Trashy Artifacts with Puppet Tool ?

[Jon Bagge]

Select the puppet pin effect, enable the puppet pin tool and turn on the mesh. The mesh needs to encompass the whole picture or strange things will happen on the edges. You can expand the size of the mesh by adjusting the ‘expansion’ parameter right next to the ‘show mesh’ tick button. You want it as small as possible yet covering the whole image.

You can also increase the number of triangles in your mesh to reduce artifacting. Bear in mind this will significantly increase rendering times.

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[Justin Vi]

Thanks man ! 🙂 You are awesome !:)) it worked perfectly, i dont know how much time i spent figuring out this phenomena. Now everything works perfectly!

Thanks again so much:)!!

Justin

[Jon Bagge]

Thanks man ! 🙂 You are awesome !:)) it worked perfectly, i dont know how much time i spent figuring out this phenomena. Now everything works perfectly!

No problem. I’ve been working with the puppet tool alot the past few months, so I’m getting to learn it’s habits, good and bad!

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Jon Bagge – Editor – London, UK
Avid – FCP – After Effects

[Michael Wentworth-bell]

A very big thanks for sharing this tip, John Bagge! I found this thread after experiencing the same problem with photoshop.

I had previously just thought these trashy artifacts / edge problems were just a side-effect of using the puppet tool.

Hope this thread is found easily by others with the same issue.