Animation of Shapes and Masks: Painless Morphing in After Effects

This video is related to the desktop wallpaper video from a few weeks back and takes the kind of shapes used in that video and animates them using a bare minimum of key framing. Morphing shapes is really easy in After Effects, but the technique isn't at all intuitive and there were a couple of issues with smoothness of the animations that I felt needed to be ironed out before I was happy with the result. Older versions of After Effects may work different when it comes to shapes, but you can always us