i'm pretty new to animating in After Effects. One project i'm working on is simulating keys being pressed on a piano keyboard. I'm wondering what the best way to do this would be.
This is the before state:
This would be the after:
I've imported the Illustrator vector layers into After Effects and now i'm just kind of stuck. How would I actually animate these vector objects? In Flash it'd be relatively easy, I could just grab the shape and pull it down... this isn't the case in AE though. Do I need these vector elements to be shape layers in order to manipulate them as I would in Flash? If so, I'm using AE 5.5, and I don't know how to convert AI vectors to AE shape layers. Any advice out there?
thank you!