Kalleheikki Kannisto
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“Loop: The Loop control is now remembered for each keyboard shortcut. Ping-Pong loop mode is no longer available.”
from
https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2015/06/previews-in-after-effects-cc-2015-13-5.html
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“sure target 2 it works for me with AE cc 2014”
Good to know. Wanted to install it some time back but got discouraged by comments about it not working, sounds like I should give it a try with CC14.
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I don’t see any problem there, only an antialiased soft edge from the shape not being aligned to pixel edges.
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Worth consideration:
https://aescripts.com/typemonkey/
(I’ve been led to believe Sure Target doesn’t work with recent versions of AE. At least the comments in the Sure Target 2 page say so.)
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The only similar thing I’ve found are these scripts which claim to attach a mask point to a null or vice versa:
https://www.crgreen.com/aescripts/ie/
No idea if they work. Or if they work for anything above AE CS 3.
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Puppet pin tool is a pretty good option for many cases.
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Please provide a screenshot like this no we can narrow down the possible problem:
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If the firecrackers have a black background as well, you can use Add mode, that works better. For the lighting, a fairly simple solution would be to use a gradient radial ramp from white to mid grey in Overlay mode, at those points where the firecrackers light up, it would kind of give the appearance of lighting up the person. Overlay lightens up everything in a fairly natural fashion leaving full blacks black. (Note: don’t make the edges of the overlay ramp black, otherwise they will darken things in Overlay mode. Mid grey won’t change the appearance of anything outside the radius of the radial ramp)
To make things easier, you will want to animate a bunch of the fire crackers with their respective glows, then duplicate that around several times. That would obviate having to animate the glow separately each time.
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My guess:
The images were cut into pieces in Photoshop, limbs separated out onto their own layers, missing pieces filled in, then brought back into AE as a Comp (cropped layers). Anchor points were placed in rotation points (shoulders, hips) and parented to torso and the rest (elbow, wrist, knee, ankle etc. joints) animated with puppet pin tools. Puppet pins need nulls parented to all parents up to torso.
That’s what it looks like.
Or you could cut the characters into smaller pieces (at elbows, wrists, knees and ankles) and do the rigging with DUIK. Doesn’t look like this was done that way, but it would be close to the same result.
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