 Hello everybody welcome back to another After Effects tutorial in this one I'm gonna show you how to create repeating and to some degree spinning shapes just like this This is obviously a sphere or a circle and it looks like that old hip old school hypnosis effect You'll see here, and it just keeps repeating over and over and over I'll show you a few other things while I got you here, and then we'll take a look at how to do it Here's an example of triangles if we start at the beginning We've got this triangle shape kind of coming out and it's got some effects applied to it But it looks pretty cool, right? And if we had a few more sides, we'd have something like this right cool stuff Let me show you how to do this very simple. I'm gonna go ahead and delete this and start from scratch Okay, so if we have nothing we would go file new composition. Let's just go to yeah Let's just start a new project. All right right from the beginning the hell with it I'm not gonna save this good. Here's the beginning new composition 1920 by 1080 background color black is fine now. We're gonna go to layer new fill and Where is it now? Let's go in layer new solid. I'm thinking Photoshop, uh and we're gonna make this one Let's go with some sort of I don't know. Let's go with a yellowish color something like that. Okay good click on that Click on okay fair enough now in your effects and presets You want to go over here wherever the effects and presets is set for you if you don't see it Just go to window make sure there's a check mark beside it type in radio and you'll see something called radio waves That's right. This is a wild effect drag and drop that on to the timeline and now look what happens We've gone ahead and it's actually made the blackout back, but that doesn't matter We've got this now basic blue Cool-looking effect applied to it. All right And if you don't want to do that if you wanted it to apply to this yellow Just go ahead and create a duplicate. So I'll just go edit Duplicate the layer and then let's try that and see what happens. There we go now when I hit Spacebar, we've got this cool blue-looking Circular pattern pop and own this is a repeating shape and it looks pretty good, but we can make some serious changes to it one Let's go ahead and change the color from blue to white. So let's see what that looks like Okay, we got white and maybe yeah, maybe that's not the right color for this one. Let's go with red We want some contrast. Okay, so we got the red little thing going on here now a couple options Here's the main ones. You don't need to adjust render quality This is generally good enough, but you can go ahead and change the polygon. So Let's right now. You'll see here when I go to the number of sides Let's see if I can find this there it is polygon It's currently got 64 sides and that is a circle But when I drop it to three watch this this is now a repeating Triangle shape and if we want to go to like five or nine or something like that We would have some sort of I don't know octagon or hexagon or Head of comb or whatever the hell it's called. I don't know but anyways adjusting the number of sides and once you get up to 64 Higher, it's basically a perfect circle Also, we can go ahead and while I got you here. We're gonna make some changes So curve size doesn't matter for a circle But if you go to let's say like something like this and you change the curve size You can see you can round the corner So if you don't want the sharp edges you can adjust that with curve size a circle is a perfect curve So that won't make much of a difference and you can also go ahead and adjust the curviness But that doesn't do too much for all you thick people out there myself included. All right good So there we go We've got repeating Shapes if you want to go ahead and increase the speed or the frequency that it happens This will make it like this is a really hardcore effect and this would be just very very simple So I'm gonna go ahead and increase the speed to five so you can see the difference and They're just launching a little bit faster And then here frequency is another one how fast and how much the expansion is so how like if you want a Larger version so let's go back to the beginning and expands out quickly great And my computer is pretty fast So I'm gonna reduce this and you should be able to see what's happening in real time Frequency of course is how fast these things fire So that's pretty frequent and we can always expand it and presto. You see where we're getting that guys This is an amazing thing if we want to spin it We can go ahead and add the spins to it So if we want to make it look really really cool, we just add some spin and here we go That's a lot of spin. That's a pretty trippy effect something you'd find in Scooby-Doo But anyways guys, this is how you go ahead and create repeating shapes repeating patterns inside After effects there's a fun a bunch of other things you can adjust the velocity this kind of curves it to the side You see what's happening here And yeah lifespan is how quickly and how long they last so if they want them to die off, etc And yeah, just awesome experiment with it, but this is one of my favorite effects. It's easy to use inside Adobe After Effects Thanks for watching