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Animate with the Puppet tool

Animate with the Puppet tool - After Effects Tutorial

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Animate with the Puppet tool

- [Instructor] Let's kick off this lesson with an example. (samba music) The Puppet debuted in After Effects over a decade ago, and now, it has its first major update. It's now easier to get a better result with more precise control using the new Advanced mode of the same tool. The capabilities of the tool set go significantly beyond the original. What's more, it runs as a new mode along side the original one. So, if you're worried about backward compatibility, you can still switch to the classic version. In order to create my dancing star animation, I worked with a shape layer, and I'm going to show you how to set that up. I did want to point out that you could also use the original vector artwork from this flag. The only reason I didn't do that is that I had to scale that little teeny star up to about 6,500% in order to work with it. So I thought that a shape layer would be a little bit less unwieldy. So, this is my animation that was actually done by hand, matching a video…

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