0 1 00:00:00,219 --> 00:00:01,882 Hi there, welcome to this video... 1 2 00:00:01,907 --> 00:00:05,087 about the Puppet Warp Tool in Adobe Illustrator. 2 3 00:00:05,438 --> 00:00:07,016 It's used for a couple of good things. 3 4 00:00:07,048 --> 00:00:09,687 One of them is this, where we get to kind of manipulate Type... 4 5 00:00:09,712 --> 00:00:12,406 and bend it around so it fits into shapes... 5 6 00:00:12,648 --> 00:00:15,625 but also make monsters dance. 6 7 00:00:17,906 --> 00:00:20,063 Very, very important and useful technique. 7 8 00:00:20,359 --> 00:00:21,828 All right, maybe he wants to wave too. 8 9 00:00:22,063 --> 00:00:24,109 Let's go and do the tutorial. 9 10 00:00:24,134 --> 00:00:25,156 Yay! 10 11 00:00:25,944 --> 00:00:27,144 Let's get started. 11 12 00:00:27,169 --> 00:00:30,766 Open up the 'Puppet Pin' file from your 'Exercise Files'. 12 13 00:00:32,273 --> 00:00:33,375 We're going to select on something. 13 14 00:00:34,039 --> 00:00:36,500 Now for this to work, it needs to be a vector file. 14 15 00:00:37,289 --> 00:00:38,758 Most things in Illustrator are. 15 16 00:00:39,031 --> 00:00:43,054 If you want to do it with say, JPEG, pixels, or raster images... 16 17 00:00:43,226 --> 00:00:46,000 you can do in Photoshop, there's a Puppet Pin Tool there as well. 17 18 00:00:46,041 --> 00:00:48,367 There's one in After Effects as well if you want to animate it. 18 19 00:00:49,054 --> 00:00:51,328 This is the tool we want, the Puppet Pin Tool. 19 20 00:00:52,406 --> 00:00:54,711 You click on him once, you need at least two. 20 21 00:00:55,117 --> 00:00:57,234 In this case, probably a few of them. 21 22 00:00:57,788 --> 00:01:00,039 You'll need to probably experiment with him... 22 23 00:01:00,072 --> 00:01:02,703 because once you put them in, if I grab the tail, and wiggle it... 23 24 00:01:03,898 --> 00:01:04,703 it's cool, huh. 24 25 00:01:04,728 --> 00:01:07,547 I love-- I don't know. 25 26 00:01:07,758 --> 00:01:09,703 Pretty cool. Organic, okay. 26 27 00:01:10,312 --> 00:01:11,664 You can see, he's kind of-- 27 28 00:01:11,812 --> 00:01:13,140 See the waves moving. 28 29 00:01:14,289 --> 00:01:15,250 It's meant to be water. 29 30 00:01:16,467 --> 00:01:17,600 You see that wiggling around. 30 31 00:01:17,625 --> 00:01:18,843 If you don't want that to happen... 31 32 00:01:18,868 --> 00:01:20,757 you might go-- okay, I'm going to undo that. 32 33 00:01:21,422 --> 00:01:23,906 Then I'm going to put in a pin there, and maybe a pin there. 33 34 00:01:24,188 --> 00:01:25,101 The more pins you have... 34 35 00:01:25,126 --> 00:01:27,134 the kind of more it doesn't want to move around that. 35 36 00:01:27,243 --> 00:01:29,938 You get more control, you can see, it's not moving the whale... 36 37 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,703 and over here, the tail is not moving that. 37 38 00:01:32,736 --> 00:01:35,407 So just play around with what you need. 38 39 00:01:35,555 --> 00:01:36,422 How many pins you need... 39 40 00:01:36,447 --> 00:01:38,665 if you want to get rid of pins, say you don't want too many... 40 41 00:01:38,751 --> 00:01:40,563 click on them, delete on your keyboard. 41 42 00:01:40,719 --> 00:01:42,407 Other things you can do is-- 42 43 00:01:42,432 --> 00:01:44,860 We're just going to pin this guy, so you need to select him first. 43 44 00:01:45,157 --> 00:01:46,680 I'm going to grab my 'Puppet Pin Tool'. 44 45 00:01:47,126 --> 00:01:50,633 One of the things, is you do get artefacts, it's just part of this process. 