Working with animator shapes

Using different Shape options, you can significantly change the appearance of an animation.


Setting the Shape to Triangle

Changing the transitions between characters in an animation:

1. Create a new composition.
2. Create a text layer with the characters "01234".
3. Position the cursor away from the text in the Composition window and when the type cursor changes to the move cursor , drag to move the text to the top of the window. Resize it if necessary so that it fits within the window.
4. Choose Animation > Animate Text > Position.
5. Expand Range Selector 1.
6. Make sure the current-time indicator is at 0 seconds and click the End stopwatch and set End to 0.
7. Move the current-time indicator to 5 seconds and set End to 5.
8. Adjust the y Position value so that the text appears at the bottom of the Composition window.
9. Preview the animation.
10. Click Advanced and choose Triangle from the Shape pop-up menu; then preview the animation.
11. Choose Square from the Shape menu and preview the animation; then set Ease High to 100% and preview the animation.
12. Set Ease High to -100 and preview the animation again.
13. Set different options from the Shape menu and preview the resulting animations.