Animating shapes with path operations

- [Narrator] Within shape layers are a group of tools called…path operators that allow you to alter…and animate the shapes.…Path operators offer shape layers much more functionality…including the ability to draw on the paths.…Here we'll take a look at how to use trim paths to add life…to our shape layer.…So here's a common task that you might run into all the time…as an editor, animating a map and so here I need to get from…point A to point B, I need to show my audience that this…navigation shape is going to start here, and maybe follow up…here and maybe the route goes all the way down to move…toward our location marker which is this shape layer…that I've animated previously.…

Let's go ahead and take a look at that, it just rotates.…So how do we show the navigation path?…Well let's do that through the use of shape layers.…So making sure that nothing's selected here, I'm going to…create a brand new shape by using the pen tool, and I'm…going to predefine this, using I think red's okay and probably…a larger, let's go ahead and make this 30 so we can…