45 46 00:01:51,407 --> 00:01:54,602 You might have to tidy them up afterwards with the Direct Selection Tool. 46 47 00:01:55,156 --> 00:01:57,875 I'm just pinning it at a few places, and you can see... 47 48 00:01:58,523 --> 00:02:02,078 you can see, down here, see this line here has kind of come apart. 48 49 00:02:02,112 --> 00:02:04,126 That's kind of pointing a little bit. 49 50 00:02:04,337 --> 00:02:07,063 There's no real way of kind of fixing that on the fly. 50 51 00:02:07,088 --> 00:02:09,071 Just get the things where you want it. 51 52 00:02:09,422 --> 00:02:10,515 Change your adjustments... 52 53 00:02:10,540 --> 00:02:14,562 and you might have to go and do some fixing up afterwards. 53 54 00:02:15,325 --> 00:02:18,419 It's just a really good way of like, kind of recurling this. 54 55 00:02:18,787 --> 00:02:20,825 Say I don't want that kind of perfect circle look... 55 56 00:02:20,850 --> 00:02:22,496 I'm kind of just adjusting this. 56 57 00:02:23,576 --> 00:02:26,294 Other options is, with him selected-- 57 58 00:02:27,474 --> 00:02:29,107 there's this kind of dotted line around the outside. 58 59 00:02:29,132 --> 00:02:32,044 If you click, hold, and drag that, it's the rotation rather than the movement. 59 60 00:02:33,232 --> 00:02:35,623 All right, you, rotation. 60 61 00:02:36,108 --> 00:02:37,163 All very cool. 61 62 00:02:37,188 --> 00:02:38,339 Now by default I-- 62 63 00:02:38,364 --> 00:02:40,210 well not by default, we're going to show you the Mesh. 63 64 00:02:40,235 --> 00:02:42,256 I should have that on by default. 64 65 00:02:42,281 --> 00:02:44,029 I turn it off when I don't find it that helpful. 65 66 00:02:45,889 --> 00:02:48,374 Just shows you kind of like where it's distorting this thing. 66 67 00:02:49,405 --> 00:02:50,421 Turn that on and off. 67 68 00:02:51,007 --> 00:02:53,460 Let's have a look at this one, because this raises some other... 68 69 00:02:53,577 --> 00:02:56,850 well not issues, but this guy here... 69 70 00:02:56,875 --> 00:02:58,529 let's say we're drawing a character... 70 71 00:02:58,554 --> 00:03:02,412 and it's best to draw them obviously arms off their body, and legs... 71 72 00:03:02,437 --> 00:03:04,944 so that you can later on adjust them. 72 73 00:03:05,108 --> 00:03:06,163 Gives you more options. 73 74 00:03:06,327 --> 00:03:08,342 What we're going to do is select this whole guy... 74 75 00:03:08,732 --> 00:03:10,451 and we are going to grab the 'Pen Tool'. 75 76 00:03:10,522 --> 00:03:12,460 We're going to look at Pin Depth. 76 77 00:03:13,808 --> 00:03:15,254 Let's click on arms. 77 78 00:03:15,676 --> 00:03:19,090 This guy here, this guy is the best guy to do the animation because-- 78 79 00:03:22,856 --> 00:03:23,707 I'm going to put him back. 79 80 00:03:23,732 --> 00:03:24,934 One of the other thing is... 80 81 00:03:24,959 --> 00:03:27,231 say I want to move him in, and scratch his belly... 81 82 00:03:27,543 --> 00:03:29,582 but at the moment he's scratching his bum, right? 82 83 00:03:29,902 --> 00:03:32,683 Because this hand is going below this. 83 84 00:03:33,848 --> 00:03:36,317 In other programs they've got something called Pin Depth... 84 85 00:03:36,342 --> 00:03:40,340 we don't have that in Illustrator yet. 85 86 00:03:40,473 --> 00:03:43,441 Probably will happen, there might be an option up here that says Pin Depth... 86 87 00:03:43,473 --> 00:03:45,605 or over here, in future versions. 87 88 00:03:45,754 --> 00:03:48,356 It doesn't at the moment, so I'm going to undo, put him back. 88 89 00:03:48,481 --> 00:03:50,757 It's nothing to do with when the Pen Tool replaces... 