After effects pen tool

You can do so much to do with the Pencil tool, and it is one of the tools that can behave quite differently if you hold your mouth right. So make sure and keep your mouth good!

Seriously, there are a few things, some settings that come with the pen tool to do otherwise, will present the various controls for you, but if you (once a deal to her, yes, it was cheesy pun After Effects is), you will appreciate the flexibility and control they afford. Like all our shapes and drawing tools to learn the best way is that I hope your After Effects is open and ready to go.

When you create a new composition, all you need to do to get started on creating shapes with pen tool, select it and withdraw. The usual "right click", is "new layer" layer in the source region of your time the panel is not required. Drawing with the pen tool to create your shape layer. The pen is the easiest and most difficult drawing tools, as the ad says that the behavior, the number of clicks it takes for the "arrival" can be a bit frustrating to get this implemented. I'm sure there are times when a "double click" not to take it to the State to turn you expect to see it, the indicators and their behavior helps keep your hair.

Let's start drawing with the pen tool. Choose a pen, select a color and line thickness you want and apply the numbers. The first thing you see is that you do more than draw a curved line. How to use your points, you can see that the form is ready for you. Color display, fill out the form between the first and last points that you have specified. Hmmmm. Is that what you wanted? Perhaps, but if you're just a curved line, click on the right side of the toolbar, fill "(the word" Fill "is not the fill color icon), and get the click, click on the icon to subscribe to fill with the red cut. Now begins drawing of the application of paragraphs with your pen tool and you see something much closer to your curved line.

How to use your points, straight lines appear between paragraphs. What happens if you take a little "curveyness" on your line, what if you want to subscribe to a coil or an "S" curve? "How can you make your points are valid, move the mouse before releasing them a bit, it appears in the desired direction to apply a curve and you will see is the Bezier. In this way, you can order some curvature to your line and the "handle" when you get back to editing, is currently the same exercises as you adjust to the shape of the application of curvature, as you will pull the handles away from the line.

Have taken with your line, do you always go back and not "something". How to choose it and what are you choosing? They have drawn a complete form, is your form of lines and curves together, and points to adapt and to be all of you here and each of them separately.

Show on the simplest level, you can click and drag a previous point. Create your form when you click, double click it, you have used to describe the shape of a rectangle with dotted sides, and you created the "points" to construct it. The point is clear rectangles. If you feel, it will be fixed, you know, that's the point you change your shift and you just copy them to. When you point one curve has been applied to him, you'll see the handles that let you adjust the curvature of approaching and leaving this point, and moving point. Too many points? Need to add one more? When you click the pen tool again with the key combination "G" walks through feather processing options: read-only once, you will see a plus sign next to your pencil icon to a new number with a "click to add" Type "g" again, you will see a minus sign next to the pencil icon. This means that you remove an item, when clicked. Type "g" again, and it becomes a pencil tool corner, but it's different when you come to a point Bezier handles, an issue that simply connected 2 lines, then a control point of curvature. Many small things like asking for a little experiment yourself comfortable and take the pictures you want.

Do you know of a layer to transform and attributes, if one takes these forms, you can have multiple forms on the same plane. You can make a star with an ellipse overlay, or make curved line within the bounding box for a logo. When you start to develop your film, the process of choosing your form and exactly what you are worth some attention in the sample.

My favorite test form is a curved line, because of simplicity and because there are several points that make it easy to visualize and experiment with this "election rules." Click the cursor to the left of the toolbar takes you from the drawing mode. write 'F2', also disable any kind has been drawing. Click once on your curved line. If you do, you have the whole shape layer. When you select them, and they sat down to move, would you change the properties of the transformation shape layer.

Double-click your curved line, and you will choose the route, not the entire planet. You will see the company of a rectangle with dotted lines. You can use this form, your curved line independent of other forms on the plane, and Transform: Shape settings, if you. In the same location, you can click and make the points that make your shape, our curve in this example. If you double-click, you click again, when you are in this form select mode, you will begin to change the situation for free. You can use the free transform tool similar to Photoshop, you can rotate, distort the size and "spin" it is on axis, vertically or horizontally. These movements are not recorded values in your conversion, and that drove me crazy for a while because you can animate these adjustments. Just enter the stopwatch path attribute moving time indicator fell to the timeline, make your changes to freedom of changing the mode, type the path to a new keyframe at home and in the preview kind of animation with free transform adjustments created to ensure.

You must create a very flexible tool that can do it with virtually every form of freedom and dependency, the greater your design is used, but most of the variables, is more than one monitor, and impose fine-tuning, a little experimentation far.