From the course: Your First After Effects Project
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Animating layers using parenting
From the course: Your First After Effects Project
Animating layers using parenting
- So this is what we have so far, which looks very interesting. But, I think that we can make it even better using some simple parenting animation inside After Effects. And by that, I mean, we can marry couple of layers to one set of keyframes, so everything is going to animate together. Alright, so I'll post the playback go back to the beginning, and I want to make sure that the Parent & Link column is visible. So if you can't see it on your screen, either right click on this little gray bar and choose it from the columns, or you can also go to the composition options, and from here, you can also display which columns you like to work with. In my case, since I see a check mark near the word Parent & Link, I'm not going to select anything, I'm just going to press Escape to hide this menu. So this is going to help us to select a couple of layers in this case, layer number one, I'm going to hold down Shift, and click on layer…
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