Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool
Philip Ebiner
Lesson Info
49. Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool
Lessons
Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates
06:22 2Understand the After Effects Workspace
05:39 3Starting a New Composition
08:15 4CC 2018 Update - Starting a New Composition from Footage
01:55 5Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline
05:08 6Using the Basic After Effects Tools
10:20Create a Perfect Circle, Alignment, and Shape Colors
03:04 8Working in the Timeline
10:59 9Layer Properties
08:57 10Quiz: After Effects Basics
11Animating in After Effects
07:35 12Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations
05:17 13Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral
04:21 14Using the Graph Editor
05:32 15Challenge - Bouncing Ball
01:01 16Solution - Bouncing Ball
13:00 17Quiz: Animating with Keyframes
18Working with Solid Layers and the Ken Burns Effects
07:07 19Working with Shape Layers, Strokes, and Paths
06:24 20Adding Layer Styles like Drop Shadow, Bevel, and Gradients
03:44 21Shape Effects - Trim Path Animations, Wiggle, and Zig Zag
05:54 22Quiz: Shapes and Solid Layers
23Track Matte Animations - Make Layers Appear and Disappear
08:37 24Using Pre-Compositions to Group Layers
05:34 25Easily Reverse Complicated Animations
02:14 26Playing with Time
05:54 27Blend Modes
06:05 28Stabilize Shaky Footage
04:04 29CC 2018 Update - Previewing and Favoriting Fonts
00:46 30CC 2019 Update - Responsive Design Time
03:36 31CC 2019 Content Aware Fill
03:55 32CC 2019 Create Motion Graphic Templates
08:37 33Quiz: Important After Effects Skills
34Intro to Motion Graphics Projects
00:53 35Clean Lower Third
09:22 36Logo Reveal Animation Bumper
13:25 37Colorful Transition
16:59 38Text with Mask Path Animation
10:05 39Text Bubble Animation
13:39 40Weather App 1
16:41 41Weather App 2
08:21 42Weather App 3
06:59 43Quiz: Motion Graphics Projects
44Flat Animation Challenge
02:47 45Phil Designs his Flat Animation Scene
01:23 46Animating Fireworks with the Repeater Effect
15:02 47Removing Green Screen Background
06:46 48Adding a Background that Matches the Foreground
07:55 49Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool
06:26 50Adding Movement with the Ripple Effect
06:07 51Quiz: Flat Animation Challenge
52Intro to 3D
10:04 53Swinging 3D Text Animation
12:11 54Build Out Your 3D Composition
05:47 55Animating Our 3D Scene
07:38 56Create Stars in After Effects
05:11 57Quiz: Green Screen (Chromakeying)
58Using the Rotoscope Tool
06:55 59Cleaning Up Your Edges
07:21 60Finishing Our Rotobrush Animation
07:33 61Quiz: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool
62Easy Screen Replacement with Masks
09:56 63Replacing a Screen Version 2
13:49 64Screen Replacement with Mocha
07:13 65CC 2019 Update - Native Mocha AE Plugin
05:08 66Quiz: Rotoscoping
67Using the Puppet Pin Tool
04:33 68Animating Your Puppet Pins
03:04 69Animated Blinking Eyes
08:21 70Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds
07:10 71CC 2018 Update - Advanced Puppet Pin Tool
02:08 72Quiz: Screen Replacements
73Applying Text Animation Presets
05:59 74Create a Page Turn Effect with CC Page Turn
10:05 75Radial and Linear Wipes
03:20 76Color Correction in After Effects
03:33 77CC 2019 Update - Selective Color Adjustments
03:25 78Quiz: Puppet Tool Animations
79Motion Tracking Basics
09:51 80Tracking Text and Visual Effects to Video Clip
06:21 81Tracking Rotation and Scale
11:33 82Adding Details to Our Text
04:04 83Quiz: Motion Tracking
84Intro to Character Animations
01:31 85Design Your Character
14:32 86Rigging Your Character
02:50 87Animating Our Character
09:55 88Adding the Animated Background
09:12 89Adding Details to Character Movement
06:46 90Adding the Paper Cut Out Look
05:29 91Quiz: Character Animations
92Exporting an H264 File from After Effects
07:03 93Exporting from After Effects with a Transparent Background
04:03 94Exporting from After Effects through Adobe Media Encoder
04:40 95CC 2018 Update - Exporting an Animated GIF from Adobe Media Encoder
02:14 96Create an Animated GIF from After Effects CC 2017
07:03 97Audio Tips for After Effects
02:19 98Working with Premiere Pro
05:54 99Quiz: After Effects Workflow & Tips
100Expressions Basics
07:24 101Animate a Flickering Light with Expressions
17:35 102Quiz: Expressions
103Conclusion
00:44 104Final Quiz
Lesson Info
Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool
the first thing we're going to do is add a little bit of motion to this photograph as if the camera was panning across the scene. So what we can do is basically do a position animation of the background. But if we do that and we move the background from side to side, our dog is left in the middle floating there. So to lock the dog to the grassy hill. So if we move the grassy hill, what do we have to do? We can parent it to the grassy hill. So now if we take the pick whip for the dog layer and attach it to the grassy hill. When we moved the grassy hill from left to right, it moves as well and the shadow since it's attached to the dog also moves. So now with that all set up, let's set a position for our starting point and let me just move it over to the side and then let's go to the end of our composition and drag to the left. So if we play through this we get a little subtle motion. And I love that subtle motion. I don't really need to see the dog right now and it's taking a lot of band...
