Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2019 Release), First Edition

Now you can move a pincer with the Selection tool. The more pins you place, the smaller the area of influence for each pin, and ...

Advanced pins appear as dots surrounded by rings. To scale an area, drag the box in the ring outward or inward. To rotate an are ...

8. Select Show in the options section of the Tools panel to display the distortion mesh. The crab is nearly the same color as th ...

12. Choose File > Save to save your work so far. Defining areas of overlap If your animation requires part of the object or c ...

as in the image below. 4. Hide the properties for the crab.psd layer in the Timeline panel. 5. Choose File > Save to save you ...

ring to the right) for the right pincer. 3. Go to 5:00, and move the Left Pincer and Right Pincer pins so that the pincers are f ...

11. Choose File > Save to save your animation, and then hide all properties for the crab.psd layer. Using the Puppet tools to ...

tool to drag the pins into position in real time. After Effects starts recording the motion as soon as you begin dragging a pin, ...

already visible. 7. Select the Left Pincer pin in the Composition panel, and press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (macOS) to activate ...

Tips for a smooth animation experience Create different layers for different moving parts: draw the mouth on one layer, the righ ...

panel. To animate pin positions more quickly, use the Puppet Sketch tool: With the Puppet Position Pin tool selected, press Ctrl ...

9 Using the Roto Brush Tool Lesson overview In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following: Extract a foreground object fr ...

PROJECT: TV COMMERCIAL With the Roto Brush tool, you can quickly separate a foreground object from a background across many fram ...

First, you’ll preview the final movie and set up your project. 1. Make sure the following files are in the Lessons/Lesson09 fold ...

After Effects creates a composition named boy, based on the settings in the boy.mov file. The composition is three seconds long, ...

By default, the Roto Brush tool creates green foreground strokes. You’ll start by adding strokes to the foreground—the boy. Gene ...

A magenta outline identifies the boundaries After Effects created for the foreground object. After Effects recognized only about ...

deselect the area under the boy’s hat where the background shows through. In fact, one click may be all it takes to exclude that ...

12. Click the Toggle Alpha button ( ) at the bottom of the Layer panel. The selected area is white against a black background, s ...

You’ll step through the frames in the span and make adjustments to the segmentation boundary as necessary. 2. Press the 2 key on ...