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Hey everyone, I’m doing a short piece where I wanted everyone to have strings (like a puppet) going up from their limbs to the sky. Any ideas on how this could be acheived through After Effects? I was thinking it might need to be made through a 3D program but I was curious what kind of suggestions you had.
Thanks in advance
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track hands and feet and link them to a mask and use trapcode stroke?
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track hands and feet and link them to a mask and use trapcode stroke?”You can’t apply tracking data to individual vertices. You might be able to apply tracking data to the beginning point of a a Beam effect. (render > beam).
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the beam would be easier. you’re correct too — you’d need to rototrack the mask point.
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there was a thread a while ago about a script that would attach verticies to tracking points. I tried it and it works quite well. You might try that + stroke. heres the thread..
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=866624
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