From the course: After Effects CC 2018: Editors and Post Essential Training
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Parenting to nulls - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CC 2018: Editors and Post Essential Training
Parenting to nulls
- [Instructor] Oftentimes in After Effects, we want to have one layer inherit the transformations of another layer. The act of making one layer follow another is known as parenting. And it can make your work flow much more efficient. Through parenting, any layer can then pass down it's animation to any of it's child layers. Here, we'll look at parenting to other layers, as well as parenting to nulls, since they have the added benefit of not being renderable. In this example, I have layer one animating in scale, from zero to 50 percent. And, all these other layers are not moving along with it. And so, if I wanted to make layer two, for instance, follow along with layer one, well, traditionally I would have to come here to layer two and enable the keyframe for the position and scale. And, let's work backwards here, and I know that's okay. Looks like it's hovering over in this area. And then now I need to take my scale, and make that down to zero. Let's see what that looks like. I'd have…
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