From the course: Prototyping Microinteractions with Adobe Animate

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Drawing basic shapes

Drawing basic shapes

- [Instructor] While you can absolutely use imported bitmap image files within your Animate project, the software itself excels at creating vector content. Let's now have a look at how to use some of the available tools to build assets for our micro interactions. If you look over to the side here, you'll find the toolbar. And your toolbar may be one column or two column. You can easily switch between one and two columns by simply resizing the toolbar by dragging it like this. I'm going to keep it at two columns here, and down in this secondary section, you'll find a number of different drawing tools. And the two that we're going to look at the most in this course are the Rectangle Tool and the Oval Tool. They both work basically the same way, let's go ahead and choose the Oval Tool. And with the tool selected, we can see the tool properties in our Properties panel here, and here we can change things like the Stroke, Fill and so on. I'm going to actually disable the Stroke, so clicking…

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