Here you can see how the shape is in this shape, the ball is going to travel, you can find the first point out of the screen where the ball travels from out of the screen. Step 5: Now draw a shape according to our animation requirement, we have imported a ball object, so I draw a shape of up and down because I feel that the ball need to fall from up to down and jump step by step so I started the first point at the top and draw an up and down shape and ends at a corner where the ball needs to stop. Step 4: Select the pen tool to draw the shape. Step 3: Select the shape layer where we are going to draw a path for our animation. Step 2: We can animate the object with keyframe animation by changing the start and end position it’s a basic normal process anyone can do.īut if you need to do something different or creative animation, just go through the pen tool. Step 1: Import any of the objects which you willing to animate here, I am importing a ball. Not the only shape we can animate a particle with the help of a pen tool.įollowing are the steps of creating animation with the pen tool.

In this process, we saw how a shape is animated with the help of a pen tool, here we draw a line with a pen tool with the help of a path, we create a shape, and we use trim paths to animate that line by changing starting and ending points.Step 17: Here, we have the vector mode to edit the values to make our animation smoother. Step 16: When we move from start to end position, we can see the animation of the line moving from starting to end like a snake. Step 15: At the starting point, increase the value of End to 20 now we can find a small line.

The first start is with 0,0 in the start, and end values go to the next point where ever you need and give the value of 100,100 in start and end values.

Step 14: Here, we need to start the animation by applying it to the start and ending points. Step 13: Here, we change the values of start and end. Step 12: Now, change the values of start and end. Step 11: In this Trim path, there are two main options start and end. We can do multi animations with this trim path like Map route, infographic, text stroke, text box, circle bursts. Step 10: In this step, I am going to explain very important and useful option Trim paths let me tell something about the trim path some of the users who use aftereffects rarely may don’t know about this because it hides under the shape submenu, this tool allows you to adjust the layer paths. Step 9: By adjusting the points, we can get our shapes. Step 8: We can see the anchor points in the drawing now we can select every point and adjust the drawing. Step 7: Now, select the selection tool to adjust the points in the drawing by adjusting that points, we can bring the shapes according to us to get good shapes. Once we select the path, we can find the points in our drawing. Select the path as shown in the below image. Step 6: Go to the shape layer, content, shape. Step 5: Now here we go with the drawing, draw a shape of your wish with the help of a pen tool, draw a line like a curve’s no issues even you don’t get the correct shape because we have another option to correct the shape we can see that in the next step.Įvery time we will not get a good drawing, however, we use the pen tool while using the pen tool, in some places, we cant manage the curves and shapes in such cases, we have an option to correct the shape and curves let us see how Step 4: Select the Stock of color which you like always select an attractive color because it gives beauty to the animation.

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