The Puppet Pin Tool | After Effects Tutorial

[@chouvaille]

your 11-min video is much clearer and more understandable than my teacher's 2-hour lesson :)) Don't know why I go to school

[@TipTut]

Happy to help!

[@brooklynpresnell]

With my animation class being online and asynchronous I have been left to figure things out on my own basically and an issue I worked 40 minutes on was fixed after watching not even a full minute of your video so thank you from a very stressed student!!!

[@TipTut]

Happy to help! Keep your chin up :)

[@remaasali2515]

same lol and how am here again deadline soon 😭😭😭😭

[@masterkenobi3666]

heres some simple help for mid users of AE. puppet tool collapse usages: 5:14 - starch tool 6:53 - bend pin tool 7:27 - puppet pin advance tool 8:00 - puppet pin overlap tool

[@annettedoodles]

Thank you so much!!! This is soo helpful. and I love it when you say "excuse me" when you grab the wrong thing it makes me laugh!

[@TipTut]

You are so welcome!

[@jjutt87]

I love a teacher with good manners

[@64br13l2008]

Honestly when I see pros messing up like that, makes me feel like "ok, so it happens even to the best" and a lot of the pressure comes off of my shoulders

[@jamailehall1463]

Your video is still going strong 3 years later! This is saving my life for a walk cycle I have to do! Thanks!

[@thomasweber5354]

Great tutorial! Starting at 10:33 you have copy and pasted multiple pre-compositions to loop it. If you are not aware of it, look into using the "loop out" expression with time-remapping on one layer. It lets you indefinitely loop a pre-composition or any other key frames without having to copy and paste them! saves a tone of time and cleans up the composition.

[@ChristopherSmith-nw1mk]

You'd make a great teacher. Very clear and thorough, Thankyou!

[@TipTut]

Thank you so much!

[@conactionsirjohn1197]

An incredibly charming and incredibly useful tutorial! I loved that you went over options that weren't used in this example as well, just a fantastic job all around.

[@RelaxandChillChannel]

great tutorial

[@lyrasiren7940]

Super clear and straight-forward with easy to understand examples. Thank you so much for your tutorial!

[@Emerald_The_Thing]

Oh my god your actually a life saver!! I couldn’t figure out how to make it so smooth!! This helped me so much!! Thank you!!!

[@TipTut]

Happy to help!

[@Dosujin]

So helpful, hope I'll have your level some day ! Keep going !

[@glyphvisual]

Fantastic tutorial! Quick question - you mention at 9:51 that if you were animating the octopus for real, you'd put each limb on a separate layer. Would you do this by separating the limbs into individual layers in Illustrator first, and then importing the .ai file into After Effects as a composition? Or would you go about it another way?

[@TipTut]

Exactly that!

[@creative-media]

Thanks so much! So THAT's how people do those animations that I've always thought were beyond my skill level! :-)

[@ayam8641]

Awesome tutorial with a cute little guy. pa pa pa pa puppet position tool. Gave me a good chuckle.

[@TipTut]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@memicha9885]

Best pppppp puppet tutorial ever!

[@pedrochaves7449]

Simple and easy. All that I needed. Thank you!

[@TipTut]

You're welcome!

[@MorisSoorati]

this dude is a legendary !! thanks man !! i learned a lot from you !!

[@MaxwellCPAreview]

Great explanation of each type of pin!

[@TipTut]

Glad it was helpful!

[@equinoxx66]

Very comprehensive video thank you so much!!!!

[@simonpage3899]

Brilliant. Thank you so much. Just what I needed. Owe you a pint or two 🙂

[@wiktoriatluvi]

Exactly what I was looking for, thank you very much!!!

[@TipTut]

Happy to help!

[@leejamesmcknight]

Clear & concise, love it.

[@beemimoo3746]

THANKS TUT! Your videos are always super helpful, I feel like I'm becoming and animate pro already!

[@shadmehr8341]

me too😂😄

[@user-zo8lx8pz5r]

A thank you isn’t enough but it’s all i have, thank you so much

[@TipTut]

It's plenty!

[@GeorgFKa]

Great overview over this tool. Thank you.

[@TipTut]

Glad it was helpful!

[@impagain]

this was an extraordinarily helpful crash course/memory jog! Thanks so much!

[@TipTut]

Happy to help!

[@exodusmediasg]

Great tutorial very well explained . Thank you

[@TipTut]

Happy to help!

[@HappyHaraTV]

thank you for you tutorial! It was really straightforward and easy to follow :D

[@carlabellot7124]

So, SO helpful! Thank you for this!

