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Using the Puppet tool outside of puppets

Using the Puppet tool outside of puppets - After Effects Tutorial

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Using the Puppet tool outside of puppets

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- [Instructor] I love making puppets with the puppet tool. I love it. I'm sure you do, as well. I mean you're not inhuman puppet hating monsters out there, but guess what? There's more to the puppet tool than making puppets. So, let's take a look at a few additional ways in which you can use this distort tool. In my first comp here that I have in chapter five in the folder 03_Puppet Tool Outside of Puppets, 03a_Puppet Pins with Wiggle, woo, that's a mouthful, I have an animation of me riding a motorcycle along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina with a friend of mine hanging on the back, and we're having a good time, but I want her blonde hair to actually sway, and flow, and wiggle in the wind. So, to do this, I will use the puppet tool. I'm going to hit the space bar to pause playback. I'll make sure I have lady hair selected here. I'm going to go up to my puppet pin tool up top, select it, and just to start off, I will do show mesh. I'm going to go ahead and hit command plus…

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