All language subtitles for Stop-Motion Paper Wrinkle Tutorial (inglés_ASR)

hey there hope you guys are doing well

i'm gonna just hop on here really quick

and do a few tutorials

on a few little things that are inside

of the death defeated series maybe some

of the paper regal things

uh maybe how i built some scenes out

real kind of quick overview of how to do

things maybe it'll stir some ideas in

your head

and let you try some new things so the

first thing i'm going to try to do is

talk about how to do the like paper

wrinkle type of stuff and it's not

uh perfect or flawless but it still kind

of gives you the illusion that there's

some paper

paper wrinkling up and it feels a little

more tangible so

i'm going to cover that i'm also going

to cover maybe some falling roses and a

few other things

maybe even some of the snake movement so

just a few little things to give you an

inside look at how this is all working

so

i'm going to just keep this project open

so that we can sort of see

what's going on and we're going to cover

a few things first so the really the

first thing i did was

um pretty low budget i i took my phone

and i mounted it to actually this

microphone

stand here kind of pointing down but you

could maybe use anything

and i just took some overhead shots of a

piece of paper

wrinkled up in stages completely you

know maybe balled up

and then i'd unwrinkle a little bit take

a picture unwrinkle it a little bit take

a picture

and a little bit more probably about

maybe eight to 12 times and

really it depends on how accurate or how

long you want that animation to be but i

just wanted to be

pretty quick and sort of stop motion

esque

so and that's really what i did so the

way i'm going to do that i'm just going

to go ahead and open up photoshop

so let's say you took a lot of pictures

and

you need to kind of piece those together

so i think my

final look let me pull up the actual

project here

um and see what i came up with so paper

animations wrinkle one

uh so let's go with wrinkle two so these

are all just different stages of the

actual like unwrinkling process

all right so these these were these are

actually after photoshop but again

um the the original just looked pretty

uh basic i just think i took it on top

of my mouse pad so that i had a nice

dark background

so that's maybe one thing that you want

to do first is have that nice dark

background

behind your piece of paper but once you

do that you don't even have to have it

really

still you could do it see this is kind

of what it looked like here

and so it went slowly like that so

um pretty janky you know not enough

pretty low budget

but that was sort of the speed there

so then i took that into photoshop so

let's open up photoshop and i want to

keep that the same screen

same size as my screen so i'm going to

do 1920 by 1080 at 300

hit create then i basically just brought

those files in here so

um if i can drag all these at one time

let's see there we go

and i'm just going to hit enter a few

times

to lock those in all right so something

like that

and then uh i'm going to actually move

these in order

definitely want my first one on top so i

can see something

the full animation here this is the top

one

one two three four five all right so you

got them all in order there and so then

i uh pretty much just blew this up so i

took all of those

and highlighted them got my transform

tool uh you can do command t or i think

you can actually if you highlight them

you can just

scale it up so then i scaled it up all

together

nice and even and i just wanted to fill

that frame completely

so something something like that is kind

of what i wanted wanted to go for

okay um from here i think i tweaked the

color so i just added some adjustment

layers

so i did a hue and saturation and turned

that all the way down then i believe

maybe i grabbed a

curves or levels uh we'll just do levels

for now

and kind of add some more contrast to

this whole thing

something like that and then i just

started exporting these

one by one so i would do command s and

save this out as another

file so we'll just say you know paper

one and then i can turn that off

and i'm saving these actually as png so

then i would go into this background

because i don't really want this

background on here

so i'll start to take that out so the

way i do that is

i think i use the magic wand tool and if

you click this

and you try to delete it it's probably

not going to work because it's going to

say it's not editable

and that's because this is a smart

object so all you need to do

is right click over here and go to

rasterize layer

okay and so then i kind of start

clicking through here and you can change

your

tolerance level of your magic wand tool

up here

that way it'll it'll kind of recognize a

few more of those colors

about to go a little bit stronger there

there are plenty of other ways to do

this you can use

like a lasso tool even like a magnetic

tool could also work well

so let's see if i can find that maybe

even quick selection let's see

and i'm holding down shift as i click

through this that actually works pretty

well

so yeah just just like that right there

is a good way then i just delete it

and if i hit command d to deselect it

you can see now i have this transparent

background on there

alright so then i would save that as a

