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    2D animation expression problem

    Posted by Nikolay Kirkov on September 21, 2013 at 1:19 pm

    I want to use puppet tool to move the head, but when i make the bone of the head the ear doesnt follow her. What expression I should use to fix this problem with these two bones. Because when I parrent the positions of the bones, all gets pretty messy.Like this:

    Roland R. kahlenberg replied 12 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Roland R. kahlenberg

    September 23, 2013 at 8:54 am

    Parenting only works with Transform properties (except Opacity). What you can do is to create Expressions to link each Puppet Pin to its own Null. Then Parent the Nulls according to your needs.

    You may also want to visit aescripts.com to look for Puppet Pin scripts.

    HTH
    RoRK

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