How to Animate Shapes in After Effects

If you’ve ever worked with a shape inside of Adobe After Effects then you’ve no doubt had some confusing moments. The layout of a shape layer isn’t exactly intuitive. You can easily lose track of a shape in the sea of groups, paths, attributes, and transform properties. Understanding how these layers work will help you master how to use them.

You can create a lot with these colorful little vectors, including dynamic transitions, colorfully animated backgrounds, and motion graphics elements for a lower third. Turn masks and text layers into editable shapes for some versatile and dynamic options in post. You can even harness the power of the Adobe CC family and import Illustrator layers as shapes.

So we can say with certainty that shapes layers are some of the key features you can’t miss from After Effects as they allow you to modify and animate vector art forms.

We'll cover everything from creating shapes, the pen tool, how to make paths from Photoshop and illustrator files, presets, shape effects, morphing and 3D shapes and so much more!

By the end of this course you will know everything about working and animating shapes inside After Effects so I look forward to seeing you on the inside