file and i want to keep these all

um sort of the same file so if i say

paper zero zero one

paper zero zero two you wanna make sure

you keep that same sequence so that

after effects will recognize it later as

a

uh as a image sequence okay so make my

way through that again

and you can kind of go through and

select all of these

maybe this quick selection tool is not

working great for this one so let's try

the magnetic tool

uh let's see it's the lasso magnetic

lasso

so you can just kind of click and drag

and it sort of

recognizes your edge there

you might not get it right the first

time but that's that's okay

close enough just do this little here

and click that last dot there and delete

that

and we'll just right click on that and

go to rasterize layer and now i can

delete that big background

all right so you may need to clean that

up just a little bit i'm just going to

do that with the eraser tool

clean up my corners here this is a quick

and dirty

way to get these um created so

you get the idea walk through all of

those images get rid of that background

make sure it's sort of filling your

entire frame save those as a

very similar file name so that when you

bring it into after effects

it recognizes as a png so if i go to

after effects

we're going to make a new folder command

let's actually click this little button

down here and we'll call this paper

and i'm going to do command i to import

and if i go to

that folder basically what happens is it

we're going to do that wrinkle let's see

maybe wrinkle three

yeah so this one right here sort of goes

in these steps

this is how it started here which is not

really what you want i think what i did

actually

to get a few more steps is i would um

use some of these same ones and i would

just maybe

move it in different spots or transform

it so it looks like it

has a few more frames so i have all of

these labeled just simple one two three

four all the way through nine

and so if i put my mouse on top of this

i can make sure i wanna select to

select the importer jpeg sequence

i guess i did save these out as jpegs

because i'm going to use

the um black values as an aluma map so

um we'll have imported jpeg so it'll

it'll

bring this in as a sequence so if i hit

import

i have this little icon with this a few

different pieces of paper

and that will create the uh the sequence

so now if i drag this into a composition

we'll just drop it down let's see

we'll drop it right there so now if i

hit spacebar it

pieces this all together as a one long

sequence

all right so this is obviously going

very fast and a little bit too much

so what i want to do is i'm going to go

to composition settings by right

clicking

composition settings and we'll keep this

1920 by 1080

24 it's fine we could probably actually

make that like 12

frames so it goes a little slower but we

can change that by time remapping

uh now i need to change my timing so

we're gonna make this like

five seconds long okay and hit okay

zoom out a little bit and here i want to

right click on this i'm gonna go to time

enable time remapping

and that's basically going to give me

these little points where i can

change the speed of this animation

so we'll push this maybe to two seconds

and i'm going to slide this all the way

down here

so now if i hit spacebar sort of does

sort of a stop motion

vibe just like that

okay so it's probably a little too slow

so i'm gonna speed that up some

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okay a little faster

all right i think i want my

first frame to be black like that i'm

actually going to add a

background command y for a new solid

and we'll just make this a black

background because if it's not

if you don't have that in there this

actually isn't black it's transparent

so we want to make sure we turn that as

a black layer there we go

so now it's all black and it transforms

to that right there

all right so that's basically the paper

fold right there

so we're going to stick to something

somewhat simple as far as making

something reveal

on this on this piece of paper so to do

that i'm going to

just bring in the graphic that we have

for the main series

this graphic let's do let's do this main

graphic here

okay so here's our main graphic and we

will make our actual

this will be sort of our composition

that will be our

um sort of our main scene so we'll just

call this uh

logo reveal all right 1920 by 1080 we'll

do that

frame rate at 24 and we'll make our

length of it maybe 15 seconds i'm gonna

hit okay

so then i'm going to drag in my new

paper

uh composition right here so we'll call

this paper

reveal all right and i'm just hitting

enter to change the names of those

and so i can drag that down here so we

have our paper reveal right there

perfect now we may want to extend the

end of this because it sort of runs out

so i'm going to double click on that

and we're going to go in here and extend

this and so this is going to stay

locked on this scene since we did the

time remapping

it's going to stay right there the whole

time okay

perfect so logo reveal here we go and

now i'm going to drag in my new

really whatever this graphic is so this

could be a total

this could be another animation this

could be a video file could be really

whatever so

actually you know let's drag this let's

make a new

