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Set up Master Properties

Set up Master Properties - After Effects Tutorial

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Set up Master Properties

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- [Instructor] So here we have our little character ready to animate. Now I could go into the properties, as I do with other layers, and just animate the body parts individually but it becomes quite a messy process to do that. So I'm going to show you how we can use the master properties to create a simplified rig for our character. So the properties I want to animate are rotation, you'll see there I'm going to rotate the arms, I'm going to rotate the legs, I'll also rotate the head and the body. So this is a fairly simple animation, it's just using basic rotation. So in order to set up master properties, I'm going to go to the window menu and open up my essential graphics panel and in here I'm going to select the composition I want to create my controls for. And then it's really easy, it's just a case of dragging the controls into the essential graphics panel. So, I want the rotation of the front arm, so I'm going to drag that in and I'm going to call that arm. And then I want the…

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