Layer Styles example in After Effects
This is a two-point path with some taper but no layer styles. A face if you will!

If you’re interested the taper of values are as follows:

However, by adding layer Styles it can look like this:

The layer styles are inner shadow, inner glow and bevel and emboss:



You can download the layer styles pre-set here and add it to your animation pre-sets folder:
By the way the main layer colour is

Finally, an example of an animation is