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pin tool puppet effect…
i know this question covers more than one topic, but could someone give me some insight into using the new pin tool on a puppet character in order to make it move like a STRING PUPPET/ Marrionette?
Im fine with moving the pins around, but i find it very hard to create a flowing motion with easing on ever motion to make it look like its attached to a string…
sorry bout the complications…
david.
thanx for the help.
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To experience the power of the tool, create a mock up of a “puppet-like” object in Photoshop, with the head, each arm, torso and each leg or other body parts on its own unique layer. Import into AE as the size of the comp; set up a small size and short duration composition to control for extended rendering time. Open the comp. Next, play with the pin tool to animate the body parts. What’s unique about this tool versus the setting key frames with the position attribute, for ex., is that when you animate one part of the object using the puppet tool, the other parts of the object move in proportion to the part that is moving…there’s a quick tutorial demo of the puppet tool on the DVD that is shipped with AE 8.
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thanx for the help.
do you think its wiser to seperate all the body parts into layers rather than hav all of them on one layer??
if i seperate the body parts, should i parent everything to the torso maybe?
dave
thanx for the help.
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David, please send your email and I’ll sent you my mock up puppet Photoshop file along with the AE project file. You can see what I did to learn the tool. . .Summary, brought in layered PSD as a comp.; pre-comp’d the comp and animated the puppet using the puppet tool without parenting anything.
Jeanne
Tramble@aol.com
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