Have you ever wanted to create a star shape or a rectangle with rounded corners in Adobe Illustrator? Rufus Deuchler, Worldwide Design Evangelist at Adobe, shows you how to harness the various shape tools, and the "Flare Tool" to rapidly create basic shapes.

Have you ever tried to create a complex motion path in After Effects? This tip will show you just how well Illustrator and After Effects communicate using a simple copy and paste to the clipboard and transfer illustrations to motion paths in After Effects! Now you can make Illustrator's powerful drawing tools work as motion path creation tools in After Effects.

In this episode I'll not only show you how to create lines with arrows in Illustrator, but I will also show you how to give your arrows a little flare by reshaping them with the Pencil Tool.