Guys I'll show you how to create a complex shape complex shape is very many shapes put together.
But at the end they form a single shape of course visually inside aftereffects.
And then as you can see it is different shapes but actually you can create very complex one.
And for this you are going to use the Mersch path.
Let's start with this start I doubleclick to create the filmstar here.
Turn down come to the Polish start path and give it for example 12 sites will do good.
I will come to the other radius and make it smaller.
Ok I need more maybe 2020 would be nicer.
Our aim here is to create a gear and this gear has to be looking like a single shape and the stroke
hit is to help us to determine how many ships you are seeing visually won't see a single ship.
We are going to start by chopping off the outside here.
The spikes here and we go by chopping off the spikes at the inner side.
Ocilla police on the ship itself not the group of ships and come to an ellipse.
This is I will make it quite big.
OK.
To chop the outside so I want to chop everything that is outside the ellipse.
If you start playing with these guys it might not work here.
OK it's actually not under your control.
These guys behave in a certain way because it's an exhaust.
If you want X or to be in control you need to add the most part.
I would select the add here and go and select the most part but it's either most but over here and I
would like to do is to look at the options we have merge doesn't do much.
Not just what happened here.
We're better off with the odd That has added the two shapes up pretty good and you have the subtract
also very cool.
You say guys you have these small spikes you can rotate them.
I have a son account.
I don't know.
Then you have the Intersect Well the sex seems it's working.
It has intersected the Eliphaz path one with the Palestine and everything outside this it has cut off.
You can see that these spikes have been cut off because we have the circle here and the polystyrene
inside is very nice.
Now I want to chop off these guys from here or we want to add something to cover them up.
I would select Mersch pass.
I stay in the poly star.
I will add now another ellipse.
You are this ellipse is above the Merced path.
I would click on it drag and put it on.
Now you could think about it like this.
Everything above this Mersch path is that it's merged together.
You notice the stroke and everything under still independent to work on this.
Let's take the ellipse itself and just grow it up to here for example let's see what happens.
Well you can still see that you have two shapes but actually did a good job here to merge all this together.
Of course you are going to use a mouse path.
So we've got to merge and use emersed path and this much should be at the end.
And we have to use the Add CD and we'll add them all together.
Wow.
Now you have something you have almost a gear.
So what is the logic here.
Mersch path we create for all the ships above like a single ship and using the mode here it depends
on how you want to create the shape you can add and subtract that or exclude the intersections.
So now at that point of this most Bestway have a single ship fight this creates the hole over here.
Now select most path to stay inside the group and then we go on and we add the so the Elop should be
under the most part.
OK because we want to work on everything that's above this Mersch path.
Then I'm going to grow the elipse whatever like for example here is good here you can use the reverse
path it will work.
But since we are in Mersch path let's add a space under the ellipse.
I would come and add in most part under the lips of course I want to put on the this pass will work
on this ellipse and this merged path which has merged all the above.
So this one I think I should take subtract will work.
Yup.
So you have a very nice good box here.
And if you look at the stroke you will notice that it's like a single shape.
It's not two three ships that you can see with the stroke and so on.
It's one single chip of course if you're doing the stroke they're going to be looking like it's in the
ship this close the police start here and choose content and go out and others that will double click
simply and just put it just over here.
OK.
So let's set that content and I've been ambushed by as soon as you add in the most part it has a stroke
and if one was the reason here there is a feel here.
These are group shapes.
It has struck tricky.
Because if you use the you are using the DOD It is a single ship which it requires stroke and it feel
so dramatically after effect added for you a stroke and a feel for the most part.
So actually this most part you can logically think about it as a single shape.
And look what happens.
You can just come and stage a stroke for everything within the most part.
OK.
Let's pull it back to its better.
And you have a single feel for all of them.
If I turn them the fail come over here make it more beautiful.
They get more reddish.
OK.
Here you are.
So the concept here is very powerful.
I will do the same for example within the police start to come over here like select this one and add
a new ellipse inside to make the hole and take the hole and go to bed just like this.
And maybe I can play with these guys is not working.
So I have to immerse path which I will.
Here is the path.
OK.
And of course in the past you know very well you don't.
You are going to use subtract.
OK.
Look what we have done.
Pretty cool guys right.
Now you can decide to come on and eat them but still you have two ships here two group of ships so if
you knew me it was in the transformed star.
Here's the rotation for example our keyframe over here at 0.
Go to the end and give it one rotation.
Pretty cool.
Come back to EARLY START to find that the transformed police start to and then keyframe the rotation
at minus 1 ok.
Come back to the beginning and put it at zero.
Now if I run the animation you'll have a ship that is rolling into itself and it's a very cool animation.
Now it's going to take some practice from you guys to start playing with the most part.
There's a certain logic and certain understanding but believe me it's extremely powerful to create some
amazing shapes that will make illustrator you know shape.
But mainly of course because you are animating them.
That's the power guys.
Thank you very much for listening to me and to the explanation for the most part and I hope you go out
and create some amazing shape.
Please create a video uploaded to YouTube.
I was so happy to see your work and be proud of how you are developing in the course.
Thank you.
I'll see you in the next lecture.