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.
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.
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?
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!
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?
Hi TipTut, thanks for the tuto it will help me a lot for my projects. But recently I have a problem when I try to use "The puppet corner positioning tool" they display "After effect (warning) unspecified drawing error" can you help me for this problem?
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 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 ?
I have an animal I need to animate that was made in PSD. There are numerous layers inside. For some reason the pin tools don't move with the animal onscreen. I want to move positions. What should I do?
It was super helpful, only you lost me a bit at the end when the actual "animating" started, how did you get it in a loop? whenever I do this, it only moves for one time and I want it to be in a loop, like the octopus! But the video is great, your explaining is very clear!
Basically he made two copies of the key frames, one at the start of all the pins when they were normal, another in the middle where he distorted them, and one at the end which was the normal undistorted version. So AE started animating it moving from start to middle, and from middle to end it was going back to normal.
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?
Hi Tip tut, thanks for the tutorial. Im having trouble with a plant that i done in photoshop. I placed the puppet pins over a precomp which is in another precomp and I changed the scale and position of the bigger precomp and before it was breaking and now it just disappears although when i click into the precomp is still there. I tried tweaking the mesh size and precoping and deprecomping and it still wont work :/
This applies perfectly to imported Illustrator objects, but I also noticed that it does not apply to the shapes I create inside AE. Am I right or did I miss something?
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.
Hey great video! I have a question. When I move an object by using Transform->position I noticed the puppet pins don't move with the object (this creates weird disappearing and reappearing effects. If I want to move an object which has puppet pins do I always have to move it by moving all the puppet pins together?
My puppet dosnt work 😭 it dosnt let me to add pin. Some times it works and sometimes not. Both layers are for one composition but one of them hasn't [Mesh]. What should i do?😭
Thank you for the tutorial can u move the position of the object using the position tool and still use the puppet tool? Mine doesn't seem to be working when I do that
@@TipTut thank you for the quick reply :) I have tried what you said it's managed to pair but it's still not working together do u have anymore tips or do you know the reason why?
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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
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.
Your video is still going strong 3 years later! This is saving my life for a walk cycle I have to do! Thanks!
You'd make a great teacher. Very clear and thorough, Thankyou!
Thank you so much!
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!
great tutorial
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!
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! :-)
Best pppppp puppet tutorial ever!
Simple and easy. All that I needed. Thank you!
You're welcome!
this dude is a legendary !! thanks man !! i learned a lot from you !!
Awesome tutorial with a cute little guy. pa pa pa pa puppet position tool. Gave me a good chuckle.
Glad you enjoyed it
Very comprehensive video thank you so much!!!!
Great explanation of each type of pin!
Glad it was helpful!
thank you for you tutorial! It was really straightforward and easy to follow :D
Brilliant. Thank you so much. Just what I needed. Owe you a pint or two 🙂
Clear & concise, love it.
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you very much!!!
Happy to help!
this was an extraordinarily helpful crash course/memory jog! Thanks so much!
Happy to help!
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!
THANKS TUT! Your videos are always super helpful, I feel like I'm becoming and animate pro already!
me too😂😄
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.
Great tutorial very well explained . Thank you
Happy to help!
This is so helpful for a project I'm working on! Thank you so much!!!
Great overview over this tool. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
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 thank you isn’t enough but it’s all i have, thank you so much
It's plenty!
So, SO helpful! Thank you for this!
Thanks, this was helpful! So many Linda videos are dry as can be so this was great
Thank you very much! I was struggling with animating some objects, this helped me a lot
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!
sooo helpful! you make a great teacher! thank you!
Very easy to follow. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Efficient tutorial, helps me a lot and I will put on my personal playlist. Tnks mate!
Happy to help!
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.
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!
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?
Hi TipTut, thanks for the tuto it will help me a lot for my projects. But recently I have a problem when I try to use "The puppet corner positioning tool" they display "After effect (warning) unspecified drawing error" can you help me for this problem?
It was helpful to me . Thank you for making this❤👌
You're welcome 😊
Great intro tut! Thank you. More on this please!
I'll add it to the list!
You sound so much like the guy from that meditation app. Great voice :)
I get this all the time haha.
