I work with dozens of 2d animators (myself included) who would love to make After Effects shape and puppet pin animations a bigger part of our workflow, but we're limited by the current selection tool.
When animating a complex shape (or a mesh of puppet pins), it can get quite tedious using the rectangle selection to manually select each group of vertices and pins we want to transform. (I've attached a gif showing how Lasso can be easily twice as fast).
Having a Lasso tool (like the one in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Animate) would save us countless hours, help After Effects integrate even more seamlessly with Photoshop & Illustrator, and free us up to create much more complex and beautiful shape, puppet pin, and character animations. Other users have also noted that a lasso selection tool for keyframes in the timeline would also be extremely helpful in their workflows.
Thanks for reading, and please upvote if you agree! 🙂
(Kudos to Armando Javier Saldivar on the old Adobe forum for bring this up previously: https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911311-after-effects/suggestions/40682497-lasso-tool-select... )
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