[@KRGB]

Technically that’s a septapus. Octo = 8. But more than that it’s a damned fine tutorial and an excellent introduction to the updated puppet pin functionality. Thank you, and keep up the great work. You always do a stellar job!

[@tinaghani8068]

Thank you so much for your amazing tutorials. 🤩 This is so helpful and the way you explain it makes it so easy to learn. 😃

[@TipTut]

You are so welcome!

[@tanookitime7604]

Thanks, this was helpful! So many Linda videos are dry as can be so this was great

[@Q2Japan]

Very easy to follow. Thanks!

[@TipTut]

Glad it was helpful!

[@himarsssssss]

sooo helpful! you make a great teacher! thank you!

[@laralilly]

This is so helpful for a project I'm working on! Thank you so much!!!

[@ekaterina_sherstobitova]

First thing in my mind: WAIT, I don't need DUIK to start playing around with puppet tool?! :D Thank you so much for the tutorial!

[@andreppg]

Efficient tutorial, helps me a lot and I will put on my personal playlist. Tnks mate!

[@TipTut]

Happy to help!

[@rizwanzaman1793]

Thank you very much! I was struggling with animating some objects, this helped me a lot

[@wouter8596]

You sound so much like the guy from that meditation app. Great voice :)

[@TipTut]

I get this all the time haha.

[@jickmargerison]

Great video man!

[@TipTut]

Thankyou!

[@nerdist_jpg264]

this was such a life saver- thank you!

[@TipTut]

Anytime!

[@jrumsey1001]

Great intro tut! Thank you. More on this please!

[@TipTut]

I'll add it to the list!

[@timhook9082]

Thanks for showing me how to use the starch pin :)

[@TipTut]

No problem 😊

[@erickreyes2251]

So great!

[@BaronesLoveyDeLuxe]

Great video!

[@ddyulien]

Thanks!! this is very helpful, and btw ure so polite lol!!!! keep it up man:3

[@onkardomkawle3469]

hey man, can you do a video about rigging and lip syncing for animations? there are plenty of videos out there for the topics i mentioned but i believe you'd do a better job.

[@worthlessprofessor6477]

Thanks! Very easy to follow. I used it on my most recent video. I'm still figuring out after effects, so this was really helpful.

[@adamsaher446]

Just BRILLIANT

[@TipTut]

Thankyou!

[@Ali-sj7kx]

I've Learned it, Thank you so Much!1!!!!1!!!!!!!!

[@TipTut]

Great!

[@samuellouis4940]

THANK YOU OH DEAR THIS IS SO HELPFUL!!!

[@TipTut]

Glad it helped!

[@Manoj3d]

So clear, Thank you...

[@Spectamin]

Thanks for the tutorial

[@TipTut]

No problem!

[@sufianmaroni378]

ARgh finally found it. Thank you so much for this :) As an animator, its easy to do, but to find goo dresources is hard. T_T

[@HeavyMentalArt]

Thanks heaps, nice, simple and easy tutorial!

[@lpcproduction1842]

Perfect tutorial

[@TipTut]

Thanks!

[@shadmehr8341]

It was helpful to me . Thank you for making this❤👌

[@TipTut]

You're welcome 😊

[@baileyjung648]

This was great, thank you!

[@TipTut]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@DeadRain]

Hey great tutorial! Is there any way to make the paths of the puppet anchor points curved?

[@RommySandhuDirChoreo]

Great tutorial, thanks!

[@TipTut]

Glad it was helpful!

[@angelo_knf]

Really helpful. Thanks! 😊

[@TipTut]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Missemscie]

Great tutorial!

[@TipTut]

Thanks!

[@MerryTech]

A lot more proprieties per puppet pin tool" Love it :-) Thanks!!

[@TipTut]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@flowerflow9186]

Hi TipTut, thanks for the tuto it will help me a lot for my projects. But recently I have a problem when I try to use "The puppet corner positioning tool" they display "After effect (warning) unspecified drawing error" can you help me for this problem?

[@heenadhabhai5510]

wonderful lesson, now I can animate characters better. Thank you.

[@Cinedragon]

Really great tutorial! Thanks!

[@TipTut]

No worries!

[@kentan9928]

This is amazing ! thank you! :D

[@TipTut]

Glad you like it!

[@monicav941]

Thanks a lot! Very useful 👌🤗

[@TipTut]

Happy to help!

