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Tweak Puppet tool animations

Tweak Puppet tool animations - After Effects Tutorial

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Tweak Puppet tool animations

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- [Narrator] I thought I'd share some of the ways that I've tweaked this project, just to prove it. Let's play the animation so you can have a look at it, you'll notice that I've added a little bit more character to it and the movement, and I've done this in various ways. If we move down to the timeline here and focus on that for a second; If I hit the accent key, you can see all the keyframes and you can see there's various eased keyframes, held key frames, also auto bezier keyframes to change the type of movement. And it's hard to see by looking at the key frames what's been done so I usually find that looking at the graph editor is a better way. If we have a look at the scale value of the shoulder, you can see I've added a little bit of scale in there so it scales up and down, and I've also put a little bit of rotation in there so there's the scale in the rotation of the shoulders. You've noticed I made the transitions quite soft, as well. So rather than having harsh linearity…

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