From the course: After Effects Artist in Action: Eran Stern's Personal Transporter
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Bringing back the hands - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Artist in Action: Eran Stern's Personal Transporter
Bringing back the hands
In this movie, we will bring back the hand of the actor. We will use a technique with the Paint Tool. And, we'll actually paint on the Alpha channel to reveal the hands on top of the circle. If you are working with me, and you have access to the Project File, you can open up composition number 12 - Bring back the hands. What we did earlier is actually connected the Particle Circle composition to the Right-Hand Tracking Data. So, the minute that our actor is going to finish to draw the circle, and move his left-hand -- right-hand from our perspective, -- and grab it, we actually connected it using the Parenting Options in After Effects. And then, if I'm going to select layer number five, which is the Particles Circle layer, and press U, we also generated manual keyframes for the Position, Scale and Rotation. And so, it seems that if we will scrub the Timeline, Yuval, our actor, is holding this circle, and throwing it on top of himself. But if you look closely, you can see that the…
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