Help with transparency overlapping of different layers?

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Hi! So I asked this question in the Illustrator community but they told me to try to do this directly in After Effects. I've done an animation that I need to export from AI to AE all in different layers, so that i can animate them separately. The thing is that these layers have transparency and they overlap and blend. In Illustrator you can group them and choose "knockout group" so that they dont blend. But I can't group them in Illustrator because I need the separate layers in AE. Heres what I have:

All in different layers and blending

This is how I want it to look. Is there any way of doing this in After Effects? I want the arms and body layers to not blend.

Thank you!

[Meng Zhiqun · Accepted solution]

The only way to do this is to switch all the layers opacity back to 100, create another master composition so that this current comp with the ghost is a layer in the master comp, and just lower the opacity of that ghost comp in the master comp.

[Mylenium]

Simple analogy: AI Groups = AE Compositions. No need to make it more complicated than that for the time being (obviously there are exceptrions from that rule, but that's a topic for another time). as already suggested, you need to animate your motion inside the pre-comp at 100%, then lower the opacity of the entire layer in the parent comp. There would be other ways to do it, but clearly with you being a neophyte there's no reason to make it too complicated.

Mylenium