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5. Right click on the layer where your sphere resides and select "Add Motion guide", you can access it also through Insert / Timeline / Motion guide.

Add motion guide

You'll notice that we now have a new layer called "Guide: name of the layer below"above the layer where our sphere resides. In our case it is called Guide : sphere

That guide layer is the layer where we are going to draw the path that we want our sphere to follow


Add guide


6. Select the first frame of the guide layer and select the
pen tool pen tool
Be sure to select the "Smooth" option for the path in the
options panel (fig6)

smooth tool fig6

Then, with the first frame of the guiding layer selected, draw a nice curve going towards the bottom right of your stage (fig7)

sphere path fig7

You will notice that, the sphere autosnap on the beginning of your path.

7. we now need to select the last keyframe of our motion tween (on the layer where the sphere resides) and to move the sphere at the end of the path we just drew
(fig8)

sphere path (fig8)



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