Pro-Tips: Puppet Pin Tool in After Effects with Evan Abrams

Want to take your After Effects skills to the next level? Join Evan Abrams as he shares pro tips on using the Puppet Pin Tool in Adobe After Effects. Watch as Evan shows you the different uses of the puppet pin tool, from animating characters, to warping expressions and creating a 3D parallax of your image!
Following the live stream, join Evan Abrams on Discord Voice Chat to continue the conversation and ask questions directly: bit.ly/Pro-tipsPr
Host Evan Abrams is a freelance motion designer based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: www.behance.net/ECAbrams
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Join us LIVE on Behance: www.behance.net/live/adobelive
00:00 Start
01:00 What is the Puppet Pen Tool?
03:10 Altering the Puppet Pen Tool mesh
04:20 Using position points
06:00 Smooth bending transitions & overlapping mesh parts
09:30 The Bend and Advanced Pins
12:00 Using pins to create a “head turn” effect
14:00 Creating a controller with nulls
19:00 Adding more pins to create more precise movements
20:30 Exploring pins pre-set in more intricate placements
22:30 Isolating a subject

[@jacobdelarosa1399]

This is legitimately the most comprehensive and ***correct*** tutorial on puppet pins I have ever seen. You are a scholar and a gentleman. Don't ever change.

[@petersolomon5227]

Thank you Evan. In my view you remain one of the best After Affects online instructors.

[@maxherholzpetrol7324]

Fantastic tutorial, best one I have found on this topic. Really well presented.

[@df1938]

Great tutorial - I had no idea of the parallax potential.

[@FreshSqueezedLightning]

I swear there isn't a single after effect tutorial about using the puppet tool on moving subject video

[@toddlawrimore3577]

Thanks Evan. Learned several useful techniques.

[@tarazz]

awesome

[@saycluaa]

I have a question. I understand that you can set which part comes forward using the Puppet overlap tool when you animate from an object (image) with a Puppet tool. If we assume that it overlaps several times over time, can we set it to go back once in the future? Of course it would be possible if we could give a keyframe to the value 'In Front' that determines whether it's front or back, but we can't give a keyframe to the value 'In Front' at the moment, so I'd like to ask you how it's possible.