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Version master properties

Version master properties - After Effects Tutorial

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Version master properties

- [Instructor] The essential graphics panel and master properties offer animatives a way to consolidate controls for our character. They also allow us to create property variations when used in pre comps. Let's see how this can benefit our workflow. In this example, I have my hand rig, I'll go through and select my hand control, and then come up here to window and show Effect Controls. On this layer, I've created two expression controls that are responsible for opening and closing his hand, as well as rotating his wrist. Now, what I'd like to do is also add a control to be able to change out my sleeve color . So I'll go down here to my sleeve. And in my effects and presets, I'm going to look for the color correction family of effects, and just go down here to change color. Let's click and drag this to our sleeve layer. Now inside of my effect, I'll select on the eyedropper for color to change and just point to the…

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