Slowly morph 2D shapes using reshape

[Ignatius Gorin]

Ok, I pretty much found my way through AE (5.5 here BTW) to apply your technique. Two things : I couldn’t find the template function, so neither could I lock it or hide it. When you say “This is a template: lock it” how do I tell AE that it is one (template) 😕 Also the version installed here is in French…

But it looks about ok, except one thing : aliasing on the circle edge… what I end up with here is useless due to that.

How could I do so the circle’s contour is smoother?

Thank you again.

[Ignatius Gorin]

Ok I think I found the “lock” function, left of the timeline, along with video/audio/solo right?

Now I’m left with the aliasing problem.

TIA.

[Ignatius Gorin]

(…trying to find some kind of resample thing in AE, like Photoshop’s bicubic, since it’s Adobe, I still have hopes 🙂

[Ignatius Gorin]

Ok, found it (anti-alias/quality toggle).

THANKS!-)

(… and I apologize as I know I’ve been kind of spaming this thread this morning)

[Steve Roberts]

I didn’t mean “template” as a technical term … sorry. I just meant that you should use it as the example when moving your mask points into position. You could make it a guide layer, I suppose.

Steve 🙂

[Carolyn Fusinato]

it’s actually even easier than this

1. make a perfect circle mask by picking the circle mask tool clicking on the center of the comp & while dragging hold down the apple & shift keys. set a mask shape keyframe

2. move ahead in the timeline and click on “Shape” next to the “Mask Shape” attribute. In the dialog the comes up choose “Rectangle”

& that’s it….unless I’m missing something

-Carolyn

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