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February 14, 2025
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Replacing a Shape While Keeping Keyframes in After Effects

  • February 14, 2025
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Hey everyone,

I'm working on some simple Lottie animations and have already created an animated design using circles with different stroke sizes around them. I animated them with keyframes and now want to recreate the same animation but with different shapes—hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs—instead of circles.

 

I know that in After Effects, you can replace footage and images, but I haven't found a way to swap out shapes while keeping all existing keyframes intact. Does anyone know a way to do this?

If there's a plugin that could make this process easier, I'd love to hear recommendations.

 

Thanks in advance!

1 reply

Rene Andritsch
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 14, 2025

Have you tried to copy the shape group of the other shapes and copy it to the Contents of the already animated Shape?

 

 

nishu_kush
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 14, 2025

What kind of animation it is? Is it only position, rotation, and scale? If so, you can create new shapes and parent them with the existing animated layer.

Hope it helps.


Thanks,
Nishu