Having some fun with vector shapes in After Effects, Vic Garcia shows how to convert an Illustrator file into After Effects Vector Shapes to create some animation using After Effect’s vector shape attributes.

in this tutorial, I will show you how to Convert an Illustrator file into a Vector Shape using After Effects CS6

You are able to get some pretty intricate animations going pretty easily with After Effects vector shape Attributes, and here Facade uses the the Repeater and Trim Paths Attributes to animate some paths that were converted from Adobe Illustrator using the “Create Shapes from Vector Layer” in After Effects.

For the most part, using the After Effects Vector Shape attributes for animation are fairly straight forward, and Facade provides a great overview to get started with vector animation.