• Adobe After Effects

  Puppet Tool Leaves Strange Outline, Distortion

  Posted by Ashley Vonclausburg on March 29, 2013 at 7:45 pm

  Hi,

  So this is only my second time doing anything with AfterEffects and I’m having an issue with the puppet tool. I have the letter H move onto the screen by key framing it’s position. It reaches the middle of the screen and then stretches upward using the puppet tool. The issue is that once I started using the puppet tool, there is a weird outline of the H left on the screen. As I move the H around the area where the puppet tool was put into effect the distortion of the outline becomes more apparent.

  https://www.gmfus.org/media/photos/ScreenShot2013-03-29at3.35.25PM.png

  Per one suggestion on a message board, I tried upping the expansion setting for the mesh, but that doesn’t seem to have any affect. The H was created in AfterEffects but is over top of a background created in Photoshop.

  Any and all thoughts would be greatly appreciated!!

  Thank you,

  Ashley

  Tudor “ted” jelescu replied 13 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  March 29, 2013 at 8:36 pm

  Try expanding the mesh. Here’s a useful link:

  https://forums.adobe.com/thread/502534

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist

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