hit okay
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now let's also add glow effect again hit
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glow here and then drag and drop onto
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the shape composition for the glow
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threshold instead of 60 type here 90 for
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the glow radius instead of 10 type here
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40 and for the glow intensity instead of
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one type here
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0.5 okay now let's duplicate this shape
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composition hit control+ D or go edit
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and then duplicate and for the second
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one I will rename this one shape Shadow
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something like this okay now let's
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delete this gradient ramp here in the
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shape Shadow composition Okay add fill
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effect okay drag and drop here above
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glow effect let's find here maybe also
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bright blue color and then hit okay now
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let's add another effect find here CC
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radial fast blur drag and drop above our
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glow effect and also for the amount
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let's type here 80 and for the center go
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somewhere like here okay this is looking
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cool and then here in the final
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composition hit t for shape Shadow
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instead of 100% type maybe
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7% okay and for the next step let's add
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here adjustment layer go right click
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here in the final composition find
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adjustment layer this is going to be
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lights okay go in facts and preset again
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find light bra SP drag and drop onto the
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adjustment layer and here let's also
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make a few adjustments for the first
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step let's uncheck this color from
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source for the intensity you can play
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around here with the options I will do
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55 and for the radius type 170 and varp
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softness to around 200 now let's uh
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change color maybe to this type of blue
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color you can also play around here with
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the colors hit okay and for the center
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go somewhere like here now hit control+
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D here on our light race to create
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second effect and then for the center
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let's go somewhere around here you can
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play around of course with the options
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and you can reposition those points here
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in the scene Also let's add our third
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effect this is going to be lens flare
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Dragon drop also on the lights
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adjustment layer and for the flare
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Center go upper right corner somewhere
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like here and L type instead of First
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Option change 105 mm Prime and blend
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with original type around 70% you can
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also here play around to maybe 50
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whatever fits to you for the final step
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let's add another adjustment layer go
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right click to create a new adjustment
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layer this is going to be BL I will add
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here camera lens BL but I recommend you
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to use goshan blur if you don't have
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enough strong PC to support the effect I
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will add camera lens blue okay drag and
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drop onto the adjustment layer and for
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the blue radius let's type here 10
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instead of five now go here again to
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find the ellipse tool here in the tools
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options and then just double click while
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this adjustment layer here is selected
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just make sure to select this adjustment
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layer double click and then hit M for
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mask you can see it over here and then
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just hit here inverted option you can
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also play around here with the mask
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double click move it on the left or on
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the right side according your needs and
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then also what you can do for the mask
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feather instead of zero let's type here
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maybe
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250 and now in our finals we have this
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Edge blue and this is looking awesome
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hit zero and our scene is looking really
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cool and awesome for the final step
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let's precompose everything hit control+
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a or select everything go right click
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pre post this is going to be seen of
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course you can type here your own name
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hit okay hit s for scaling just to
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prevent those Edge bendings and then hit
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here
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101% hit zero on your keyboard and our
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background is looking really cool and
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really awesome as I mentioned earlier in
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every moment you can go here in the
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shape option open up this content option
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poly star poly star pad and if you want
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to see I don't know um triangles hit
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three and then go here in the finals and
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as you can see now you can see the
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triangles background here in the finals
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I will do control+ set and then hit zero
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again and this is looking awesome all
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right guys that was everything for
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today's tutorial like always I hope you
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learn something new if you haven't
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subscribed to my Channel please hit that
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subscribe button also leave me a comment
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Down Below in the comment section hit
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that like button take a look on my
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channel for more great tutorials and
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until next time stay creative and
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bye-bye