NOTE: Make sure all layers are deselected before you use the Rectangle tool. Otherwise, After Effects will draw a mask for the selected layer instead of a shape in a new shape layer. If you look at the Timeline panel, you will see a shape layer has been added. Next, click in your composition in the Composition panel. To draw a rectangle shape, click on the Rectangle tool in the Tools panel. It is circled below. In addition, you can also apply animation presets to shapes much in the same way we did with text in the last section. There are five shape tools available in After Effects. These tools are the Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Star, Ellipse, and Polygon. Once you draw a shape, you can format the shape by adding stroke and fill colors, as well as linear and radial gradients. This layer is called a shape layer. Once you create a shape layer, you can specify the fill and stroke color, the transparency, and the gradient. You can also animate the shapes.Ĭreate wiggly shapes to create things such as waveforms Whenever you use a drawing tool to create a shape, a new layer is created.
You can use the drawing tools in After Effects to draw different shapes.
