From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 13 Paint Roto and Puppet
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Overview of the Puppet Pin tool - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 13 Paint Roto and Puppet
Overview of the Puppet Pin tool
Next we're going to show you a wonderful set of distortion tools in After Effects, known incredibly as the Puppet tools. But before we do so you need to reset your workspace. It's probably at Paint right now, go ahead and set it back to Standard and select Reset "Standard" to make sure you're at a good, clean starting point. Now I'm going to go ahead and switch to my special AEA workspace which optimizes the layout for screen capture but it is very similar to Standard. If you have access to the Exercise Files that came with this lesson, go to the Comps folder and open up the Comp O4-Puppet*starter. Now for those who're in a modern art you may recognize this as a character from a mural painting called Harlequin's Carnival, and there is lots of interesting appendages for us to tug on, bend, and distort. To perform puppet distortion you use the Puppet tools represented by this Pushpin icon along your toolbar. If you don't see your toolbar by the way it's underneath Window>Tools. I'm…
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