

before the fact - proper workflow: it is already known that opacity and blend mode (and not only them) don't translate to a corresponding shape anyway, so this makes this an easy workflow decision: if you do plan to convert to shapes, prior to importing to Ae - set your blend modes to normal and opacity to 100% if it's not.


it's actually a good thing: Re: AI (illustrator) layers not showing up in AE (after effects) CC 2014 ) It could look like something like this if you work in an HD Preset.īTW HD preset gives you 2 artboards. Opacity or blend mode changes (and possibly some other variables) to any object in your illustrator file will cause the "create shapes from vector layer" feature to any of the layers to behave in the following manner: your shape layer will have an additional group in the shape hierarchy that will contain paths that constitute your Ai artboard and another merge paths operation.
