I'm attempting a very simple animation where three circles ease out from the center. I would like these balls to have a metaball (liquid) effect so they appear sticky/liquid, but because I also need full control of the shapes, and physics engines are way overkill for something so simple, I'm hoping there is a much better way to accomplish this besides hand animate this in Illustrator frame by frame (where I do have a very simple metaball script (thanks to Hiroyuki Sato).
Here's the basic animation.. It's pretty much the same first animation you ever created in Flash LOL:
http://files.flashvenom.com/uploads/Anim.swf
So, hopefully you can get what I'm after.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!