Chapter 9. Working with Shapes

Lesson Files

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Media

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Time

This lesson takes approximately 45 minutes to complete.

Goals

Draw shapes with the Bezier tool

Save a custom shape in the Library

Work with blend modes

Create animation with keyframes

Understand the difference between recording and manually setting keyframes

When you need to add a visual element to your composition, a shape is a great place to start. As you learned in Lessons 5, you can create rectangular and oval shapes with the Rectangle and Circle tools—but you can also use the free-form Bezier tool to create just about any shape you can imagine.

In the following four lessons, you’ll be working entirely in Motion, using shapes, text, ...

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