Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book (2022 release)

4. Working with Shape Layers

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Create custom shapes.

• Customize a shape’s fill and stroke.

• Use path operations to transform shapes.

• Animate shapes.

• Taper strokes in shapes.

• Snap layers into alignment.

• Use the Create Nulls From Paths panel.

This lesson will take about an hour to complete. If you haven’t already done so, download the project files for this lesson from adobepress.com/AfterEffectsCIB2022, following the instructions in the Getting Started section under “Accessing the lesson files and Web Edition.”

PROJECT: ANIMATED ILLUSTRATION

Shape layers make it easy to ...