From the course: After Effects: Character Animation Techniques
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Rig with Master Properties - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects: Character Animation Techniques
Rig with Master Properties
- [Narrator] In the previous movie we looked at how to set up a rig using these little handles to control the various different body parts. And you'll see that now, if I move the hip the knee follows. If I move the knee, the ankle follows. And if I move the ankle, it moves independently. So we can set up a really nice style of animation. Now, also, we've got rotation values in there, as well, so we can rotate the hip we can rotate the knee, and we can rotate the ankle. Now, I really want to be able to control this in the composition that I'm going to put it in and if we just click here, and go to Rigging Start you'll see that here are my legs. So, I've placed two copies of the legs in here. Now, I want to be able to control them using controls in this composition not having to go into the nest of comps. So, I'm going to achieve that by using master properties. So, let's go back into our comp. So, I'm going to open up my Essential Graphics panel. Okay, and in here, you'll see I've…
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