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Creative Motion Mastery with Adobe After Effects

You're reading from   Creative Motion Mastery with Adobe After Effects Learn the ins and outs of motion graphics, post-production, rotoscoping, and VFX

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804617281
Length 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vishu Aggarwal Vishu Aggarwal
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Working with Motion Graphics
2. Chapter 1: Getting to Know the User Interface and Workflow FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Applying Effects and Presets to Create Animated Graphics 4. Chapter 3: Deep-Dive into Text Animations 5. Chapter 4: Animating Shape Layers 6. Chapter 5: Adding Motion to Photoshop and Illustrator Graphics 7. Chapter 6: Creating Motion Graphic Templates for Premiere Pro 8. Part 2: Post-Production and Visual Effects
9. Chapter 7: Color Correction and Color Grading 10. Chapter 8: Rotoscoping and Mask Tracking Techniques 11. Chapter 9: Chroma Keying 12. Chapter 10: Working with Particle Simulations 13. Part 3: 2D and 3D Tracking, and Rendering
14. Chapter 11: Working with 2D and 3D Tracking 15. Chapter 12: Exporting and Managing Projects 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with Bezier paths

Now, we want to make it taper from the bottom, meaning the bottom should be narrow and the top should be wider to make it look like a funnel. So, for this, we will follow these steps:

  1. We could just change the bottom vertex points in the coordinates, but since we did not select Bezier Path from the Tools panel options, it is showing us the Rectangle 1 properties, which does not give access to the individual vertex points. However, we can easily convert this shape into a Bezier path.

    To convert the shape into a Bezier path, right-click on Rectangle Path 1 and then select Convert To Bezier Path. You will see it becomes an editable path. It shows Path 1, which is what we will select to get access to all four individual vertex points of the shape path.

Figure 4.7: Shape Layer 2 converted to a Bezier path

Figure 4.7: Shape Layer 2 converted to a Bezier path

  1. Now, we need to select the bottom two vertex points together for Shape Layer 2. To do so, go to the Selection tool...
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