Thanks heaps, nice, simple and easy tutorial!
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!! this is very helpful, and btw ure so polite lol!!!! keep it up man:3
this was such a life saver- thank you!
Anytime!
Great video man!
Thankyou!
I've Learned it, Thank you so Much!1!!!!1!!!!!!!!
Great!
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 ?
I have an animal I need to animate that was made in PSD. There are numerous layers inside. For some reason the pin tools don't move with the animal onscreen. I want to move positions. What should I do?
A lot more proprieties per puppet pin tool" Love it :-) Thanks!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
It was super helpful, only you lost me a bit at the end when the actual "animating" started, how did you get it in a loop? whenever I do this, it only moves for one time and I want it to be in a loop, like the octopus! But the video is great, your explaining is very clear!
Basically he made two copies of the key frames, one at the start of all the pins when they were normal, another in the middle where he distorted them, and one at the end which was the normal undistorted version. So AE started animating it moving from start to middle, and from middle to end it was going back to normal.
THANK YOU OH DEAR THIS IS SO HELPFUL!!!
Glad it helped!
So clear, Thank you...
This was great, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great tutorial, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Really helpful. Thanks! 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Hey great tutorial! Is there any way to make the paths of the puppet anchor points curved?
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?
Great video!
Thanks for the tutorial
No problem!
can you change the strength at which it deforms and how much it affects other areas? like if i'd like to shrink the area of where it affects
Really great tutorial! Thanks!
No worries!
This is amazing ! thank you! :D
Glad you like it!
Very helpful tutorial thank you :)
Thanks a lot! Very useful 👌🤗
Happy to help!
I sometimes get weird artefacts. Just lines with 1 pixel which are ruining my comp :/
Do you know why?
Hi Tip tut, thanks for the tutorial. Im having trouble with a plant that i done in photoshop. I placed the puppet pins over a precomp which is in another precomp and I changed the scale and position of the bigger precomp and before it was breaking and now it just disappears although when i click into the precomp is still there. I tried tweaking the mesh size and precoping and deprecomping and it still wont work :/
This applies perfectly to imported Illustrator objects, but I also noticed that it does not apply to the shapes I create inside AE.
Am I right or did I miss something?
Hi, how do you parent pins to other pins/object and parented pins are still movable?
Thanks for showing me how to use the starch pin :)
No problem 😊
So great!
how do you edit the keys in the graph editor to make the movement more smooth like in the first animation?? it doesnt let me
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!
Just BRILLIANT
Thankyou!
I can't move the keyframes that are in the timeline, can anyone help me?
same problem
Is there a way to move the entire puppet and make the other parts follow it?
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.
wonderful lesson, now I can animate characters better. Thank you.
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.
When u move the pin ,what do u click to reset it to the normal position it was in
Perfect tutorial
Thanks!
Hey great video! I have a question. When I move an object by using Transform->position I noticed the puppet pins don't move with the object (this creates weird disappearing and reappearing effects.
If I want to move an object which has puppet pins do I always have to move it by moving all the puppet pins together?
Hi, you can precompose it and move the composition.
Thank you! So helpful!
Happy to help!
Super helpful. thanks!
Happy to help!
Life saver. Thx a lot!
When im trying to move the pins its not doing anything to the image :( did i forget to turn something on?
My puppet dosnt work 😭 it dosnt let me to add pin. Some times it works and sometimes not. Both layers are for one composition but one of them hasn't [Mesh]. What should i do?😭
why wont it let me grab the key frames in the bottom menu? it just grays them out and doesnt turn them blue. its ruining everything for me
Would love to use this with my 8th grade class but can't find the files :(
fast and clear. thanks :)
amazing tool without paid plugin
Hello. Love your work. Is it possible to get the ai files?
Do you know that meme of parks and rec surprised andy? That's me right now!! Thank you!
Thank you for the tutorial can u move the position of the object using the position tool and still use the puppet tool? Mine doesn't seem to be working when I do that
Use a null object and parent the object to it then move the null
@@TipTut thank you for the quick reply :)
I have tried what you said it's managed to pair but it's still not working together do u have anymore tips or do you know the reason why?
@@nicqueen125 should work but you could just precompose the object and apply the position key frames to the parent