[Troye Bolin]

Thanks John, I had viewed that tutorial earlier in my planning stage for this effect and just didn’t see how relevant it is. I took your advice and re-reviewed it and I see how much it will get me to my spiraling plane effect.

I am wondering if there is a way to pin the emitter to an object, or does After Effects require me to keyframe each movement? The Puppet Tool would be nice if this was more static, but I think I need something more dynamic to pin the emitter to the wing tip throughout the space and time in the sequence. Would this be done by assigning Parent/Child relationships? This is something barely familiar to me but I would learn it or anything else recommended to achieve this pinning solution.

I assume After Effects has this pinning capability and I just have not found the tutorial. Maybe I am wrong. It would be like users thinking there was a Rotobrush function back when AE only provided Rotoscoping.