Can you puppet warp transparent animated images?

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January 25, 2021
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I have some run cycles that I imported from photoshop with transparent backgrounds. I would love if I could give them a bouncing effect with the puppet warp but the mesh seems to only attach to the first frame of the animation and not the animation as a whole. It is all one layer as a video file with a transparent background from photoshop. Whenever I try to warp it gets all chopped and broken up.

How to

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Mylenium

Legend

It works as it always has and is designed to work. What you want will require to use a more elaborate setup using traditional distortion effects and conventional keyframing of the layer positions.

Mylenium

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Rick Gerard

Community Expert

When you apply the first puppet pin the mesh is created. If the object you are trying to distort moves in any way the mesh will break. You have to do all your puppet pin animation on a static image, still frame, or a shape layer with no shape layer animation.

After you make your puppet layer dance around the way you want you can pre-compose the layer moving all attributes and then animate the transform properties of the nested comp (pre-comp).

P.M.B

Legend

I'm guessing you imported it as an image sequence? You probably need to precompose then apply the warping to the composition.

~Gutterfish

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