The trick to making Intersecting Shapes in After Effects

A quick tutorial for @Adobe Video & Motion After Effects.

In this video, I answer a question I see a lot on forums: “How can you get one shape to cut out bits from another?”

It’s a clean look effect which a lot of people think is really complicated, involving track mattes, masks and parenting.

But it’s not complicated! It’s super-easy, barely an inconvenience. (Thank you @Screen Rant ). Once the intersecting shapes are set up correctly, a transfer mode, then I share a simple method to change their colours so that you’re not stuck with black and white.

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