Hi guys and welcome to this new lecture about shapes and Mersch by Mersch path are a way to create compound
or complex shapes and the best example I can give you here is to create a good from then on you will
understand most path and you can go ahead and create very complex shapes the way you like them.
They start by creating a start.
I would click on Start two and go and create my funny style.
As always we give it more spikes or corners come to the Poly start here in the poly Star Bar.
We increase that in around nice I will be cool.
Fine.
And we want to adjust it in the middle center.
We put the position in Transform start to zero.
Now it's in the middle of the left or center.
I will come to Pollstar let's say this wrong we'll call it a group and we sigi.
For example I would create here a ellipse and from this ellipse I want to start trimming the top the
spikes of the Gaea I would come to the ellipse here and scale it up decide where I want to scale it
to trim the top exactly that that will be fine.
Now since I wanted to limit these ones might not work with you at all now is a really different job
so I will use the merge but I will come to the gear group and I will go and use the path the Mersch
pass game under the star and the ellipse.
And these are the two paths that will be merged I would come to and use substract for example.
So we have an interesting shape but not really what you want let's say about the intersect that is working.
It has chopped off the spikes and it's looking good.
The boss has here has made the intersection between the ellipse and the polystyrene can put the Polish
side on top.
It's still the same.
Eric I will come to the ellipse part and can make it bigger or smaller.
The way I would like to find.
That's OK.
Now I have immersed.
So these two ships have been merged and the last shape is contained inside the most part.
Let's add another ellipse because I want to remove these spikes here from the inside take the ellipse
and put it under my most path.
Fine.
Now I will get the ellipse to be bigger.
For example over here and here you are.
I have now my kind of will I like this one pretty much.
I want to add the whole in here to put together for example the shaft inside.
So you have here emersed path one and ellipse path one.
These are two ships.
I want to merge them in one to make a hole in the middle.
What I will do I will add another Mersch path and take it under that leaps and just make it or merge.
If helike is the same so that my last final shape here all the ship path is everything that I can see.
I would come and add an ellipse in the middle and take it under the path and add another Mersch path
under the ellipse.
Notice how it's coming.
So now I will make this one substract So the small ellipse has been substracted from Mersch But to that
is everything above fine.
I will make my ellipse a bit bigger.
You have now a very nice gear that you can of course.
Any made either from the gear group or from the layer that's emitted from the polystyrene we can't do
that with keyframe.
The rotation come after four seconds give it for example three and read on it I believe you.
So now you're not sure you have your gear that is turning extremely fast.
Let's make it only one.
So we see it slowly.
Here you are.
This is how you use Mersch path but so the concept of it is inside the group.
You can add more spot and use the four or five modes that you have here add subtract intersect and exclude
intersection to create some very nice shapes.
This is one Chibs just by changing a single Mersch But of course you want to train on this you want
to make sure that you know exactly how it works.
You can come now outside the group in the content add another shape for example and a rectangle just
for the sake of giving the example and make the rectangle a bit bigger.
OK.
Put it like this just for the example is not going to look good at all we can use now.
Emersed path under the rectangle and say for example abstract.
So subtracting everything from the outside.
Or we can say intersect and you can see the gear has been chopped off.
So the merged path can either be used in side the group or inside the content here and you can blame
it all it's actually much but are very useful and you can use them to create companionships.
Thanks very much for listening and I hope you will use the most path go to after effects and start playing
with the most pass and see exactly what you can do.
Now it's important that you collect all this information and train yourself using all the strategies
that they gave in shapes here and I'm going to give you much more.