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Using the Puppet tool - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
Using the Puppet tool
Folks, in this movie we're going to be looking at the Puppet tool, one of the most genius tools in any software application that I have ever come across. If you are new to the world of After Effects, this will absolutely blow your mind, guaranteed. Now let's first talk about our dilemma here. We've animated all of the other components of our project, but we have this biker left over. There is really no degree of position, rotation, scale and opacity that can help us to bring this still image of this girl on a bicycle to life, in any kind of real, believable way. In real life, she would have flesh and joints that would bend and move and react in a certain way. And because she is just a still image, that's going to be almost, if not, completely impossible to duplicate in an animation program, and that is the case, if it were not for the Puppet tool. So, go ahead and select the Biker Body layer. That's layer number 6 and that is basically if I turn off the visibility of this layer…
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