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Cut out animation
Hello,
I am working on cut out animation in After Effects, and in one scene for example – my character is made up of 6 parts (2 legs, each composed of UPPER_LEG, LOWER_LEG, FOOT ).
All these layers are parented, and I set their joints using the pan behind tool.
When I am working on my animation, I need to create for each point in time keyframes for all these layers, for the position, rotation and opacity attributes.
My question is – is there a quick way – with one button for instance – to set keyframes for numerous layers and numerous attributes? That would simplify my work a lot.And if anyone knows of good plugins that can aid my cutout animation in other ways, I appreciate if he can tell me about them.
Thank you,
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4 Replies
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I don’t know of any keyboard shortcut that would help you other that setting initial keyframes for properties (alt+P adds position, alt+r adds rotation).
I thought that Dan Ebberts terrific IK script might help, you can find it at the bottom of this page:
https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/toc.html
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the link you posted doesn’t seem to work.
I really don’t know anything about scripts, but if there isn’t a keyboard shortcut, or a plugin for this , would it perhaps be possible to create a set of keyframes in a previously defined list (for example, Layer1:Rotation,Opacity,Position. Layer2: Opacity. and so on ) using a script ?
Thanks for your reply,
Y.
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For some reason the link added 2
characters.Just go to https://www.motionscript.com
I’m not aware of any method to read a list of multiple properties and apply them. Expressions and scripts may be your only hope.
Anyone else??
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Thanks, I’ll try it with the scripting way.
Y.
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