With my animation class being online and asynchronous I have been left to figure things out on my own basically and an issue I worked 40 minutes on was fixed after watching not even a full minute of your video so thank you from a very stressed student!!!
Honestly when I see pros messing up like that, makes me feel like "ok, so it happens even to the best" and a lot of the pressure comes off of my shoulders
Great tutorial! Starting at 10:33 you have copy and pasted multiple pre-compositions to loop it. If you are not aware of it, look into using the "loop out" expression with time-remapping on one layer. It lets you indefinitely loop a pre-composition or any other key frames without having to copy and paste them! saves a tone of time and cleans up the composition.
An incredibly charming and incredibly useful tutorial! I loved that you went over options that weren't used in this example as well, just a fantastic job all around.
Technically that’s a septapus. Octo = 8. But more than that it’s a damned fine tutorial and an excellent introduction to the updated puppet pin functionality. Thank you, and keep up the great work. You always do a stellar job!
Fantastic tutorial! Quick question - you mention at 9:51 that if you were animating the octopus for real, you'd put each limb on a separate layer. Would you do this by separating the limbs into individual layers in Illustrator first, and then importing the .ai file into After Effects as a composition? Or would you go about it another way?
You missed one of the most powerful features of using this tool with a multiple-layer character. If one of the layers is made a parent of the others, you can create pins on the parent which will control transformations of the others. After parenting, move the anchor point of a child layer to match the pin on the parent, enable position keyframes and use the pickwhip to tie the position to that particular puppet pin. Or you can just write out the expression. If layers are joined this way you never have to worry about the gaps between layers during big position jumps. This technique saves a huge amount of time on even relatively simple rigs.
hey man, can you do a video about rigging and lip syncing for animations? there are plenty of videos out there for the topics i mentioned but i believe you'd do a better job.
When I will use the Puppet PIN ( in AE 2019)or pin tool, it speaks q gave a drawing error nn specified...what can I do? I have tried to move and activate the GPU but it seems that this option is forbidden, anyone help me?
I only struggle with one thing: every time I use puppet pin tool to animate something (sometimes it's an AI file and sometimes just a shape layer in AE) there are weird lines. As if its shape has been cut ... and the problem is not low quality. Can you please help me with this?
I have a small question. If i want to only animate simple things like text boxes, warp a box to a particular shape, animate self drawing borders, make a flower grow out kinda, like we see in motion graphics explainer videos. But i dont need in depth stuff like character creation & animation. Just the ability to bend photos to match a curve etc and those kind of things for corporate videos and such. Is it better to use AE or ANIMATE CC for my needs ?
Question~ Sometimes when I've used the puppet tool, it will just stop working and I don't know why. My keyframes will still be on the timeline but my puppet points won't highlight/disappear?? Do you know why? I can't seem to find an answer, so I end up having to start from scratch again
If you change or update your graphics in Illustrator, it will mess with the animation. The puppet tool also doesn't like rasterizing to be turned on, so rather keep your source graphics large and scale down in AE to keep them sharp. A pretty good rule with the puppet tool is to use it last in any animation. If you need to change properties of the graphics after you've animated, the chances of it messing with your animation are quite high.
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your 11-min video is much clearer and more understandable than my teacher's 2-hour lesson :)) Don't know why I go to school
Happy to help!
With my animation class being online and asynchronous I have been left to figure things out on my own basically and an issue I worked 40 minutes on was fixed after watching not even a full minute of your video so thank you from a very stressed student!!!
Happy to help! Keep your chin up :)
same lol and how am here again deadline soon 😭😭😭😭
heres some simple help for mid users of AE. puppet tool collapse usages:
5:14 - starch tool
6:53 - bend pin tool
7:27 - puppet pin advance tool
8:00 - puppet pin overlap tool
Thank you so much!!! This is soo helpful. and I love it when you say "excuse me" when you grab the wrong thing it makes me laugh!
You are so welcome!
