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danielj35706707
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December 5, 2018
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Can I make a shape follow a particular part of a moving path?

  • December 5, 2018
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Hi everyone,

I'm putting together a short animation of a character walking with a briefcase. The arms and legs have been animated with paths inside of shape layers and the briefcase has been added as a vector graphic. I've gotten as far as parenting the briefcase to the arm (which is parented to the torso). This results in the briefcase moving the distance of the character but nothing else. I want the briefcase to follow the end of the character's arm (as illustrated in image 2). Could any of y'all, with your super AE skillz, help a noob out?

Ta

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    解決に役立った回答 ScooterD76

    How To Create Animated Arrows In After Effects - YouTube

    In this tutorial you attatch a null to a path, just skip the rest. Should work for ya

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    Legend
    December 6, 2018

    How To Create Animated Arrows In After Effects - YouTube

    In this tutorial you attatch a null to a path, just skip the rest. Should work for ya

    Sjaani
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    Community Expert
    December 5, 2018

    It's definitely possible. Do you have any Transform settings on the briefcase? Which might be stopping it from following the arm at any point?

    danielj35706707
    Participant
    December 6, 2018

    Hey Sjaani,

    Yes; I scaled it to be in proportion to the character after importing it from illustrator.

    Sjaani
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    Community Expert
    December 6, 2018

    Scaling should be fine, I was thinking more along the lines of positioning keyframes which may have stopped it.

    I've just recreated a basic animation with the torso, arm and briefcase set up with the same layout and Parenting as your images show and I'm not seeing any issues such as the briefcase stopping.

    Might need to see those layers twirled down in case there's something someone else can pick up