Mt. Mograph set out to remind us that complex animated effects in Ae doesn’t necessarily require hours of key framing. You can easily create an animated morph with shapes in Ae without knocking yourself out by setting endless keys.
Matt Jylkka shows how you can paste Adobe Illustrator paths as After Effects Shape Layers to create the effect. This allows you to blend or build an animated morph with shapes quickly, saving you tons of time.
Check out the tutorial for quickly creating an animated morph with shapes in Ae here.