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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 ?
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 :/
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!
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.
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.
Super clear and straight-forward with easy to understand examples. Thank you so much for your 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 !
great tutorial
Thanks so much! So THAT's how people do those animations that I've always thought were beyond my skill level! :-)
Simple and easy. All that I needed. Thank you!
You're welcome!
Thank you! This was wonderful
Great explanation of each type of pin!
Glad it was helpful!
Brilliant. Thank you so much. Just what I needed. Owe you a pint or two 🙂
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
thank you for you tutorial! It was really straightforward and easy to follow :D
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😂😄
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you very much!!!
Happy to help!
Great tutorial very well explained . Thank you
Happy to help!
Thanks, this was helpful! So many Linda videos are dry as can be so this was great
A thank you isn’t enough but it’s all i have, thank you so much
It's plenty!
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!
Thank you very much! I was struggling with animating some objects, this helped me a lot
So, SO helpful! Thank you for this!
Clear & concise, love it.
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!
You sound so much like the guy from that meditation app. Great voice :)
I get this all the time haha.
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.
Thanks!! this is very helpful, and btw ure so polite lol!!!! keep it up man:3
Best pppppp puppet tutorial ever!
Great intro tut! Thank you. More on this please!
I'll add it to the list!
sooo helpful! you make a great teacher! thank you!
It was helpful to me . Thank you for making this❤👌
You're welcome 😊
Super helpful. Thanks.
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?
Exactly that!
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!
Thanks for showing me how to use the starch pin :)
No problem 😊
this was such a life saver- thank you!
Anytime!
Thanks heaps, nice, simple and easy tutorial!
Thanks for the tutorial
No problem!
A lot more proprieties per puppet pin tool" Love it :-) Thanks!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Perfect tutorial
Thanks!
I've Learned it, Thank you so Much!1!!!!1!!!!!!!!
Great!
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
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.
So great!
wonderful lesson, now I can animate characters better. Thank you.
Great video!
Just BRILLIANT
Thankyou!
Great video man!
Thankyou!
Really helpful. Thanks! 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Lovely tutorial thanks a lot mate!
Happy to help!
THANK YOU OH DEAR THIS IS SO HELPFUL!!!
Glad it helped!
Thanks mate🥰
Thanks a lot! Very useful 👌🤗
Happy to help!
Great tutorial, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
This is fvcking awesome
So clear, Thank you...
Thank you!!
Very informative.
Glad you think so!
amazing tool without paid plugin
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!
Very helpful tutorial thank you :)
This is amazing ! thank you! :D
Glad you like it!
i like the pupupuppupupuppet tool part
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.
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?
Genial, gracias
Great tutorial!
Thanks!
fast and clear. thanks :)
thank you
Thank you! So helpful!
Happy to help!
one of the secrets to Cyriak's wackiness
Hey great tutorial! Is there any way to make the paths of the puppet anchor points curved?
thanks a lot!
great tut... dont stop teaching me... dont stop teanching us... lol
Life saver. Thx a lot!
thanks bro
Nice, thank you!
Happy to help!
ty
helpful tutorial!
No problem!
cool. To the point. Like that!
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?
Thank You so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're welcome!
Do you know that meme of parks and rec surprised andy? That's me right now!! Thank you!
You're awesome!
You are!
GREAT!
Happy to help!
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 ?
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.
Hello. Love your work. Is it possible to get the ai files?
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
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 :/