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Child-parent layers

Child-parent layers

From the course: After Effects: Compositing Animation from Animate CC

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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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