From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 07 Parenting
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Parenting with null objects - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 07 Parenting
Parenting with null objects
In this movie, we're going to show a slightly more sophisticated application of parenting and to help raise or animate our children we're going to use a nanny, known as a null object. First, let's see where we're going with this. If you've got the project files, open up the Finished Movies folder and double-click Parenting2. In After Effects CS5 or later, that will open it up in the Footage panel. If you're using After Effects CS4, hold down Option on Mac or Alt on Windows, double-click, and then it will open in Footage. I'll press the 0 key to RAM preview and you see we have a bit of a title animation going on here, where we've got a number and a globe scaling up. We have the words Season Finale animating on from the left. We have a type animation on TOMORROW on the right, and as the globe and number scale up and move to the left, we've got the word such as TOMORROW moving along with it. How do we create this coordinated animation with a minimum number of keyframes and in a way to…
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