In this episode I will share with you a simple After Effects preset I designed to help me stick 2D layers to a variety of sources without the need for parenting. While the technique itself is trivially simple, I will explain in-depth the mechanism behind the script and walk you through a number of examples of how it can be used.
Running time: 43min
Difficulty: Easy
Required tools: After Effects
Intro and Outro music: “Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails
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Download the files associated with this turtorial below:
- QubaHQ Superglue
Tested with Adobe After Effects CC, Localized for English AE version
Download: QubaHQ_Superglue.zip
Extract the downloaded file into your After Effects presets folder.
The tutorial can also be watched at YouTube and Vimeo.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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Any chance of getting a preset of this for CS6 or if possible the Expression so that I could recreate it myself?
@AB Does it not work in CS6?
If you watch the video, there are parts where I have the expression open so that you can re-type it (it is very short) and also a good 10 minute segment when I walk through how it is built.
Let me know if you end up creating a CS6 version – I may just include in the next version of the zip.
@Quba It doesn’t work in CS6 unfortunately. I can get the Anchor Of… version working following your tutorial, but not the Center Of… version. I tried the following, but the center seems incorrectly offset using:
try {
target=effect(“Superglue to Center of…”)(“Layer”);
target.toComp([target.width/2,target.height/2])+effect(“Offset”)(“Point”)
}
catch(e)
{
value
}
I don’t know how to do the Connect Anchors versions either from your tutorial.
If you could upload or email a Project file with all the Presets/Expressions included and go to File>Save a copy as Version CS6 from your CC version, then I could open the project and create new Presets from there as CS6 versions and send them back to you for inclusion in the download for others on CS6.
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kickass presets !
thanks to you and motionworks for the link to your website