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  • “Hinged and Pinned on Anchor Points” (How to?)

    Posted by Todd Tennant on April 11, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    Hello again.
    I’ll try to make this AE question as direct and to-the-point as possible:

    Can anyone please instruct me, step-by-step, how to “hinge and pin illustration parts together
    on anchor points, parented to each other” so that I can then import it into AE to animate it?

    I’ve already got a “subject” and have divided it’s parts that I’d like to see move asunder in a (lo-res) .psd file, and will be glad to e-mail it to anyone who asks (since I don’t see any way to attach it here).

    Once this is done, I already have an AE tut that can take it from there.
    You’ve all been great with helping me before, and any additional help
    with this subject will be muchly appreciated.

    thanks,
    Todd

    Todd Tennant replied 17 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Darby Edelen

    April 13, 2009 at 4:28 am

    You can move the anchor point of a layer without affecting it’s relative position by using the pan behind tool (Y), clicking on the anchor point and dragging it.

    The anchor point will be what the layer rotates around and where the layer scales from.

    Darby Edelen

  • Todd Tennant

    April 21, 2009 at 8:04 am

    Thank you.
    I’ll try that.

    T

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