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Introduction to Cavalry for After Effects users

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Hi!

In this tutorial, I will give you an introduction on using Cavalry. We will cover interface, creating shapes, overview of a Duplicator tool, creating color arrays, dealing with multiple shapes, basic Noise modifier, using Number Range and finally, export of your animation.

All done without keyframes.

This video should give you a basic understanding how to work with Cavalry, how to use 1 tool to control multiple properties and more. Download project file from Gumroad here:
https://kmotiontutorials.gumroad.com/l/ttzwk

Extra details are available on my blog:

Introduction to Cavalry for After Effects users

Thanks!

00:00 Introduction
00:28 Layout overview
02:40 Composition settings
03:28 Attribute Editor – Text
06:32 Attribute Editor – Shapes
08:40 Tutorial starts here
09:23 Introduction to Duplicator
13:03 Color panel
14:04 Color Array
16:48 Noise Modifiers
19:43 Grouping and Parenting
20:48 Sub-Mesh
22:51 Number Range
25:48 Project Summary
27:28 Rendering