width from my computer. So just to make things speed up, I'm going to turn off those layers. So cool, we got a little bit of motion. But in a natural environment, if you were looking at, you know, if you're sitting on this hill, this tree wouldn't be completely still, there would be a little bit of wind, you might see a little rustling in the grass down below, a little bit of movement in the leaves. So let's add some movement to add motion to something that is still, we will use the puppet pin tool first. Let's duplicate the grassy hill. And the reason is just so that if I do something to this layer, I can always go back and delete it and it just makes it easier to manipulate the puppet pin area. So choose the puppet pin tool and now start placing pins around these branches. So I'll put one here here and again, make sure that you have this grassy hill layer selected and then here, then also along here and I'll explain why in just a second, maybe here and here. If you press you on your keyboard, you find the key frames for all of the puppet pins that we've selected or added. And we have this puppet with the mesh and all of these pins. And so what is happening is we've told after effects that at this point we want these pins to be here. Let's zoom in. So let's zoom in on these leaves so we can see a little bit better. Okay, so what happens when we move one of these pins? So let me go forward in time. So we're creating a new key frame. Just use the selection tool and I move this, see what happens the entire photo kind of warps. If I actually zoom out, you'll see that the entire photo itself is warping and we don't want that. We just want this area of the photo to move. So to do that we're going to create a mask and we could have done this first but I just wanted to show you how that works. So let me just create a mask around these branches like so just around the edge of this branch as well. Okay, complete our mask. So if we turn off our bottom layer, this is what we're working with. I always like adding a little bit of feathering so press f on your keyboard and increase the feathering just so it's a little bit more natural when it's blended with the image in the background. Okay back to our pin tool, press u on the keyboard. What we want to do is move all of these key frames to the very beginning of our video clip. Then we'll go forward and this has got to be very subtle. Let me Delete This one that I had created and let's just move these pins from side to side. So now because it's masked out the entire image doesn't move. Just move it just ever so slightly and go forward and we'll move it back just ever so slightly. The reason why I put in all of these other pins is think of them as joints of your body and think of these as your arm. If I didn't have these pins set up then the entire image would move, but these are locked in place. So you have your shoulders locked in place, here is your shoulder, here is your elbow, here is your hand or your wrist, so you're able to move your elbow up and down or your wrist around without actually moving your shoulders. So these are kind of your anchor points and we need those to make sure that this part of the image isn't being warped because if this image warps something like this, then it looks weird with the background, we don't want that, we just want this part of the image to move just these branches down here. Let me extend these key frames just so that's really long and then play through and this is going to be render intensive. The puppet tool is render intensive, so if you have a slower computer, this might take a little while for it to render. So I'll render it out and then we'll see it play through. Alright, now it's rendered through. Let me close this layer down, I'll just rename this leaves and now just select off of that layer, so I don't see the pins or anything or the mask. And now just playing through. You see just subtle motion as if you know, the wind blew that branch and maybe it's a little too much, actually, we might want to make it a little bit more subtle in a future lesson, we'll be diving into the puppet to a little bit more and showing you how to use it in another real world project. But this is just sort of a teaser into how that works. Alright, so that's enough for this lesson. We added the motion to the photo, painting across motion to these leaves. Now, in the next lesson, we'll use it a cool effect to add a little bit of motion to these leaves in the background.
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