Join Owen Lowery for an in-depth discussion in this video, Adding puppet pins to a morph character, part of After Effects Duik: Rigging & Animation Tools. After Effects CC Puppet Pin Tool. The Puppet Pin Tool lets you create bone-like structures for characters and change the shape of compositions, images.

Elementos Del Estilo Tipografico Robert Bringhurst Pdf Viewer here. NOTE This article is adapted from. Copyright 2008. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. And Adobe Press. In this exercise, you'll learn how to do the following: • Place Deform pins by using the Puppet Pin tool.

• Define areas of overlap by using the Puppet Overlap tool. • Stiffen part of an image by using the Puppet Starch tool.

• Animate the position of Deform pins. • Smooth motion in an animation. • Record animation by using the Puppet Sketch tool. The Puppet tools in After Effects let you quickly add natural motion to raster images and vector graphics. Three tools create 'pins' to define the point of deformation, areas of overlap, and areas that should remain more rigid.

An additional tool, Puppet Sketch, lets you record animation in real time. In this exercise, you'll use the Puppet tools to animate a character slipping on a banana peel. Getting Started the following files to the AECS3_CIB/Lessons/Lesson08 folder on your hard disk (or copy them from the DVD): • In the Assets folder: backdrop.psd, banana.psd, man.psd • In the Sample_Movie folder: Lesson08.mov Follow these steps to review the files: • Open and play the Lesson08.mov file to see what you'll create in this exercise. • When you're done, quit the QuickTime player. You can delete this sample movie from your hard disk if you have limited storage space. Setting Up the Project When you begin this exercise, restore the default application settings for After Effects.

• Press Ctrl-Alt-Shift (Windows) or Command-Option-Shift (Mac OS) while starting After Effects. When asked whether you want to delete your preferences file, click OK. After Effects opens to display a blank, untitled project. • Choose File >Save As or press Ctrl-Shift-S (Mac OS: Command-Shift-S). • In the Save As dialog box, navigate to the following folder: AECS3_CIB/Lessons/Lesson08/Finished_Project • Name the project Lesson08_Finished.aep, and then click Save.

Importing Footage This exercise uses three Photoshop files to create the scene. You'll import them now. • Choose File >Import >File. • Navigate to the AECS3_CIB/Lessons/Lesson08/Assets folder. Shift-click to select the backdrop.psd, banana.psd, and man.psd files, and then click Open. The footage items appear in the Project panel. • Click the Create a New Folder button at the bottom of the Project panel.