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Introducing the Puppet tool - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CC 2023 Essential Training
Introducing the Puppet tool
- [Instructor] After Effects has a unique tool that allows for deforming a layer in localized sections. With the Puppet Tool, we can add pins to areas of our layer that we want to move, rotate, scale or stay put. It has many uses and is widely used for character animation. We'll see a small portion of that here. I'll come over to my second composition. And here, we have a little bit of animation with this thumb scrolling through the phone. And all we're doing is animating a few puppet pins on the thumb layer. So, let's see how to make that happen. In my 03 composition, I have the same artwork and this time what I'll do is hit the shy layers to focus in on just the thumb and the phone layers. In fact, let's solo the thumb and I'll zoom in. Now because the Puppet Tool is in effect, you might think that you can add it through the effect menu or the effects and presets panel. However, because it works a little differently, we…
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