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Drawing custom shapes for animation

Drawing custom shapes for animation - Motion Tutorial

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Drawing custom shapes for animation

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- [Instructor] Stylized shapes give you the ability to draw a path in your project and repeat a shape along that path. As you repeat the shape, you can adjust things like the scale of the repeated object, the color of the repeated object, and a whole host of other really neat things that are fun to animate. So in this video, we're going to focus on how to actually draw the shape into the scene, and then we'll customize that shape and animate it in another video. So to start, let's look at our project. I'm going to go ahead and press the play button here and you can see I've got rotating dots, and then I have the dots fly out and the title reveal. So I'll stop playback here and move my playhead back to about three seconds in the timeline. This is where I want a line to animate in and spin around, and then basically disappear into the middle of the image. And once it disappears, that's going to cause the particles to…

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