Create write-on paths

- [Instructor] Animating paths and strokes are…an essential technique for altering shapes…or other elements as if they were…being written on or erased off.…A shape layer's trim path operator…is a widely used After Effects tool that can achieve this.…Here, we'll take a look at some of trim path's…more powerful features to illustrate…what it brings to the toolset.…So previously, we built our flower based off of…a circle shape and repeater, but the stem itself…was created with the Pen tool, and if we twirl this down,…we see a shape and path.…

Let's go ahead and turn on our shape path visibility…and reframe this so we can see…the individual points that make this up.…So I have my selection tool enabled,…and I'm going to click and drag around…these different points, and you'll notice…that my path is treating the overall shape,…the overall form of this stem,…but the overall look, that's something different.…That comes from the stroke, so the stroke operator here,…if I twirl this up and come down to Stroke,…you'll notice that I have control over my color,…