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Rig the Puppet tool

Rig the Puppet tool - After Effects Tutorial

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Rig the Puppet tool

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- [Instructor] Rig adjusters are great but they're a bit clunky if you want to control your character. where we've got a layer that we use to control the movement of the body part. That layer is almost like a handle. You can just pick it up and move it and the body part will move to wherever that layer is. And you'll see that this is from a comp called handle comp, which is just a very simple comp with a layer with a couple of masks on it. What I've done here, is I've linked this one, which is called F knee, to the position property of this puppet pin, okay, so that when I move this, the puppet pin value adjusts. Now that's great, but if I then open up my hip controller and I try moving that around, this one should also move when that one moves. Or, as I move the ankle, the toe should move but it's obviously not. So what I want to do is have some sort of hierarchy If I was to do that just using regular parenting. because all of the values pick up each other's values and we lose the…

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