From the course: After Effects: Compositing Animation from Animate CC
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Child-parent layers
From the course: After Effects: Compositing Animation from Animate CC
Child-parent layers
- A very useful technique in after effects, is the ability to child-parent layers. And what this means is that you can attach one layer to another layer, and it will inherit all the properties of the parent layer. So, let me show you what this looks like, and why it might save you some time. So in this part, we've got our three flying saucers, and actually I think I will just, I think we have all the effects off, and just want to make sure we're not loading this up with a lot of render-heavy stuff. So the three flying saucers zip across the screen. And what I want to do is to add a fourth. So, what if I don't want to bother adding all these extra animation details? So let's make a new layer. I'm gonna take this, actually what I'll do, I'll go into the project panel, go into our comps, and I will, or into the swf folder, rather. Find the saucer. Drag it down here. And the pivot's in the wrong place, so I hit Y to re-pivot. I'm going to just hit S to scale it down. It's gonna be pretty…
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Nesting compositions5m 45s
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Adjusting colors and tone5m 14s
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Lightning7m 18s
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Creating masks and feathered edges5m 48s
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Fractal fog and clouds8m 30s
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Motion and depth blur5m 9s
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Depth/Blur maps5m 35s
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Child-parent layers3m 53s
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Distort tool10m 7s
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Camera wiggle3m 42s
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Applying Glow5m 15s
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Applying film grain4m 8s
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