Simple shapes—circles, squares, ellipses, and more—can be valuable building blocks in an animation. A rectangle shape can be a basic background for a lower-third title, or it can be the base of a complex, three-dimensional clone animation. In this movie, Ian Robinson introduces the fundamentals of building, transforming, and animating basic shapes.

In this quick tip, Julieanne demonstrates the most flexible way to create a transparent circle around an object.

In this video tutorial, Eran Stern explains how to design a Counting Circle Animation with the After Effects Text Tool.

See how Paramount is successfully using Flash Platform technologies to take its content to multiple devices, resulting in new revenue streams and greater customer reach.

Add Flash graphics to Flex 3 and Adobe AIR applications. Duane Nickull shows how to create an object and how to change its characteristics such as position, size and color.