uh composition and we'll call this

we'll call this image all right and

we'll hit ok

and so i'm going to drag my main graphic

into that image

and it's obviously a 4k file so we're

going to scale that down by 50

and i'm scaling that down by hitting s

on the keyboard and if i maybe made it

let's make it a little bit bigger so we

get something like that uh so this is

good so now we're going to go back

to our logo reveal and now we're going

to drag in this image and i did that so

that i can easily

swap out that image if i need to so i'm

going to click and drag this down here

we'll put this on the bottom all right

and so now i want to use this paper

reveal

as sort of the the matte that will

reveal it

and i'm probably going to end up going

back and removing this

black color here so let's uh let's take

a look real quick and see what we did so

i'm going to take the image

and now i want to use this paper reveal

as some sort of map so i'm going to make

this a luma mat because i want all the

black values

to be uh completely hidden so let's try

this so i'm going to do

luma or someone to click on the none and

if you don't see this track matt you can

click

on this toggle switches and modes button

so i'm going to click on here i'm going

to go to uh we'll go to luma map

first and try that yep so now you can

see how this is sort of coming through

right here and it's uh

showing our background so you probably

do want to do some sort

of um transparent background on that so

that it it doesn't do this because it's

it's revealing a few

um it's gray values and so it's making

that some so somewhat transparent so

in order to fix that i think an easy way

i'm going to go into the paper reveal

and actually turn off this background

for now problem is

our image sequence here is a jpeg

sequence and so

uh it's going to have this black

background but i think an easy way to

get rid of this just

kind of quick and dirty is to use an

extract

effects when we go to effect and keying

i think you can go to extract and i can

bump up this black point value just a

little bit i don't want to get into

these grays

but i do want to get rid of this black

so i think i just bumped this up just a

little bit

just like that and it pretty much gets

rid of it i want to go a little bit more

and try to clean up those edges some

just like that

and i think i can maybe bump up the

softness a little bit let's see you know

i don't want to do that

maybe they will that's probably good so

maybe now i can actually add a

simple choker so i'm going to go to

effect and

matte and simple choker and let's see if

i can get maybe a little bit more clean

edges there we go so now you can see we

have these nice clean edges

and it's looking pretty good versus that

there so that's looking

it's looking pretty good that kind of

solves our problem i think okay

perfect so we'll go with that for now

uh so i'm going to go back to the logo

reveal and we want to change this from

luma matte

over to alpha so with luma uh again it's

it's

um revealing everything that is some

sort of white value

and hiding everything that is at black

value but with the alpha matte

it's going to um hide anything that is

transparent

and show anything that actually has the

image some do alpha map and now it's a

perfect

sort of fold out there yeah this fold is

looking good now it's nice and clean

problem is it it doesn't look wrinkly

and it doesn't look really affected by

any means it's just a simple reveal so

how do we get that

paper texture on there so i'm going to

do next is i'm going to take that paper

reveal and i'm going to duplicate it

command d

and i'm going to turn that layer on and

now i'm going to use some blending modes

to

blend it to that background so i'm just

going to hit shift

and plus and minus will will cycle

through these modes right here

but these are all just types of blending

modes and it changes the way it sort of

blends together so let's do a

shift plus and i'm cycling through until

i see something that i like

so you can start seeing some of this

texture coming through

my best bet is probably going to be that

multiply but we can sort of cycle

through the rest and see

what comes out of it but i think

multiply is going to be where we want to

sit on that one

yep so let's just go to multiply that

looks good

okay so as it sort of unfolds it's got a

little bit more texture to it

so the next thing i did uh is i had the

actual image in the background sort of

get affected by

that paper and so you can see all these

lines are really clean

and they're not really moving at all but

which wouldn't really be the case

seeing as this would be super wrinkled

and all messed up so the way i did that

was i added a displacement map to

our main image so i'm going to click an

image

and i'm going to go to layer oh sorry

i'm going to go to effect

and distort i'm going to go down to a

displacement map right here

and so now i can pick a layer for it to

use

as the displace and so for that i'm

going to go to where it says image

so right now it's saying i'm going to

take your image layer and use that as a

displacement so you can sort of see it

displaces it based on that color but i'm

going to go to image and i'm going to

go to paper reveal it can be any one of

those because they're the same thing

this is looking good so now we can start

