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Perfect leg animation with the Graph Editor

Perfect leg animation with the Graph Editor - After Effects Tutorial

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Perfect leg animation with the Graph Editor

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- [Instructor] So we've got our legs animating, but it's not perfect, so what we want to do is tweak the animation just to get it right. Now I've created this movement here on the leg mover layer using motion sketch, so as I said, it's a little bit rough. So what we're going to do is select that position value by clicking on the word "position," and then go to our graph editor. And you can see we've got really nice graph, but way too many key frames. So to smooth that out, we're going to click on the word "position," to make sure all of the key frames are selected, and then we're going to go up to the smoother. If you can't see the smoother, you can access it in the Window menu. And we're going to give it a tolerance of about 10, and then we're going to click Apply to the spatial path. And you'll see that that removes some of the unnecessary key frames. That's going to make it easier for us to make adjustments to it. I only really want to use the section between here and here, say, so…

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