From the course: RubberHose Animation with After Effects
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Add Starch pins - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: RubberHose Animation with After Effects
Add Starch pins
- [Instructor] Now one thing that can happen when you're animating the ankles is you can get some weird kind of bends in the legs. So I'm going to show you how we can use the Starch mode to fix that so that we're getting a more realistic bend. So I'm just going to bend that one up there. So to control the way that the leg bends, we're going to use Starch Pins. And you can access them up here if you click and hold on the Puppet Pin Tool, you can select Puppet Starch Tool. And we're going to undo that bend. Going to select our left leg. Now I'm going to select the Puppet so I can see where my points are. And then I'm just going to add a couple of points, and as I hover over, you'll notice it shows me a mesh so I can decide where to put my pins. Now I'm going to start by just putting one here. And I'll also put one here. So I'm going to go back to the selection tool. And if we have a look at that now, if I select my ankle, and just bend it up, you'll see that it is a lot better. So it's…
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