ToolsIntent:In this tutorial we will cover how to use the puppet tool in After Effects. One of the most fun areas to explore in After Effects is using the Puppet tools.

• Puppet Tool After Effects 2019

These provide a new way to warp layers, including shape and text layers created inside After Effects. Applications include creating character animation or just imparting fun movement to otherwise inanimate objects.Puppeting takes a clever approach. Rather than working with a rigid bone analogy, puppeting is more akin to working with a sheet of rubber.

Puppet Tool After Effects 2019

You place pins in this sheet where you want sections to stay put or at points where you want to pull and deform the rubber. All the pixels in-between flex as needed to accommodate your movements. There are optional tools for setting stiffness as well as making sections of a layer pass in front of or behind others.Puppet tools overview and resources:Use the Puppet tools to quickly add natural motion to raster images and vector graphics, including still images, shapes, and text characters. Note: Though the Puppet tools work within an effect (the Puppet effect), you don’t apply the effect using the Effect menu or the Effects & Presets panel. Use the Puppet tools in the Tools panel to directly apply and work with the effect in the Layer panel or Composition panel.

The Puppet effect works by deforming part of an image according to the positions of pins that you place and move. These pins define what parts of the image should move, what parts should remain rigid, and what parts should be in front when parts overlap Task:Part 11. Students are to take a picture of someone in the class in a position similar to the monster in the above image or find a character image online (png file format).2. Go online and find a png image of a posed character and a backgound.

Create a 10 second puppet video using your image on a background of your choice.

Not quite sure if this is the right terminology but hopefully you guys will get the idea.I've converted a 2D image into a smart object, dragged into a project then transformed it using the Distort command (similar to how you might distort a 2d image to make it sit inside a photo frame at an angle). I need to then warp that image around over something that looks like a curved panel thats 2D but looks 3d. Its not a 3d object, but a rendered 2d image that just looks 3d.I'm using the Transform Warp tool as Puppet Warp isnt available after using Distort when using Smart objects.Warp works fine to some extent but I could really do with more handles and smaler grid for more accurate warping rather than the default 3x3 grid & handles.Does anyone know if you can add more handles/ nodes/ control points (or whatever they'e called) and/ or increase grid points in the same way Puppet Warp does this so as I drag around I control a tigher & smaller space?

Not quite sure if this is the right terminology but hopefully you guys will get the idea.I've converted a 2D image into a smart object, dragged into a project then transformed it using the Distort command (similar to how you might distort a 2d image to make it sit inside a photo frame at an angle). I need to then warp that image around over something that looks like a curved panel thats 2D but looks 3d. Its not a 3d object, but a rendered 2d image that just looks 3d.I'm using the Transform Warp tool as Puppet Warp isnt available after using Distort when using Smart objects.Warp works fine to some extent but I could really do with more handles and smaler grid for more accurate warping rather than the default 3x3 grid & handles.Does anyone know if you can add more handles/ nodes/ control points (or whatever they'e called) and/ or increase grid points in the same way Puppet Warp does this so as I drag around I control a tigher & smaller space? You're right about the puppet warp, (thanks for spotting that) I've just checked in CS6 and it wasnt available because I had the Vector mask I'd created, selected. Doh!Tried the puppet warp and it still unfortunately doesnt do what I need it to compared to just using warp - it seems the handles on the corners (with handles in between and more of them) are what I'm really after.

Puppet warp gives a different result unfortunately. Puppet warp is good under certain circumstances, warp in others, but thanks for the response.Puppet warp with handles I guess is what I'm after.