Animating with the Puppet Tool
Deformation with the Puppet Tool
After Effects includes a number of effective tools to deform footage. These are related to rotoscoping and paint inasmuch as they can also involve selections, manual or tracked animation, and, in the case of Liquify, even paint strokes. Among the most useful:
Corner Pin skews a 2D layer to make it appear aligned with a 3D plane, useful for billboard and screen replacement, among others. The After Effects tracker and, more usefully, mocha-AE can produce a Corner Pin track (Chapter ...
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