I love a teacher with good manners
Honestly when I see pros messing up like that, makes me feel like "ok, so it happens even to the best" and a lot of the pressure comes off of my shoulders
You'd make a great teacher. Very clear and thorough, Thankyou!
Thank you so much!
Your video is still going strong 3 years later! This is saving my life for a walk cycle I have to do! Thanks!
Great tutorial! Starting at 10:33 you have copy and pasted multiple pre-compositions to loop it. If you are not aware of it, look into using the "loop out" expression with time-remapping on one layer. It lets you indefinitely loop a pre-composition or any other key frames without having to copy and paste them! saves a tone of time and cleans up the composition.
Oh my god your actually a life saver!! I couldn’t figure out how to make it so smooth!! This helped me so much!! Thank you!!!
Happy to help!
An incredibly charming and incredibly useful tutorial! I loved that you went over options that weren't used in this example as well, just a fantastic job all around.
Super clear and straight-forward with easy to understand examples. Thank you so much for your tutorial!
A thank you isn’t enough but it’s all i have, thank you so much
It's plenty!
So helpful, hope I'll have your level some day !
Keep going !
Thanks so much! So THAT's how people do those animations that I've always thought were beyond my skill level! :-)
First thing in my mind: WAIT, I don't need DUIK to start playing around with puppet tool?! :D
Thank you so much for the tutorial!
You sound so much like the guy from that meditation app. Great voice :)
I get this all the time haha.
Simple and easy. All that I needed. Thank you!
You're welcome!
Technically that’s a septapus. Octo = 8. But more than that it’s a damned fine tutorial and an excellent introduction to the updated puppet pin functionality. Thank you, and keep up the great work. You always do a stellar job!
Best pppppp puppet tutorial ever!
Awesome tutorial with a cute little guy. pa pa pa pa puppet position tool. Gave me a good chuckle.
Glad you enjoyed it
great tutorial
Thank you! This was wonderful
THANKS TUT! Your videos are always super helpful, I feel like I'm becoming and animate pro already!
me too😂😄
thank you for you tutorial! It was really straightforward and easy to follow :D
this dude is a legendary !! thanks man !! i learned a lot from you !!
Thank you so much for your amazing tutorials. 🤩 This is so helpful and the way you explain it makes it so easy to learn. 😃
You are so welcome!
this was an extraordinarily helpful crash course/memory jog! Thanks so much!
Happy to help!
Great explanation of each type of pin!
Glad it was helpful!
Clear & concise, love it.
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you very much!!!
Happy to help!
Great tutorial very well explained . Thank you
Happy to help!
Brilliant. Thank you so much. Just what I needed. Owe you a pint or two 🙂
Thanks, this was helpful! So many Linda videos are dry as can be so this was great
This is so helpful for a project I'm working on! Thank you so much!!!
Thank you very much! I was struggling with animating some objects, this helped me a lot
Thanks for showing me how to use the starch pin :)
No problem 😊
Great overview over this tool. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks! Very easy to follow. I used it on my most recent video. I'm still figuring out after effects, so this was really helpful.
Efficient tutorial, helps me a lot and I will put on my personal playlist. Tnks mate!
Happy to help!
So, SO helpful! Thank you for this!
Great video man!
Thankyou!
Perfect tutorial
Thanks!
So great!
Great intro tut! Thank you. More on this please!
I'll add it to the list!
Thanks!! this is very helpful, and btw ure so polite lol!!!! keep it up man:3
sooo helpful! you make a great teacher! thank you!
Great video!
Just BRILLIANT
Thankyou!
Fantastic tutorial! Quick question - you mention at 9:51 that if you were animating the octopus for real, you'd put each limb on a separate layer. Would you do this by separating the limbs into individual layers in Illustrator first, and then importing the .ai file into After Effects as a composition? Or would you go about it another way?
Exactly that!
A lot more proprieties per puppet pin tool" Love it :-) Thanks!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
this was such a life saver- thank you!
Anytime!
Very easy to follow. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
So clear, Thank you...
