Parenting is a way to group multiple layers within the same composition inside After Effects. In this lesson, Chris Meyer shows how to set up a parenting chain, discusses what makes a good parent, and demonstrates several techniques using Parenting such as creating a title animation with a minimum number of keyframes, building a geometric construct, and bringing an anthropomorphic robot arm to life. Sidebar topics include avoiding a scaling gotcha with parenting, and creating abstract backgrounds using the Fractal Noise effect.

Topics include:
    •    making Parenting connections
    •    using Null Objects
    •    crafting anthropomorphic-style animations
    •    avoiding problems with non-uniform scaling
    •    animating Fractal Noise

Approx. Run Time:  1hr, 37 mins.
 

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