From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 13 Paint Roto and Puppet
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The cloning process explained - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 13 Paint Roto and Puppet
The cloning process explained
Before we cover all these various clone options, let's just review how cloning basically works. Just like in Photoshop, you find an object that you want to clone. I press the Option key on Mac, Alt key on Windows, and click to set the origin point. If this is the first time I've clicked in the Layer panel, I may be just bringing the panel forward. So let's click again just to make sure I am setting the origin point. When I release the Option or Alt key and move to another area of the layer panel, when I start painting, I will clone that element. But if I want to repeat elements, I just Option+click on them and repeat that. Now since I didn't spend any time setting the size of my brush, if I pick a large element, I will have to do a little work to duplicate that item. With my layer selected, I will press the shortcut to reveal the paint strokes and that's two Ps in quick succession. Each stroke I've painted appears in the Timeline. When I select Clone stroke 4, I can see in the Layer…
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