Introduction to Cavalry for Motion Graphics

Overview

“Now that you know how to create shapes, I will show you how editable shapes function within Cavalry. You will see how to manipulate or even animate the points and paths of these shapes.”

In this video lesson Kyle Daily addresses the topic: Editable Shapes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 2: Shapes, Objects, and Assets. Learn about shapes, and experiment with text, images, and data .

Partial transcription of the video

“ COURSE 2 - LESSON 2 Editable Shapes In this lesson, we'll work with editable shapes where we can manipulate their paths and animate certain properties. Let's jump in. Editable shapes are shapes that have paths and points, which can be manipulated and animated within Cavalry. For instance, we'll take this primitive square. We can see that it really is four points, but if we were to use the direct selection tool, or the Edit Shape Tool, with the shortcut A, and try to grab this point, we wouldn't be able to. Cavalry's smart and knows we're trying to do something and if we'd like to, we can ...”

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Course summary for: Course 2: Shapes, Objects, and Assets

• Level: Beginner
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