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The Puppet Overlap tool

The Puppet Overlap tool - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 13 Paint Roto and Puppet

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The Puppet Overlap tool

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- [Instructor] I'm going to quickly clean up my display by closing the Smoother panel, and if you like you could go ahead and Close All to close your other compositions, and there's two more puppet pin tools we haven't experimented with yet. One is called the Overlap tool. So if you have the files, go to the Comps folder and double click 05-Puppet-overlap*starter. I'll click the Puppet effect to see my pins inside the user interface panel. I'll show you a little bit of a problem with Puppet tool. Initially this is flat artwork, and After Effects does not know if any of these pixels are supposed to be in front of or behind other pixels. For example, if I grab this pencil and drag it upwards, you'll see that it crosses his neck. But if I drag it downwards, you'll see it actually goes behind his hip and leg. Well, what if I wanted the opposite? What if I want it to pass in front of his hip here? To do so, I need to give sections of this mesh priority in terms of how in front or how…

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