Found this tutorial, which actually suits my need perfectly. It's a bit of a simple tutorial, but I wasn't aware of how to do this effect anyways, so it still ended up being useful. My Project 5 is about a shape that has to overcome obstacles by changing itself (and acting as an allegory for things being harder than you think they should be), so the shape morph effect I found will be my foundation. I might go hunting for other tutorials depending on what I feel like is possible for me (I'll be looking into gradients and color). The storyboard looks like a lot, but I pen a lot of the smaller motions for my own sake.