using these values here to change

how it displaces it i think i need to

maybe change this let's let's play with

these values a little bit

let's maybe move both of these to

luminance since we're dealing with white

and black

values and let's see what that does

not a ton difference but close enough so

i just do this just a little bit

so i'm going to maybe put this like 10

and 10

okay something like that and

now it's sort of you can see that text

is moving

back and forth and sort of looks a

little bit like it's it's

bent with that paper that might be a

little bit strong so let's maybe move it

to seven

and seven okay and

so that's looking pretty good and i'm

probably going to want to have it

dial back a little bit as it gets a

little still

okay so the way i'm going to do that set

some keyframes so i'm going to

go to the horizontal this displacement

here and

click these little stop watches and that

will create a keyframe

if you click on your layer and hit u

it'll show you those keyframes right

there

and so that's sort of the max we want so

i want that to stay

right about there but my animation ends

about

there so we'll have it

go from here to we'll just push it down

to like one

okay so it's still maybe a tad bit

displaced but not a ton so the next

thing

the next problem we have is that it uh

gradually goes down and sort of shifts

in a weird

unrealistic way so for that i'm going to

just highlight these i'm going to right

click i'm going to go to

toggle hold keyframe and that should

make it

pretty much just go from one to the next

okay so it happens pretty

pretty quick but let's watch that back

and see what happens

okay so it sort of looks like that paper

is moving

with it which is nice now i can offset

these just a little bit

so that it's not they're not moving at

the same time

okay so it's not perfect but it's it's

fairly close so that's looking pretty

good all right so the next thing i

needed to do

was this up here is not accurate so

if the paper is unrolling so if we go

back and look at this

this paper is unrolling then everything

back here is

uh is the back right so that's not

really gonna show us

any the actual image so the next thing i

did this was sort of a rotoscoping type

of job but

basically what i did is i take this

paper reveal i'm gonna duplicate it

again

and we can turn these layers off focus

on this one

so now i want to basically cut out just

this roll here so this part is going to

be very slow

and so i'm probably going to speed this

up but i'll go through some of it at

first

so let's go to maybe the first one where

it reveals out so let's maybe

come down here a little bit and see what

happens so we want to let's start let's

start right here okay so this is where

we basically want to cut out everything

that's sort of wrinkled up

and and then we'll just have this

section by itself and it'll look more

like it's

unfolding so i'm going to click on my

main paper layer here this paper reveal

and so we're going to draw some pretty

jagged edges around this and this part

is going to be a bit

slow just because it's sort of

monotonous and but just sort of the

process we have to deal with

in order to make this work so the first

thing i'm going to do is i hit g on the

keyboard for my pen tool

and i'm going to draw just a basic

edges around here and now i can come in

and start making some jagged edges for

this paper

so i'm going to make these somewhat

broad because these are going to change

uh non-stop throughout this entire

process but i'm keeping it pretty much

jagged the whole time

and we're just making it pretty rough

for now you can get in there

if you really wanted to make it perfect

and get these just right but

this is for more examples sake and then

we'll close our mask

with clicking on that first point that

we made

all right so it looks pretty good we can

also go into the mask settings here

and click on add and go to subtract so

it's going to take all that out so now

we have our wrinkle piece here

so we want to set a keyframe for this so

i'm going to go to the mask settings and

turn on the mask path

and click that stopwatch right there and

so now that's our first frame

and so i'm going to i'm going to

actually go back

one frame until it moves a little bit

there might be a few frames where

nothing happens that's just because we

use the time remap

and we stretch those frames out a good

bit so now uh we can see that it's moved

so i'm going to double click

on one of these points and then

highlight to my entire mask and now i

can drag this down

and figure out where these points should

go so all this

really looks good i'll be making move up

some of these so i'm going to click off

of that mask again

and now i can maybe move up some of

these points but for the most part

that's exactly where we want it to start

so we're going to move forward a frame

okay so i'm going to double click on all

of this here and just move this up

this is pretty close so now we can fine

tune these points

so you want to work your way through

this entire thing

cutting out where these go you may need

to click and move some of these points

to see what's going on with this paper

but this is about right here

and again this is going to go very fast

so it does not have to be perfect

you can make it perfect but you'll need

