After Effects Apprentice,, 3rd Edition

Lesson 11

Shape Layers

Creating, animating, and extruding vector-based shapes.

In This Lesson

creating a shape layer

Stroke and Fill settings, editing shapes

multiple shapes

Even-Odd Fill

shape effects

creating buttons

Shape Repeater

compound shapes; Merge Paths

gradients

shape pen paths

Wiggle Transforms

advanced strokes; dashes and gaps

animating a stroke

create shapes from vector layers (new in CS6)

extruding shape layers (new in CS6)

Getting Started

Make sure you have copied the Lesson 11-Shape Layers folder from this book's disc onto your ...