From the course: After Effects: Character Animation Techniques
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Use bend pins and advanced pins - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects: Character Animation Techniques
Use bend pins and advanced pins
- [Instructor] Now we're going to improve this. The knees and the feet are not really working how I want them. So what we're going to do is have a look So let's have a look at the foot. Okay, you'll notice that if I open it, the pin type at the moment is position. I can change that. For example, if I choose bend and then preview it, you'll notice now I have a manual bend value. So instead of it automatically being worked out, Now I don't really want that at the moment. So we'll have a look at that later, and advanced gives us position, scale, and rotation, and if we do that for the right foot as well. because it locks those feet to the floor, and if I want to rotate them, I can just tweak those into position if I want them flat on the floor there. Now I'm going to do the same for the knees. So I'm going to change the knee pin type to advanced, and that just shifts that animation a little bit. So I'm then going to rotate the knee the way I want it and same here. So we'll change it to…
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