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The Puppet tool

The Puppet tool - After Effects Tutorial

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The Puppet tool

- After Effects offers animators the ability to manipulate characters through its puppet tools. Much like controlling a marionette with strings, the Puppet tool lets users define pins that can move, hold and rotate the portions of a given layer. The End effect is controlled warping of a layer that is a very powerful tool in the animator's toolset, I've got two characters here in my scene that's depicting a robbery in progress, you can see that we've got this thief trying to steal the ideas from another guy. And if we preview this, what you're looking at are the puppet tools in action. I've got two layers here, each with the puppet effect applied to it and a handful of keyframes. Let's stop this and dive into one of the characters, you can see that this guy is created with just one layer. Now it didn't break this character out into multiple components, since I can rely on the puppet tools to move some parts for me, so how…

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