Photoshop and AE: Animating with the Puppet Tool

Richard Harrington
RHED Pixel
Washington District of Columbia USA

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In this video tutorial Richard Harrington shows a quick technique used to animate and selectively warp an image inside of Adobe After Effect. Richard uses masking and refine edges to prepare the animation inside Photoshop.

This tutorial is also available as a podcast.

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Re: Animating with the Puppet Tool
by Bernadette Jarrard

Thank you for posting this.

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Re: Animating with the Puppet Tool
by Richard Harrington

Glad you guys liked it.

Richard M. Harrington, PMP

Author: From Still to Motion, Video Made on a Mac, Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and Motion Graphics with Adobe Creative Suite 5 Studio Techniques

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Re: Animating with the Puppet Tool
by Mike Ferraro

Wow...This was GREAT! Thank You Richard Harrington. I have used the Puppet Tool in AE, but never in conjunction with Photoshop before...very cool. I also learned several new tricks on masking and zoom control.

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Re: Animating with the Puppet Tool
by Giulio Galinos

Absolutely fantastic I learnt so much in this tute big thanks to Richard Harrington cant wait for the next one!!!!!

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Re: Tutorial: Animating with the Puppet Tool
by Giulio Galinos

Great Tutorial I found this very useful, looking forward to the next one ;)

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