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00:00In this tutorial, I'll show you how to morph shapes in After Effects, so let's get to it.

00:04First, I'm going to create a new composition. It will be 1920x1080, 30 frames per second.

00:09Click OK, then select the rectangle tool, and feel free to set up fill and stroke as you wish.

00:14I might fill this set to solid color, and stroke is set to none.

00:18Then from the center of the composition, I'm going to click and drag,

00:21holding CTRL and SHIFT keys at the same time to give the shape proportional dimensions.

00:25Once you've created the shape, hold CTRL key,

00:28double-click on the pane behind tool to center the anchor point,

00:30then open the align tab, and align the shape into the center of the composition,

00:35and we can even label it, so let's go rectangle,

00:37then click away, so you're not selecting the shape layer,

00:40and come up here, click and hold the rectangle tool until you see these options.

00:44Select any shape of your choice, I'm going to select the ellipse tool,

00:47and do the same thing from the center, click and drag, create an ellipse,

00:51hold CTRL key, double-click on the pane behind tool, and align it into the center.

00:55Let's also label it.

00:56Now we need to find paths for both shapes, so let's open contents, ellipse one,

01:03and here we have ellipse path one, and for the rectangle, we go into rectangle one,

01:07and here we should see rectangle path one, we're going to right-click on each,

01:11and select convert to Bezier path, and let's do this for every shape that you have.

01:15So now we have just path one, we're going to open it, and here also path one, open that,

01:20and let's create keyframes at the start of the timeline, by clicking the stopwatch for each path.

01:26Now select both shape layers, and press U to see just the keyframes, right?

01:31Let's go like a second forward, and here I wish to morph the circle into the rectangle.

01:35So I'm going to select the rectangle path keyframe, this one, press CTRL C to copy it,

01:41then select the path for the circle, or any shape in your case, and press CTRL V to paste it in here,

01:48and you might encounter this where the shape sort of moves slightly,

01:51and to fix it, we go back to the first keyframe, press P for the selected layer,

01:57and create a keyframe for position.

01:59Let's go to one second again, open the align tab, and align it into the center.

02:04That'll create the keyframe.

02:05So if we press U now, we should see all the keyframes, and the shape doesn't really move that much anymore.

02:10Now if we drag and select all the keyframes, right-click any of them, keyframe assistant,

02:15easy, easy, we just press F9 as a shortcut.

02:17We should smoothen out the animation, and also we could enable motion blur by toggling this icon.

02:23If you don't see the column, click toggle switches and mode until you do,

02:26and enable motion blur from here, that'll also smoothen out the whole animation.

02:30After you've done that, you don't need the shape, the rectangle, or any other shape that you have anymore.

02:35You can either hide it, or delete it.

02:37And you can continue this process for as many shapes as you wish.

02:40So if we preview this, you can see the circle nicely morphs into the rectangle tool.

02:45And well, let's set up like a quick loop.

02:48So go to two seconds, copy the first keyframes, CTRL C, CTRL V.

02:52And now if we preview this, we should have like a closed loop.

02:55And that is how you morph shapes in After Effects.

02:58I hope you enjoyed this quick tutorial.

02:59Thank you guys for watching.

03:00I'll see you in the next one.

03:01Peace out.

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