I'm animating a character in After Effects. I'm using a technique I learned from Daniel Gies. When I'm animating limbs this is what i do, I take the limb layer (e.g. arm layer) I place some puppetpins, then I create null objects and connect them to the pins via an expression then I parent each null to the one above.
In his tutorial he uses this code -
n=thisComp.layer("name of null")
nullpos=n.toComp(n.anchorPoint);
fromComp(nullpos):
But this doesnt work for me. It deforms my illsutrator and shape layers beyond repair. The comments under the tut also reveal that many people get errors with this code however, I received no errors.
So i used this instead -
L=thisComp.layer("name of null");
L.toWorld(L.anchorPoint);
and it works.
The problem is after I have done this I wanted to move my leg somewhere wlese in the composition and scale it but when I do it goes all weird and the null object becomes out of place.
What am I doing wrong?
ILLUSTRATOR and AE CS6