The relationship between shapes and Paint
When you start to dig deep and look under the hood of Motion, you'll start to see that several different tools and systems that exist are derived from the same engine. Nothing could be more true about shapes and Paint. Let's take a look to see how they're related.
How to do it...
In this exercise, we're going to create a shape and see how we can turn it into a brush stroke.
Launch Motion and choose a project with a Preset of Broadcast 720p, Frame Rate of 29.97, and with a Duration of 8 seconds. Press Shift + Z to fit the Canvas window. Select the Line tool underneath the Rectangle tool on the toolbar as shown in the following screenshot. Make sure you're at the beginning of the project.
Drag a line across the screen, holding down the Shift key to keep it straight. Press the Esc key to go back to the Selection tool and the F7 key to bring up the HUD.
Change the line to a color of your choosing and notice in the following screenshot how the icon next...
