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A grid of various potted plants and flowers in different pots and vases.

Animation

Create cleaner vector artwork in Adobe Illustrator for faster, smoother animation workflows in After Effects.

    Create cleaner animation-ready artwork

    Reduce rigging and morphing problems

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A smiling person with shoulder-length blonde hair wearing a dark green sweater stands against a dark background with a plant partially visible on the left side.

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Megan Friesth

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Build clean shapes

Create common vector shapes with Dynamic Shapes.

Improve shape morphing

Learn how to use PathScribe to improve your point placement.

Organize artwork for animation

Learn how to bulk rename your layers in Adobe Illustrator

Drawing perfect curves

Learn how to draw perfect curves and tangent lines with the SubScribe tool

Perfect symmetry

Learn how to create geometric vectors with precision and minimal anchor points

Export-ready files

Learn how to prepare your vector files ready for morph animation

The dynamic duo

Master creating the perfect shapes

Use Dynamic Corners and Dynamic Shapes to build animation-friendly vector icons.

Dynamic Shapes Dynamic Corners
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To the points

Perfect your point placement

Use PathScribe to adjust multiple handles simultaneously and add points without distorting shapes.

PathScribe
A teal oval shape with white and black handles on a red background, accompanied by a PathScribe tool window showing adjustments.

Throw some shapes

Generate quick pattern backgrounds

Space Fill can scatter vector objects in Illustrator, which means making backgrounds and patterns super quick and easy.

Space Fill
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Relevant for

Motion Designers

Animation Studios

UI Animators

Brand Designers

Explainer Video Creators

Broadcast Designers

Animation artwork appears on

Explainer Videos

Social Media Content

UI Animations

Broadcast Graphics

Logo Animations

Motion Design Systems

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A collage featuring six flowers in vases and pots: a red rose bud, blue daisy, blue forget-me-not, yellow flower, white daisy, and red tulip with green leaves on a black background.

Video 1

Workflow Setup

Megan Friesth introduces her process for creating clean, animation-ready vector artwork in Adobe Illustrator.
A digital illustration featuring flowers in pots and a vase, alongside a note pad and shape editing tools on a dark background.

Video 2

Shapes & Corners

Megan shows how geometric illustrations can be constructed with precision and minimal anchor points.
Two stylized flowers in a pot; one red rose and one blue flower with green leaves, both outlined with nodes on black background.

Video 3

Paths & Points

Megan explores advanced point and handle editing techniques with PathScribe and SubScribe.
A stylized plant and flower in a terracotta pot are displayed against a black background; digital interface elements for "Plants" and "Space Fill" tools are overlaid.

Video 4

Color & Details

Learn techniques for creating shadows, highlights, clipping masks, layered details, and decorative elements.
A digital illustration featuring various potted plants and flowers in different pots against a dark background, organized into three rows and four columns.

Video 5

Export-ready

Learn techniques for creating shadows, highlights, clipping masks, layered details, and decorative elements.

Meet your instructor

Megan Friesth

Megan Friesth has over a decade of experience writing, illustrating, and animating educational animations about human and planetary health. She teaches illustration and motion design through her business and YouTube channel, Animation Explained. As a self-taught motion designer, she knows where beginners get stuck, and is on a mission to help students learn more efficiently than she did. 
A smiling person in a green sweater against a dark background, with an orange starburst and blue curved shape on either side.

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