a lot of time

in hindsight i probably would have used

some sort of different piece of paper

where the background was

a different color so that i could just

key out that background

but that's sort of hindsight there

all right so we're going to keep moving

a few frames and from here i'm going to

speed up the process but again you move

a keyframe change your

your mask to mask match the

roll out piece here and then we will

pick up once i get all this

this part done

all right so i got my key frames done so

i'm going to play this back and see what

happens

all right so we can see it sort of moves

and does its own thing but the problem

is it's not quite

right it's not really moving with the

paper and that's because these keyframes

are trying to you know between here that

the keyframes are moving from

one place to the next but this is more

of a stop motion and so in order to

fix that we need to make sure that these

are set to toggle hold keyframes so when

i click and write

or sorry i'm going to click and drag to

select all of these

and i'm going to right click and go to

toggle hold keyframe

so it just it's more of a step motion

and it should

follow that wrinkle process

there okay so let's play that back

all right so that should be the uh back

of the paper the whole time as it

unrolls

and so now let's uh turn this solo at

this solo it's going to turn that back

off

and now i have my paper here but i need

to make sure that this

is not set to multiply so i'm going to

go to where it says multiply i'm just

going to put that back to normal i

believe

and so now it kind of looks like it's

unrolling that piece of paper

and obviously the edges aren't quite

perfect but

you get the idea so i'm going to play

that back and see what it looks like

all right so now we're getting somewhere

so let's kind of play that back again

that's looking pretty good

alright so it uh you know it gives the

illusion that that is an actual piece of

printed paper

and gives you that effect right there so

for the series i did basically that

for most of the animations in order for

it to give you that that vibe right

there okay so let's go through something

else and talk about how to

do a few of these other things so in one

of the scenes we have

some falling roses here so we'll just

talk how to do that really quick it's

pretty simple

so if we look back at scene one really

that's it's sort of the same thing over

and over again so we have this paper

sort of reveal

uh and then um the same thing is

happening with

the text piece of paper as well as the

jesus image in the background

they're sort of unrolling the same way

to give you that that same effect and

they're these aren't perfect just

because it's happening so fast i didn't

do

all of that process but especially with

that one that rolls out

it just it just really works well to do

that sort of cut out

um so for scene one uh there's really

not a whole lot more to

talk about with this scene except for

these roses so we'll talk about how to

do that

so what i did i believe i found this

rose image

on raw pixel dot com let me see if i can

find the original

so the original is right here so i'm

going to right click on that and go to

open that with photoshop and so from

here i think i just

cut out this background so do command j

to duplicate that

don't need that old one anymore and now

i think i can i sort of had to

paint this out to get it just right

because if i try to do a magic wand

there's so much white and it sort of

blends here i had to

go in and cut those edges out nice and

neat so

once i had it cut out i ended up with

the stem and this other small rose as

well as the rose head

and that way i could sort of animate i

sort of just cut this rose out by itself

that way i could maybe animate that one

just a little bit by itself by sort of

moving it like that

but just using your eraser tool eraser

tool going through

and getting this nice and neat on these

edges here was a little bit of a time

killer but it actually

turned out okay and then i actually

added uh some

so hey this is the original i added some

levels

to just bump up the contrast there on

that entire image

all right so that was pretty much it um

and that gave me these two images here

we don't need to go into having those

separate you can just save that out as a

as a png just make sure you have a

transparent background

i also separated it too so i could have

that red on top of this image

reveal in another project but you could

actually double click on that rows top

if you've separated it

and do a color overlay and maybe we can

do like a multiply

and you can change that to like a you

know bright red or something like that

okay so that's that's basically it so

then save that out as a png

and we'll go back into after effects so

um down here we have some falling roses

you can see

so this is sort of my main falling roses

scene

right here okay and so the way i did

this was

these are actually the same composition

duplicated

and sort of moved in z space a little

bit

so if i go to my active camera and go to

the left

you can see i have a bunch of rose

compositions

there just moving back and forth

okay but first i just made one

composition of a rose falling so

if i double click on one of these layers

i'll show you what i

what i've got going on so i have my rows

