9. Animating Shapes and Using Masks

Lesson overview

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

  • Animate shapes with shape tweens.

  • Use shape hints to refine shape tweens.

  • Animate gradient fills.

  • View onion skin outlines.

  • Apply easing to shape tweens.

  • Create and use masks.

  • Understand mask limitations.

  • Animate the mask and masked layers.

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This lesson will take about 1 hour to complete.

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