You missed one of the most powerful features of using this tool with a multiple-layer character. If one of the layers is made a parent of the others, you can create pins on the parent which will control transformations of the others. After parenting, move the anchor point of a child layer to match the pin on the parent, enable position keyframes and use the pickwhip to tie the position to that particular puppet pin. Or you can just write out the expression. If layers are joined this way you never have to worry about the gaps between layers during big position jumps. This technique saves a huge amount of time on even relatively simple rigs.
I didn't know this, thats a great tip!
Thanks heaps, nice, simple and easy tutorial!
great tut... dont stop teaching me... dont stop teanching us... lol
hey man, can you do a video about rigging and lip syncing for animations? there are plenty of videos out there for the topics i mentioned but i believe you'd do a better job.
Thanks mate🥰
THANK YOU OH DEAR THIS IS SO HELPFUL!!!
Glad it helped!
Lovely tutorial thanks a lot mate!
Happy to help!
Thanks for the tutorial
No problem!
This was great, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Really great tutorial! Thanks!
No worries!
It was helpful to me . Thank you for making this❤👌
You're welcome 😊
ARgh finally found it. Thank you so much for this :) As an animator, its easy to do, but to find goo dresources is hard. T_T
Great tutorial, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
I've Learned it, Thank you so Much!1!!!!1!!!!!!!!
Great!
Super helpful. Thanks.
one of the secrets to Cyriak's wackiness
Thank you!!
Great tutorial!
Thanks!
This is amazing ! thank you! :D
Glad you like it!
wonderful lesson, now I can animate characters better. Thank you.
Really helpful. Thanks! 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you! So helpful!
Happy to help!
This is fvcking awesome
Very informative.
Glad you think so!
Very helpful tutorial thank you :)
thank you!!
Thanks a lot! Very useful 👌🤗
Happy to help!
i like the pupupuppupupuppet tool part
Super helpful. thanks!
Happy to help!
Do you know that meme of parks and rec surprised andy? That's me right now!! Thank you!
Life saver. Thx a lot!
fast and clear. thanks :)
GREAT!
Happy to help!
ty
helpful tutorial!
No problem!
thanks a lot!
thank you
Genial, gracias
When I will use the Puppet PIN ( in AE 2019)or pin tool, it speaks q gave a drawing error nn specified...what can I do? I have tried to move and activate the GPU but it seems that this option is forbidden, anyone help me?
I only struggle with one thing: every time I use puppet pin tool to animate something (sometimes it's an AI file and sometimes just a shape layer in AE) there are weird lines. As if its shape has been cut ... and the problem is not low quality. Can you please help me with this?
Why is everything going smoothly? But with me he moves not only when he wants to; very slowly, as if I had a computer before 2000?
You're footage is probably pre-rendering. Wait for the green bar above your timeline, it'll play at full speed then.
Thank you
You're welcome
Nice, thank you!
Happy to help!
thanks bro
cool. To the point. Like that!
thankk u!!
I can't move the keyframes that are in the timeline, can anyone help me?
same problem
I have a small question. If i want to only animate simple things like text boxes, warp a box to a particular shape, animate self drawing borders, make a flower grow out kinda, like we see in motion graphics explainer videos. But i dont need in depth stuff like character creation & animation.
Just the ability to bend photos to match a curve etc and those kind of things for corporate videos and such. Is it better to use AE or ANIMATE CC for my needs ?
Question~
Sometimes when I've used the puppet tool, it will just stop working and I don't know why. My keyframes will still be on the timeline but my puppet points won't highlight/disappear?? Do you know why? I can't seem to find an answer, so I end up having to start from scratch again
If you change or update your graphics in Illustrator, it will mess with the animation. The puppet tool also doesn't like rasterizing to be turned on, so rather keep your source graphics large and scale down in AE to keep them sharp. A pretty good rule with the puppet tool is to use it last in any animation. If you need to change properties of the graphics after you've animated, the chances of it messing with your animation are quite high.