Working with Shapes in Animate
While Animate can certainly make use of imported content, such as bitmap images, sound files, and other types of external media, the creation and manipulation of native vector shape objects is a workflow at which Animate excels. In the first section of this chapter, we are going to explore some of the shape creation tools within Animate and learn how to establish vector-based shape objects with the intention to apply motion to them in the upcoming sections.
We’ll now have a look at some of the important topics associated with the creation and manipulation of shapes within an Animate project. We’ll examine the set of tools that allows us to create shape objects and learn how to set different tool property values that directly influence aspects of the resulting shapes.
Understanding the shape tools
There may be more shape tools than any other type of tool within the Animate toolbar. Since the software is used by artists and creators...
