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Useful effects for rigging

Useful effects for rigging - After Effects Tutorial

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Useful effects for rigging

- [Narrator] So far in this chapter we've examined a few ways that we can start to rig our characters including using the puppet tool, setting up expressions and parenting. In this movie, we'll look at some additional tools that can be useful during the rigging process. In this example I have my rabbit and you can see that if I zoom in, we have two layers here for his ears that are calling out to be animated. We just want to have these guys flapping the wind. So I'll solo this top ear and while we can certainly use puppet tools to animate and bend this ear, we can alternatively use an effect called CC bended that allows for simple bend deformations. With my ear selected, I'll come over here to effect and go down to distort and CC bend it we can add this to our effects. Right off the bat we have some unwanted cropping going on, and this is due to the start and end point inside the effect not encompassing the…

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