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Participant
February 8, 2018
Question

Clipping Masks for semi-transparent layers

  • February 8, 2018
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Hi Character Animator Team!

I love the new features and I really like to work with this software.

I have a new project: I want to animate a group of dringking glasses , they will dance to music. The glasses are the heads and they have liquid inside. I applied a dangle behavior to the liquid, so the liquid can bounce around inside the glass when it moves. I also appiled a clipping mask to the liquid, so it only is visible inside the glass. But the glass ist semi-transparent, so the mask is visible behind the glass-layer. Any idea to solve this problem?

RED is the clipping mask

GREEN is the liquid

PSD file:

CH puppet:

recorder window: (I want the red mask to be invisible)

Kind regards!

Christian

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Participant
February 12, 2018

I worked around the problem by exporting 3 versions of the scene:

a) the puppet without the liquid layer

b) the liquid layer solo

c) the clipping mask layer solo

Then I composed the layers in AE.

It would be cool to be able to hide the clipping mask layer to the scene.

Christian

tiffanyl14655871
Inspiring
January 2, 2020

This is exactly what I was looking for Thank you!