Tips & tricks to remember from tuts

Notes from tutorials:

  • For animating characters: fx puppet – add pins to object
  • cel animation looks better for some assets -animdessin
  • parallax effect: make layer 3d,
  • f9 easy ease in shortcut
  • toggles & switches: alpha inverted matte to cut out text or shape above
  • Ai pine trees: triangle – distort&transform – roughen – change size and detail accordingly – arc warp out for broader base then you can manually distort it thinner etc. Group and change for easy quick forest
  • textevo
  • walk cycle plugin duik
  • buttcapper plugin for making square end caps of lines/shapes round in one click. Alt click for closed shapes
  • ease copy: paste one layers ease in keyframes onto another layer

Interesting ways to use text animators for other symbols such as periods, dashes:

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