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

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Advanced pins appear as dots surrounded by rings. To scale an area, drag the box in the ring
outward or inward. To rotate an area, drag the ring itself clockwise or counter-clockwise. You’ll
use the Advanced pins to animate the pincers.


4. Select the Puppet Bend Pin tool ( ), hidden beneath the Puppet Advanced Pin tool in the
Tools panel.
5. Place a Bend pin in the middle of the crab’s left swimmer leg, and then place another one in
the middle of the right swimmer leg.

Depending on the type of animation you’re performing, you may want to name the pins. In this
case, you’ll name just the pincer and antenna pins.


6. Select Puppet Pin 13, press Enter or Return, and rename the pin Left Pincer. Press Enter or
Return again to accept the new name.

7. Hide the pins’ properties. Then, rename the corresponding pins Right Pincer, Left
Antenna, and Right Antenna. (They’re probably Puppet Pins 14, 3, and 4, respectively.)
The default pin names are numbered in the order they were created. You do not need to
name the pins on the legs unless you want to.
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