[@Johanfrancis007]

Thanks mate🥰

[@amarissimus29]

You missed one of the most powerful features of using this tool with a multiple-layer character. If one of the layers is made a parent of the others, you can create pins on the parent which will control transformations of the others. After parenting, move the anchor point of a child layer to match the pin on the parent, enable position keyframes and use the pickwhip to tie the position to that particular puppet pin. Or you can just write out the expression. If layers are joined this way you never have to worry about the gaps between layers during big position jumps. This technique saves a huge amount of time on even relatively simple rigs.

[@TipTut]

I didn't know this, thats a great tip!

[@ThanujaMalimbada]

Thank you! So helpful!

[@TipTut]

Happy to help!

[@mandridhugh9555]

one of the secrets to Cyriak's wackiness

[@cloudfreeman6233]

This is fvcking awesome

[@mgr5550]

I have a small question. If i want to only animate simple things like text boxes, warp a box to a particular shape, animate self drawing borders, make a flower grow out kinda, like we see in motion graphics explainer videos. But i dont need in depth stuff like character creation & animation. Just the ability to bend photos to match a curve etc and those kind of things for corporate videos and such. Is it better to use AE or ANIMATE CC for my needs ?

[@AArmstrongC]

fast and clear. thanks :)

[@SanneStars]

It was super helpful, only you lost me a bit at the end when the actual "animating" started, how did you get it in a loop? whenever I do this, it only moves for one time and I want it to be in a loop, like the octopus! But the video is great, your explaining is very clear!

[@zeddotexe]

Basically he made two copies of the key frames, one at the start of all the pins when they were normal, another in the middle where he distorted them, and one at the end which was the normal undistorted version. So AE started animating it moving from start to middle, and from middle to end it was going back to normal.

[@SpeedMotionDesign]

Very helpful tutorial thank you :)

[@gabrielavitan7158]

Life saver. Thx a lot!

[@iamthefilter]

Do you know that meme of parks and rec surprised andy? That's me right now!! Thank you!

[@tomdempsey4394]

Super helpful. thanks!

[@TipTut]

Happy to help!

[@tinaghani8068]

I only struggle with one thing: every time I use puppet pin tool to animate something (sometimes it's an AI file and sometimes just a shape layer in AE) there are weird lines. As if its shape has been cut ... and the problem is not low quality. Can you please help me with this?

[@VOLTSNVOLUMEOFFICIAL]

i like the pupupuppupupuppet tool part

[@newcars4223]

Very informative.

[@TipTut]

Glad you think so!

[@jas-jr3rv]

can you change the strength at which it deforms and how much it affects other areas? like if i'd like to shrink the area of where it affects

[@LonelyDogBarking]

cool. To the point. Like that!

[@Lucalaurin]

Hey great video! I have a question. When I move an object by using Transform->position I noticed the puppet pins don't move with the object (this creates weird disappearing and reappearing effects. If I want to move an object which has puppet pins do I always have to move it by moving all the puppet pins together?

[@TipTut]

Hi, you can precompose it and move the composition.

[@MrJokers223]

When u move the pin ,what do u click to reset it to the normal position it was in

[@saharz148]

My puppet dosnt work 😭 it dosnt let me to add pin. Some times it works and sometimes not. Both layers are for one composition but one of them hasn't [Mesh]. What should i do?😭

[@ziqiguo9758]

thank you!!

[@Nyaiv]

I can't move the keyframes that are in the timeline, can anyone help me?

[@siyahlider9769]

same problem

[@CherryCandy008]

When I will use the Puppet PIN ( in AE 2019)or pin tool, it speaks q gave a drawing error nn specified...what can I do? I have tried to move and activate the GPU but it seems that this option is forbidden, anyone help me?

[@fillette0318]

how do you edit the keys in the graph editor to make the movement more smooth like in the first animation?? it doesnt let me

[@aikaampakistani5713]

amazing tool without paid plugin

[@jackalopeb9598]

I have an animal I need to animate that was made in PSD. There are numerous layers inside. For some reason the pin tools don't move with the animal onscreen. I want to move positions. What should I do?

[@bungeeegummm564]

You're awesome!

[@TipTut]

You are!

[@fhaerlarsen]

Hello. Love your work. Is it possible to get the ai files?

[@SporeAltair]

Why is everything going smoothly? But with me he moves not only when he wants to; very slowly, as if I had a computer before 2000?

[@TipTut]

You're footage is probably pre-rendering. Wait for the green bar above your timeline, it'll play at full speed then.

[@nives5067]

Nice, thank you!

[@TipTut]

Happy to help!

[@Dereckg1]

Is there a way to move the entire puppet and make the other parts follow it?