and i basically have it falling from the

top

to the bottom just like that and in

order to do that let me just make a new

composition i made a nice

long big composition so i'm going to

click on

new comp and we'll make this something

like uh

the width can be pretty small let's go

with like 350

and my height will be something like

3500 maybe something like that

and our time 15 seconds is probably

plenty but we'll just do a little bit

more

and so now i have a nice long

composition here and i'm going to bring

in my rows let me find that

in here these are my two pieces to my

rows

i'm going to connect my top of the rows

to the

stem of the rose and now i can hit s on

the keyboard and scale that down

just like that and if you wanted to add

some color to that

rose top we can add a tint

just like here change our white values

to like that red value i think would

actually work

all right so it's pretty pretty bold red

we'll cut that back a little bit

um and that's that's pretty much it so

i'm going to turn this on to

now we can see we have a nice long

composition with our rose

and i think i actually connected this to

a null object

but you don't really have to do that we

can take the rows

and have it fall down just like this so

the first thing i want to do is take my

rows all the way to the top out of the

frame and we can hit

uh p on the keyboard for position and

click on a

little stopwatch there i'm going to fast

forward all the way to maybe like 20

seconds here

and then i'm going to click and drag

this all the way to the bottom

all right so we can play that back just

to see what our speed is like

and you can see that's the speed that's

falling it's probably a little bit fast

so you maybe want to spread that out

even farther to get it to go a little

bit slower

but you get the idea so from here then i

can take my rotation tool so i'm gonna

hit r on the keyboard for rotation

click on that stopwatch actually i want

this keyframe to be back at the

beginning

and we can have it just do a small

rotation

something like that okay

so it's just going to slowly rotate

pretty simple okay so from that point i

would go into

make another composition close all these

folders down

so we'll make another composition and

we'll call this falling roses

and we want this to be 1920 by 1080

and 25 seconds is fine that's all good

hit okay and we'll drag in

our new rose composition here

which sits right there right there it

goes

okay so this point i just take this rose

and i'm going to actually make this a 3d

layer by clicking this button

here and now i can duplicate it with

command d

and now i can click and drag this make

sure i get my

cursor right on top of that z axis and

then i can push this

sort of in z space and just randomly

move these around

so i also want to change some of the

timing just so they're not all exactly

the same

i can duplicate that again maybe move it

over here and i could

also right click and go to transform

and flip horizontal so that it's not

exactly the same

facing the same way and you could also

go in and make

more of these rose compositions by

changing the

you know the angle of the rotation or

the speed

and then bring those into this

composition but you basically yeah just

making 3d layers and then we want to

move them

in space so that they are sort of

falling on their own just like that

so we'll throw in one more just for

kicks

and maybe we'll push this way to the

front

okay

so this is uh passing a little bit too

close so i'm going to maybe

slide this this way let's actually let's

go this way

press that one more that way so i just

wanted to keep a nice

even space there all right so you

basically do that same thing

and duplicate as get as many roses as

you want to

from there i created a null object so

i'm going to go to layer

null object and i want to make that a 3d

layer and so this is sort of going to be

my

pretend camera and so i'm going to link

all of these

compositions to that null object so i

click on all those

use this little pick whip drag it up

here

and now i can take this and have it sort

of push

in so it looks like i'm sort of

traveling through the roses so i'm going

to hit p on the keyboard to set that

keyframe

actually i want this to be the beginning

there we go

drag forward here let's go with that

just as an example so now i'm going to

take my z position of my keyframe or my

position

and push it forward so i can click and

just drag this number

to the left or i can use this axis here

and slide that forward like that you can

hold down shift and it'll go a little

faster

so if i play that back once these roses

come into frame

the camera should be getting closer to

them

it's kind of hard to tell but if you had

a whole lot more of these so if i just

duplicated these

and maybe slid these down this way

now we can sort of get a sense of moving

forward

all right so that's basically the gist

of how

this scene worked so i'll go back to

scene one

we have our roses falling down

and then i took one layer i believe it's

just maybe one of these layers here

it's really the same layer duplicated as

you can see there

and one is just pushed a lot closer to

the screen and i added some blur

to it so it looks like it's uh sort of

out of focus

from the camera just to give it a little

bit more of a realistic

