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Remember that the puppet tool initial mesh is generated from the alpha of the layer that is active when you apply the first puppet pin, so it could be problematic to have layers that have very different outlines in the timeremapped comp. The best solution i know for this is to make a fully solid layer when applying the first pin to force the genearation of a puppet mesh that fills the whole layer, this ofcource also looses some of the deformation beauty of the puppet tool, but you will never get cutoff layers either.

Maybe other have another better solution?

- Robert

2013/3/26 Anders Sundstedt <sundstedt@hotmail.com>

Thanks Chris that are great tips. Would the time-remapping you have explained work though for comps like that with puppet tool?

-Anders

From: Chris Zwar

Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 12:26 PM

To: After Effects Mail List

Subject: Re: [AE] Replace PSD footage easily?

Hi,

I generally use time-remapping in these situations. Create a pre-comp for each component that may change, e.g. a pre comp for clothes, hair, eyes, mouth shapes etc etc. Sequence all of your artwork in the pre comp at 1 second intervals, and then assemble all of the pre comps in your main comp and apply time-remapping with hold keyframes.

Then simply adjust the time remapping value to display the image in each pre comp.

You can use this technique for animation (e.g. eye movements and mouth movements) as well as static images such as clothing.

The other advantage of this approach is that you can set up your pre comps at a 'master' size and then re-size and align your artwork inside it. So if your artwork is hand-drawn and scanned in, then it will vary in size from piece to piece. You can adjust and align all of the images in the pre-comp so that they will match each other in the main comp.

-Chris

On 26/03/2013, at 9:21 PM, "Anders Sundstedt" <sundstedt@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I often need multiple versions of a .PSD file, for example a character to be used in an animation, may need different clothes and hair styles, these PSD files have many layers.

I need to use the same AE project, I only want to swap the PSD, let’s say for example a different version of the PSD for each scene (one AE project file for each scene).

Is there an easy way to do this without a lot of hassle, not having to rename the original PSD and having to replace it every time for each time I work on an AE project?

I would like to know about a solution that does not require making another copy of the project etc.

I have read in older ae-list posts about for example exporting and search/replace in an XML file, but there must be a better way?

Thanks