From the course: Motion: Principles of Motion Graphics
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Add shapes for stronger composition - Motion Tutorial
From the course: Motion: Principles of Motion Graphics
Add shapes for stronger composition
- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to add some additional shapes to make the composition of this project look a little more interesting. And along the way, we're going to optimize our project and navigate the interface just a little bit so we can become a little bit more familiar. To get started, let's make sure we have the Layers panel open here in our project. Notice, if I click on the Project pane, I can see Layers, Media and Audio. So I definitely want to be in the Layers section. Notice, I have an overarching group that contains a layered Photoshop document, which is called Map With Overlays. I don't need this to exist in a separate group. So what I'm going to do is move the layered Photoshop document above the group layer like so 'til I can see that green plus button and I'll let go. Now you can see my map is over top of this other group. Now I have two other layers, which are overlays that I can use as…
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