3. Shapes, Masks, and Paint

When creating illustrations, backgrounds, or other design elements, the shape, paint, and mask tools achieve diverse goals: produce filled shapes for use as graphical elements, create elements by using a continuous painting-like movement, and make masks to create transparent areas. Although these three Motion tools perform different functions, they all use control points to create closed or open shapes.

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Creating Simple Shapes

You can create common shapes in Motion using the Rectangle, Circle, and Line tools.

  1. From the Toolbar, choose the Rectangle, Circle, or Line tool, depending on which object you want to create. ...

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