From the course: After Effects: Character Animation Techniques
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Link body parts with parenting - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects: Character Animation Techniques
Link body parts with parenting
- [Instructor] So we've set up the anchor points, but you'll notice that if I select the body and rotate it that the head So this is where I have to use a parenting structure. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to ask the front arm to follow the body, and do that just by dragging the pick whip from the front arm to the body. We'll do the same, but with the front leg that will be attached to the body. Back leg will be attached to the body, and the head will too. You could also choose the parent from this menu here, so we're basically in this one attaching everything to the body. This is a really simple parenting structure. So you'll see now that, if I rotate the body, it moves back and forwards like this. Now, if I don't want the legs to move, I can just take the parenting off those, so let's just select those and choose none, and now, when I rotate the body, only the body moves, okay. And the head we can rotate independently as well, so the head can move back and forth. The arms can…
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