From the course: After Effects Duik: Rigging & Animation Tools
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Adding puppet pins to a morph character
From the course: After Effects Duik: Rigging & Animation Tools
Adding puppet pins to a morph character
- I'm in O-5-O-1, adding puppet pins to character. Now, rigging a character using puppet pins works a little bit differently than rigging by parenting individual body segments. I have a character design here that was created in Adobe Illustrator. It's made up of very few layers. A body pre-comp which contains its facial features, hair, the body, et cetera. I have a layer for each arm, and a layer for each leg. So, five layers altogether. Now, to rig this character so it can bend its arms and walk and just dance like nobody's watching, I need to start by adding puppet pins to the different body parts, which will allow us to bend, distort, and morph each layer. So first, I'm gonna go up to the puppet pin tool up here, I'll select it. I'm gonna go ahead and select the left arm, and I'm gonna command-plus to just zoom in a little bit. And let's take a look, turning on and off the eyeball to make sure I'm referencing the correct arm. And now, I need to create puppet pins. So, I'm gonna go…
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