After Effects Puppet Pin Tool (How It Really Works)
After Effects Puppet Pin Tool — mesh deformation, bend and starch pins, trace masks, and motion recording explained.
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00:00 Puppet Pin Tool Overview
00:28 Adding Deform Pins & Creating Basic Movement
00:46 Understanding the Mesh (Show Mesh & Stability)
01:48 Puppet Engine: Advanced vs Legacy
02:21 Mesh Rotation Refinement Explained
03:10 Mesh Expansion & Transparent Option
03:47 Mesh Density (Detail vs Performance)
04:38 Auto-Traced Shapes & Automatic Outline Creation
05:13 Trace Mask Settings (Alpha, Blur, Tolerance, Threshold)
07:00 Applying Mask Reference to Puppet Mesh
07:52 Deform Pins & Keyframes
08:55 Starch Pin vs Bend Pin Explained
09:40 Advanced Pin Controls (Rotate & Scale Behavior)
10:20 Puppet Overlap Pin Tool
10:58 Recording Puppet Pin Movement
11:36 Smoothing & Drop Deformation
12:01 Show Mesh While Recording
12:17 Animation Example
12:22 Puppet Pin Animation (Final Adjustments)
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