Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
If you want to create a circle out of circles in Adobe After Effects, you can do that pretty easily with an effect called “Repeater”.
The first thing you do is to create a “Shape Layer” in your composition, then open that up and click “Add” and “Ellipse”.
I’m going to add a “Fill” as well so that I can change the color easily.
Now, select “Contents”, click “Add” and “Repeater”.
Then, under ”Repeater”, change “Copies” to the amount of circles that you want, and then under “Transform”, change Position to 0 and 0.
Now you want to hold down the “option”-key (or “alt” on PC) while clicking on the stopwatch icon next to “Rotation”.
Type in 360, slash, and then instead of typing in the amount of copies, click and drag the “pick whip”-icon next to “Rotation” up to the text “Copies”.
This gives you the option to change the number of copies later and have the expression updating the distribution of the circles automatically.
Now go up to “Ellipse Path” and next to “Position”, change the Y-value (which is the second value) and your circle with circles is ready and you can change the number of copies as you like.
For more quick After Effects tutorials like this, I will link a playlist at the end of this video and in the comment section below, you can also download my 12 free motion graphic templates. Thanks for watching!
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If you want to create a circle out of circles in Adobe After Effects, you can do that pretty easily with an effect called “Repeater”.
The first thing you do is to create a “Shape Layer” in your composition, then open that up and click “Add” and “Ellipse”.
I’m going to add a “Fill” as well so that I can change the color easily.
Now, select “Contents”, click “Add” and “Repeater”.
Then, under ”Repeater”, change “Copies” to the amount of circles that you want, and then under “Transform”, change Position to 0 and 0.
Now you want to hold down the “option”-key (or “alt” on PC) while clicking on the stopwatch icon next to “Rotation”.
Type in 360, slash, and then instead of typing in the amount of copies, click and drag the “pick whip”-icon next to “Rotation” up to the text “Copies”.
This gives you the option to change the number of copies later and have the expression updating the distribution of the circles automatically.
Now go up to “Ellipse Path” and next to “Position”, change the Y-value (which is the second value) and your circle with circles is ready and you can change the number of copies as you like.
For more quick After Effects tutorials like this, I will link a playlist at the end of this video and in the comment section below, you can also download my 12 free motion graphic templates. Thanks for watching!
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🎞 FREE (and paid) digital products for video creators:
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tubebuddy.com/davidlindgren1989&x=homepage
🎵 2 extra months of music library "Artlist" for FREE:
artlist.io/David-121249
🧠 Learn more about Adobe Premiere Pro:
youtube.com/watch?v=ExOzQ6uCso0&list=PLgJlbAYg0mEkXrbeSUcXFU8ax-y-21Ndb
🧠 Learn more about Adobe After Effects:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgJlbAYg0mEnZDvh9LUAz-t0rAjCgH8IQ
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