depth vibe all right so that sort of

covers that scene i will go through one

more thing

let me go back to my preview controls

and take a look at all the scenes here

the other piece of this that is fairly

different

is the snake and how it's sort of moving

around it's

not really accurate but it again just

sort of gives a nice

animated vibe for that so let's take a

quick look at that

and we'll go through how we did that so

i think that's scene number two so let's

open up scene two here we go right here

all right so if we play this back

actually let me solos that snake out so

we can see it

all right so if i play this back

you can see that snake is sort of

slithering if you will

okay it's very very subtle

but gives you just enough of a vibe that

that snake is alive so

the way i did that is took that snake

layer again that was from raw pixel as

well

i believe it is let's take a look and

see if i can find the

original this is the original here

so again just cut that out from raw

pixel to just have the

the background there and so that gives

me

the that gives me this image here

and so i can drop this into a new

composition so now i have this snake

layer

not moving so now what i want to do is

add we're going to use the puppet tool

in order to move this thing around a

little bit

so i'm going to put my playhead at the

very beginning and now i want to use the

puppet tool and i'm not going to go into

a lot of detail about the puppet tool

because it's um

there's a lot of features on it and

little things you can tweak to make it

perfect but

i'm not a pro at it i know just enough

to make things move a little bit

so the puppet tools up here this little

pin option here i'm going to click on

that

and you have a few different options i'm

not going to go into many of these

because honestly i don't really know

what they do exactly but i'm going to go

to really just this position tool here

all right and so now we sort of want to

click where our joints would be and the

snake doesn't

really have technical joints where we

want to just

pick out a few spots so i do want this

little spot to move here so i'm going to

click

where this pin is so when i first click

i think it's going to take a second for

it to

guess is where your your mesh should go

for your snake so let's click and just

give it a second to

figure it out so there we go so once it

does that now we have an

idea of where this snake is and this

this is because this is a png layer so

this is the only thing that it can

really find which is

a lot more beneficial for making this

thing move so now i'm going to click

through

and just keeping it right down the

center here i don't want to make a ton

but just maybe a few points

that mesh will update as we go um

but this will just give you an idea how

this works

okay so somewhere like that and we'll

come down maybe here

here here and here

all right so now we have all these

little points and so down on my layer

if i hit u on the keyboard i should see

a whole bunch of keyframes and these are

all the pins

inside of my on my puppet

so now i want to move maybe to

second number two and now we can go and

move these

points that we made all around so i

think i need to click on this mesh again

to get those points to show up

and now i can click and move these so i

don't want to put any more pins on here

i just want to move these

put my cursor right on top of those pins

i can move this

a little bit here and just kind of

move it just like a little puppet

and mine was a pretty much just random

okay so i can go maybe to second number

four

and we're gonna basically go backwards

you can see it's sort of slithering

around a little bit and there's ways to

you know

you can see that his tongue isn't really

moving the right way i believe there's

ways to use some of these other tools

like the starch tool and things to

sort of lock that into place um

with with the tool but again i haven't

really gone into that too much

so you just may need to mess around with

that some but these are just the basics

so

uh now that's kind of rendered we can

watch that back and you can see it

moving around a little bit

now one thing i did was sort of uh

move these points around a little bit so

they're not all

transforming exactly the same way so i

may take like a chunk of them

and maybe slide them down this way slow

some of them down

just really kind of randomize these a

little bit

so that they don't all move exactly the

same

that just gives it a little bit more of

an organic vibe

that's basically it uh so from there i

took that into

that scene number two i broke that into

some pieces so that it feels like a

really big snake

and you can see here the snake is

the same snake but now it's feels like

it's sort of wrapping around this whole

scene way over here and that's that's

really it

as far as using the puppet tool so there

are obviously a bunch of other

techniques we could go through

in this video but really a lot of it is

using that paper wrinkle

using 3d layers and 3d cameras which we

can get into another time

but those are really the ones that are

sort of specific

to this project that i thought might be

interesting and helpful to learn

so so that'll do it for today i hope

that was helpful i hope you learned

something and you can apply it to

some future projects thanks a lot

you