---AE Basics 18: Shape Layers Part 3 - Text & The Pen Tool

AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 19: In the third tutorial looking at Shape Layers in After Effects, Andrew Devis shows how to use both the Text tool and the Pen tool to create shapes in After Effects.

For the Text tool, Andrew demonstrates methods to animate the shapes created as well as how to group shapes so that although still all being able to be animated individually, they can also be animated together as a group. For the Pen tool Andrew shows how to use RotoBezier and how to create Bezier handles with each point created for better custom shape creation as well as how to break those handles when needed.


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