 Hello everyone, welcome back to another Adobe After Effects tutorial guys in this one I'm gonna show you how to work with Photoshop documents or any old vector type document that you load into After Effects and we're gonna look at the Puppet and the pin tools so we're basically gonna make this thing Move over time and have like this cool puppety thing in fact the more importantly We're gonna look at the advanced pin tool and we're gonna look at the starch pin tool If you're new to animation or if you're new to the puppet tools and After Effects It does take a little bit of getting used to plus. There's some new stuff out that is Worth a look so let's just start up here. I've got 565.psd, which I downloaded free off the internet. I got it on free pic calm It was one of the free vectors there, so I'm just gonna use that So there's no copyright issues and at the same time I've created a white solid in the background And if you're not sure how to do that, let's just go ahead and do that you go up here to layer you go up to new You go to solid You select the color here hit okay make comp size and Then hit okay, and you will see that I have made a white solid so everything's kind of you know Kind of kosher there So I'm gonna now make sure that I'm clicked on to the 565.psd or if you're following along whatever Document you're using and when you look at this 565.psd when I drop it down You are gonna notice here that there's not a whole bunch of layers, right? This is just one solid document and we're just looking at the puppet tool There are other ways often better ways to animate using multiple layers and Parenting layers and things like that where each thing you can move independently But I want to show you the puppet tool in the interim and you can do some pretty cool stuff with this tool So anyways, I've got this selected next up here is you want to go up here and you want to go Right up here to your puppet tool now in the past there was puppet pin tool and puppet starch tool and Puppet overlap tool, but now there's an advanced pin tool and there's also a bend tool So we're gonna show you the advanced pin tool. So I'm gonna left-click. I'm gonna hold it down I'm gonna make sure that I'm plugged or I'm hanging over puppet advanced pin tool from there I'm gonna add pins right here on This guy right on his tentacles here. So let's just do like here here in here Let's do those three tentacles and one like right between his eyes So you are gonna see here that I've got for I've got puppet and I've got four pins. I'm gonna zoom in a bit and now I'm gonna switch over to my Selection tool and I'm gonna select one of these and I'm gonna show you what you can do you can decrease The size like this where he's got like a little Beetlejuice hand My commands that to cancel that I'm also gonna go zoom out and I'm gonna show you if we increase the size You can move So we can do this over time So let's say we start there and then after like two seconds. We want his hand to come in So we would bring it in like that and then maybe we want it to shrink in size So we would say do something like that or it's a little smaller Now you're gonna also notice here that when I hover over what I'm hovering here You're gonna see that I have the arrow and it kind of follows a circular path That means we can also do a rotation. So I'm gonna show you the rotation so you can rotate it in You can rotate it out. The issue with this is it impacts all of these other Parts here, especially right up here to the skull. So in the next section I'm gonna show you how we can sort of mitigate that but again You can make rotations here if you want to rotate move move his head down And then we're gonna do a rotation of the skull You know what guys and then move it forward maybe to four seconds and then we're gonna pull his head out here and Let's go for the rotation and we're gonna rotate it the other way. There isn't unlimited number of things I'm just gonna back it up to the beginning and just show you what we've got here So we've got him kind of just doing some rotating his arm comes in goes out Again, there's no real rhyme or reason to what we're doing here I'm just showing you the techniques that you can accomplish just with these pin tools now The other part of this is I want to show you the starch tool or the starch pin tool so that when you make Adjustments locally like let's say we're gonna make an adjustment to this guy's Tentacle here. It's not gonna pull in the rest of his body and his skull and all that other stuff We wanted to just sort of happen on its own and that could be done with the starch tool So I'm gonna go here to puppet and I'm gonna hit delete on puppet and all of those are done And we are basically starting over from scratch again. We're gonna go up here. We're gonna grab the roto Oops, we're gonna grab the puppet advanced pin tool. I'm gonna put a pin here. I'm gonna put one right between his eyes I'm gonna put one on that tentacle and one on that tentacle just to just to keep it nice and consistent Now I'm gonna click off And when I click on it when I click the tool here and I click on pardon me I'm gonna click on puppet. You're gonna see I have those four green Dots and they're not real big. I must admit the next step here is you want to go up to not that one damn it I keep it wrong button this one here and you want to start putting in puppet starch tools Starch tools are basically kind of like when you get a suit starched It makes them rigid and less flexible so the parts that you starch up They are much less likely to move. In fact, they become quite rigid So I'm gonna go a little over the top to show you how this works. I'm gonna starch right here I'm gonna starch across his tentacle just like this Right all the way up to his skull and I'm just doing a lot of starching Just because I want to keep this nice and simple. I want to show you how this works I'm not trying to do it an advanced animation here. I just want to show you how the starch tools work So I've placed down a whole bunch of starch and now I'm gonna zoom out. I'm gonna go back To my selection tool. I'm gonna zoom in again I'm gonna click on puppet and I'm gonna go to the green one, which is actually quite small now Earlier on in the video you remember that when I started twisting and turning this Advanced pin tool all sorts of stuff was happening to his face and to his to his head and to to this tentacle Let's take a look at it when I grow the size of it And I'm I'm increasing the size you're gonna see here I might just zoom out a bit and lower it down and zoom in you're gonna see here that it only impacted Really the tip of his hand So instead of it pulling in his head and all that other nonsense that it does it actually is only working locally now I'm gonna do some rotation now. It does pull the top of the head a little bit and it does pull the Tentacle in a little bit, but you do kind of in most cases you want a little bit of that organic look So it doesn't look like it's completely isolated if you didn't want that I will add you could add in even more starch Points points here here here and across the top of the skull and maybe some in here so that it completely Isolates it, but in this case it just gives it that nice organic Little bit of movement, but again, you're not completely You know working your picture when you're doing your animations And then if we were to do this over time like let's say that time zero This is the look we want and then at two seconds, right? Like I'm gonna I'm gonna pull it I'm gonna pull his hand out a bit like this Okay, and then maybe I'll increase the size a little bit Right, you'll see that the starch points are moving and then you'll see a very subtle animation. Let's see what it looks like Very subtle over those two seconds where again when you we started at the beginning It was very very, you know as abrupt and the skull and everything was getting pulled along with it So this is some of the technique stuff that you can do with The puppet pin tools guys. I have a few more videos for the pin tools So you can get even a little better. We can even start doing some like walking motion and stuff like that But that's enough for this tutorial guys. Thank you for joining me. I got a lot more stuff coming up. Be back soon