Flash Shock Wave animation effect

In this section, we learn a simple but visually effective effect-shockwave effect. It's simple because the technology it uses is just one of the most basic applications of the mask. Let's take a look at how this effect is achieved.

Create a new file and change the background to black. Use the Word tool to choose white 48th bold words, write "New Flash times" a few words. Select these words, press F8 to convert them to graphic class, named "Text." Press Ctrl-c to copy the converted symbol instance to the clipping board. Press the F5 key in frame 10th so that the contents of these 10 frames will remain unchanged.

Create a new layer and press Ctrl+shift-v to paste the example of the text that you just copied into the original position. Now the two layers of text overlap, in order to avoid misoperation, we put the following layer of lock. Click the right mouse button on the text, select Scale to narrow it down a little. Double-click the text, select a color label in the pop-up Instance Arguments dialog box, and set the alpha value to 80, as shown in the following figure.

In frame 10th, press F6 to insert the keyframe. We also use scale to enlarge the text slightly larger than the text in the following layer, and then set the alpha value of the text in this frame to 50, as shown in the following figure. Set the Frame property to a motion gradient in frame 1th.

Let's do the masks below. First, create a new layer, and we're going to draw a circle on this layer as shown in the following figure, you can use the following method: On the layer with a different color than the background to draw a circle without the sideline, and then draw a different from the circle color of the smaller circle, also without the sideline. Drag the small circle to the center of the big Circle, and then select the arrow tool in the two circle outside the point, and then point the middle of the small circle, press DELETE key Delete. Then select the ring and press F8 to convert it to a symbol.

Now we'll put the circle in the middle of the text and narrow it down to the size shown in the image below, or flatten the circle. This will be the starting position of the shock wave.

In frame 10th, press F6 to create a new keyframe, enlarge the circle to the size shown in the following image, and let the ring completely cover all the text. Then set the Frame property to the motion gradient in frame 1th. Press the right mouse button on this layer and select Mask in the pop-up menu to turn this layer into a mask layer.

The Timeline window is set as shown in the following illustration:

In this way, all the work is done. Take a look at the effect. In the course of doing, we may encounter the problem of less ideal, which requires us to adjust the size of the key frame on the mask layer, the alpha value and the size of the ring on the mask layer, shape, etc., to obtain a more ideal impact sense. You can also try to change the final output by setting the easing value to change the speed of the ring and text movement in the mask layer and the 1th frame properties of the masked layer.