: How to turn every object on my Artboard into different layers in Illustrator? I drew a popsicle and I want to animate it in After Effects but first I need to separate each object on my drawing

@Shanna688

Inside the Layers palette, highlight your desired layer choose the "Release to Layers" command. The "Build/Sequence" options of this command could be useful to you in different workflows. Sequence simply takes each of your art and places it into a layer of their own. Build will make a 'pyramid' of your art, with the art being duplicated with all pieces at the top and only the last piece at the bottom. I find it hard to describe, but see my attached screenshots.


The command is in the flyout menu.


Here is how my artwork starts out.


Here is the command done in Sequence mode


And here the command is done in Build mode.

For your animation project, this may help!

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@Angie364

You would need to manually select each element and then either CTRL+X (Cut) and CTRL+V (Paste) them onto a new layer or just drag the element to a new layer as in my example below.

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