From the course: After Effects: Character Animation Techniques
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Group body parts with nested comps - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects: Character Animation Techniques
Group body parts with nested comps
- [Presenter] So I've got a nice working hierarchy for my body parts in here but you'll notice that when I rotate the body, the rest of the head doesn't follow. The hair and all the other parts of the head don't follow. Now, I could use parenting to link these together but it kind of gets a little bit messy. There's an awful lot of layers in here to animate. So what I'm going to do instead is just nest these together. Now obviously I could nest them by selecting them up here and dragging them in as a comp but if I've already got them inside the comp I'd create the nest by pre-composing. Which is like nesting backwards. So basically I'm going to select all the things that I want to be inside one layer called the head. And I'm going to go to the layer, pre-compose. And this will create a head group. Which has all of those layers in it. So we'll call that Head Group, okay and move all the attributes into the new composition and we're going to click OK and as I do you'll notice two things…
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