Alright, I finished a course on after effects and I feel like I get enough to figure it out on my own. I'm just getting stuck with copying the positions of the pins to the corresponding nulls. The shape was created in illustrator and was imported into the comp as an ai file.
The problem is that the bounding box of the shape is not the size of the canvas and the puppet pin position is expressed in the coordinates of this box and not the canvas. So when I copy the position to the null which is connected to the canvas the position is way off.
I can replicate the position manually, but I would like to improve my work-flow all the same, so nowing how to get around it would be great.
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Here are some things to know about using the Puppet tool. The first step to using the Puppet tool After Effects is to place the pins. Then, you must click on each point of the image you want to add movement to. Every time you click on a part of your image, a pin will be set down. After placing the pins, you can then go to the timeline screen and adjust the movements and animations. Another part of the Puppet tool gives you the ability to perform an overlap. The overlap feature allows portions of your animated image to hide behind the figure, mirroring natural movement.
Once you click on this, your image will be mapped with a series of mesh lines and angles. You must click on the portions of your image that should always stay front and center during movement instead of being naturally hidden.
The Advanced puppet engine interprets the Starch pins as Position pins. You can convert Starch pins into Position pins with the Pin Type property. Mesh Rotation Refinement , specifies the maximum amount any position or starch pin rotates to minimize deformation. Higher the value, higher is the amount of rotation flexible deformation , and lower the value, lower is the amount of rotation stiff deformation.
You can use the Puppet Engine control to choose between the Advanced puppet engine and the Legacy puppet engine.
To choose, in the Timeline panel, click the drop-down menu next to Puppet engine , and select the engine. You can switch between the two engines but After Effects recommends that you avoid switching after you place or animate pins for the following reasons:.
The Advanced Puppet Tool offers the following types of pins to animate your puppets. To apply these pins, select the pin type in the Puppet Tool menu in the toolbar. When you select bend pins or advanced pins in the Puppet Tool panel, it displays a rotation and scale control - larger, outer circle with a single square handle. Hold the Shift key while you drag to constrain rotation to 15 degree increments.
Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy. Buy now. User Guide Cancel. Basics of Legacy Puppet tool. Each Puppet tool is used to place and modify a specific type of pin:. Use this tool to place and move Deform pins. To show the mesh, select Show in the Tools panel. Online resources for the Puppet tools. Manually animate an image with the Puppet tools. Select the layer that contains the image to animate. Using the Puppet Pin tool , do one of the following in the Composition panel or the Layer panel:.
A Deform pin is placed where you clicked to create the mesh. Click in one or more places within the outline to add more Deform pins.
Go to another time in the composition, and move the position of one or more of the Deform pins by dragging them in the Composition or Layer panel with the Puppet Pin tool. Repeat this step until you have completed your animation. Record animation by sketching motion with the Puppet Pin tool. If your composition contains audio, you can sketch motion in time with the audio. Select one or more Deform pins. Go to the time at which to begin recording motion. How the Puppet effect creates outlines.
Work with Puppet pins and the distortion mesh. To show the mesh for the Puppet effect, select Show in the options section of the Tools panel. To select or move a pin, click or drag it with the Move tool. To activate the Move tool, place the pointer on a pin while either the Selection tool or the corresponding Puppet tool is active.
To select multiple pins, Shift-click them, or use the marquee-selection tool to drag a marquee-selection box around them. To activate the marquee-selection tool, place the pointer for a Puppet tool outside all meshes and outlines or hold the Alt Windows or Option Mac OS key. To delete selected pins, press the Delete key. If the pin has multiple keyframes, and only the keyframe at the current time is selected, pressing Delete deletes only that keyframe; pressing Delete again deletes the pin.
To reset Deform pins to their original locations at the current time, click Reset for the Puppet effect in the Timeline panel or Effect Controls panel. To remove all pins and meshes from an instance of the Puppet effect, click Reset again. To increase or decrease the number of triangles used in a mesh, modify the Triangle value in the options section of the Tools panel or in the Timeline panel. Modifying the Triangle value sets the value for a selected mesh or, if no mesh is selected, sets the value for meshes created later.
To expand the mesh beyond the original outline, increase the Expansion property in the options section of the Tools panel or in the Timeline panel. Modifying the Expansion property sets the value for a selected mesh or, if no mesh is selected, sets the value for meshes created later. Expanding the mesh is useful for encompassing a stroke. To duplicate an object using Puppet Pin tool, click within the original outline.
Clicking within the original outline creates a new mesh, with its own copy of the pixels from within the original outline. You can also duplicate a Mesh group in the Timeline panel to achieve the same result, which is sometimes easier than clicking within the original outline without clicking the mesh to create a pin. Puppet Overlap controls.
You apply Puppet Overlap pins to the original outline, not to the deformed image. Each Overlap pin has the following properties:. In Front.
Puppet Starch controls. You apply Puppet Starch pins to the original outline, not to the deformed image. Each Starch pin has the following properties:. Basics of Advanced Puppet Tool. At the core, the advanced puppet engine use similar concept as the legacy puppet engine, the differences being: New pin behaviors and pin types Smoother and customizable deformations Enhanced density.
Difference between Legacy puppet engine and Advanced puppet engine. Legacy puppet engine. Advanced puppet engine. You can't convert Starch pins into any other form of pins. No option of Mesh Rotation Refinement. Improvements to Advanced Puppet Tool. You can switch between the two engines but After Effects recommends that you avoid switching after you place or animate pins for the following reasons: As the two engines interpret pins differently, switching could change the deformation.
Starch pins are different in Advanced puppet engine and so the Legacy puppet engine treats advanced starch pins, as normal position pins, and the Advanced puppet engine ignores legacy starch pins.
Types of pins in the Advanced Puppet Tool. Puppet Position Pin Tool : The pins you place with this tool can only control the position of the pin. These pins display as yellow circles in the UI. Advanced Pins : Enables you to control the position, scale, and rotation of the pin. This allows significant control over how the Puppet effect mesh deforms around that pin. The mesh can create noticeable shearing if you do not animate all three properties.
For example, you can use an advanced pin to animate the head of a character to move to the side and look downwards. However, if you do not animate the rotation manually, the head continues to point in the same direction and create a stretched appearance.
These pins display as blue-green circles in the UI. Bend Pins : These pins automatically calculate their location from the surrounding pins, similar to starch pins, while allowing you to control of the scale and rotation of the pin.
You can use the bend pins to create the appearance of the chest of the character breathing, or of a wagging tail.
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