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Create RubberRig legs

Create RubberRig legs - After Effects Tutorial

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Create RubberRig legs

- [Instructor] So, we've looked at how you can create a RubberHose arm or a RubberHose limb just using simple shape layers. You can also create a rig from existing layers. So, in this example here, you'll see that I've got this left leg layer and the left boot layer and what I want to do is create a little animation of that. I could use just parenting with these layers but the nice thing about RubberHose is as well as parenting and linking the legs together, it puts some flexibility in there as well, so it creates a little bit more realism than just using layers alone. We're in Leg Start and what we're going to do is first of all create our left leg, so we're going to go up to our RubberHose Panel and type in Left Leg and then for the leg, we're going to choose Hip and Ankle. Now, there's a couple of things we need to do to prepare this, so we're going to select the selection tool, select the left leg and what we need to do is to match up the edges here inside the center of our comp…

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