Faux Paper Crumple Using Puppet Pin Tool in After Effects

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Adobe After Effects CC 2024: Faux Paper Crumple Using Puppet Pin Tool

**Description:
**This tutorial will show you how to use the Puppet Position Pin Tool in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to create a ‘faux’ stop-motion paper crumple animation.

**Effects Used:
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• Hand-drawn effect (on logo)
• Transform Effect…Add Camera Shake to Rotation (wiggle 3,1)
• CC Vignette…darken edges (wiggle 12,5) to add flicker
• Noise
• Roughen Edges

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Keyboard Shortcuts Used:
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• Cmd/Ctrl + P: Puppet Position Pin Tool:
• Cmd/Ctrl + Right Arrow: Move CTI 5 Frames Forward
• U: Reveal Keyframes
• P: Position Property
S: Scale
• R: Rotation
• F9: Easy Ease
• Cmd/Ctrl + D: Duplicate

**Music Used:

**‘ES_Just Playing - Jules Gaia’

Terrapin Textures Video Assets:
Free Orange Pastel 4K Texture

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro: About The Tutorial
00:12 Composition Settings + Overview
00:35 PreCompose Graph Paper + Logo
00:57 Select Puppet Pin Tool (Cmd/Ctrl + P)
01:24 Unhide Pins
01:59 Move CTI + Move Pins (Start Animating)
02:34 Animate Position, Scale & Rotation
03:26 Reverse Animation
03:56 Finishing Touches

**Software Used:
**Adobe After Effects CC 2024 (Click To Try or Buy)

How To Create ‘Faux’ Paper Crumple Using Puppet Tool Adobe After Effects CC 2024:

1. Create Composition (1080 x 1920)
2. Add Paper Texture Background
3. Add Logo (or any graphic)
4. Add ‘Hand-drawn Effect on Logo to add movement
5. Select Paper + Logo and right-click and select ‘Precompose)
6. Enter a name for Precomp and click ‘OK’
7. Go to Toolbar and click on Puppet Tool (Cmd/Ctrl + P)
8. Drag CTI to the beginning of Timeline
9. Click to add pins all over paper texture + logo Precomp
10. Move CTI forward 5 Frames (Cmd/Ctrl + Right Arrow)
11. Click and pull pins in toward center to simulate crumpling paper by hand
12. Move CTI forward 5 Frames (Cmd/Ctrl + Right Arrow) and finish
13. Tap Spacebar to Preview
14. Drag CTI between last 2 sets of keyframe
15. Tap P for Position, Shift + S for Scale, Shift + R for Rotation
16. Click stopwatch to add keyframes for all 3 properties
17. Move CTI forward and change Position, Scale, Rotation to animate
18. Adjust Keyframes to control timing & speed

How To Reverse Animation

1. Duplicate PreComp (Cmd/Ctrl + D)
2. Right-Click on duplicate and select Time…Time Reverse Layer
3. Tap U to Reveal All Keyframes
4. Select All Keyframes and drag closer to PreComp #1
5. Adjust Keyframes to control timing & speed

Finishing Touches

1. Add Music & Sound Effects (https://mikemurphy.co/epidemic)
2. Add Texture Background (animate using Toggle Hold Keyframes)
3. Add Adjustment Layer with Effects (Transform, CC Vignette, Grain, Roughen Edges