just recently motion designer Evan Abrams showed a few techniques to achieve a fine control of limbs with shapes strokes: Animate Shape Layer Arms & Legs - Adobe After Effects tutorial - YouTube. Shape path manipulation is usually done in a traditional way of animating i.e refining the animation manually. I know I could use the puppet pin tool but it's not as clean as animating the shape path itself. I wanted to create controller to easily animate. please submit a feature request so in the future we could maybe have a way to manipulate vertices with transform properties Feature Request/Bug Report Form
Too bad we have to buy an expensive plugin for this feature.
