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Fine-tune the Puppet tool

Fine-tune the Puppet tool - After Effects Tutorial

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Fine-tune the Puppet tool

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- [Narrator] The puppet tools and after effects create a distortion mesh for our layer. We'll see how we can further refine that for our character here in this movie, Here in our example, I have my two characters who are depicting a robbery in progress. Let's play this and you can see now that my thief has a bit more embellishment on the magnet movement, he's just pulling it back towards himself. And as he does, the magnet appears in front of his face, and then again, behind his face. Now I am using one layer for the thief but thanks to the puppet tools, I can have after effects render a portion of the layer in front or behind itself. Let's see how we can do this. Let's come over to puppet overlap start, let's go and dive into that layer. And you'll note that under effects, there we have our puppet effect along with our mesh and the deformed pins that we've set up here. Now, I went through a name, some of these…

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