89 90 00:03:50,782 --> 00:03:52,536 it's all to do with the Layer order. 90 91 00:03:52,715 --> 00:03:55,700 What I can do is grab my Direct Selection Tool, click off... 91 92 00:03:56,020 --> 00:03:59,114 click on just this hand here, and I can bring him to the front. 92 93 00:03:59,301 --> 00:04:02,231 You can use your shortcut, or go, 'Arrange', 'Bring to Front'. 93 94 00:04:02,489 --> 00:04:04,207 It's all to do with that. 94 95 00:04:04,232 --> 00:04:07,450 You can mess around lots more in your Layers panel figuring out. 95 96 00:04:07,637 --> 00:04:09,719 Here's this guy, he had all his bits and pieces... 96 97 00:04:09,744 --> 00:04:10,927 if I drag him up or down... 97 98 00:04:11,465 --> 00:04:12,903 that might be just too painful... 98 99 00:04:13,168 --> 00:04:15,957 but now if I click on him, and grab my 'Puppet Pin Tool'... 99 100 00:04:16,168 --> 00:04:18,223 and I go... he's scratching his belly. 100 101 00:04:18,699 --> 00:04:19,543 Awesome, huh? 101 102 00:04:19,568 --> 00:04:22,356 Last but not least, let's look at doing a kind of-- 102 103 00:04:22,388 --> 00:04:23,832 I'm not a character animator... 103 104 00:04:23,857 --> 00:04:27,762 I do more graphic design kind of work with it. 104 105 00:04:28,105 --> 00:04:32,113 Remember, in an earlier tutorial, we grabbed this and this... 105 106 00:04:32,317 --> 00:04:35,325 and we make sure this is in front, we selected both of them... 106 107 00:04:35,350 --> 00:04:39,700 and we went 'Object', 'Envelope Distort', we said 'Make the Top Object'. 107 108 00:04:39,895 --> 00:04:40,973 And it kind of worked, right? 108 109 00:04:40,998 --> 00:04:43,646 You're like, "I switched that Fill out over here." 109 110 00:04:43,895 --> 00:04:45,606 So that's where it gets quite cool, right? 110 111 00:04:46,372 --> 00:04:48,083 I can select on this... 111 112 00:04:48,123 --> 00:04:51,567 I am going to grab my 'Pen Tool'. Do I need to expand it first? I do. 112 113 00:04:51,919 --> 00:04:54,388 So with it selected, go to 'Object'... 113 114 00:04:54,443 --> 00:04:58,387 go to 'Envelope Distort', and go to 'Expand'. 114 115 00:04:58,872 --> 00:05:00,278 So now it's just bits and pieces. 115 116 00:05:00,303 --> 00:05:02,247 What I might do as well is I want that heart back. 116 117 00:05:02,598 --> 00:05:05,020 How can I go back in time and get the heart? I don't know. 117 118 00:05:05,645 --> 00:05:07,028 Should have left the heart there. 118 119 00:05:08,966 --> 00:05:12,341 'Object', this guy up here will release object. 119 120 00:05:13,458 --> 00:05:16,098 'Envelope Distort', and we'll say 'Release', please. 120 121 00:05:16,123 --> 00:05:17,536 So now they're two separate pieces. 121 122 00:05:17,561 --> 00:05:19,669 I'm using this just as a visual guide. 122 123 00:05:19,794 --> 00:05:21,809 So this top one now... 123 124 00:05:24,786 --> 00:05:26,638 Can I click on it? There it is there. 124 125 00:05:27,145 --> 00:05:29,677 So if I go to 'Object', and now if I expand him. 125 126 00:05:30,161 --> 00:05:31,442 I've taken the long road. 126 127 00:05:34,036 --> 00:05:36,930 What I might do is give myself just a stronger Fill... 127 128 00:05:36,955 --> 00:05:38,638 so we can see what we're doing. 128 129 00:05:39,926 --> 00:05:41,609 Now grab the 'Puppet Pin Tool'... 129 130 00:05:41,634 --> 00:05:44,388 and what I'll do is just give it some kind of rough pins. 130 131 00:05:46,763 --> 00:05:48,278 Make sure I'm clicking on the right path. 131 132 00:05:49,159 --> 00:05:50,645 I'm going to pin it there. 132 133 00:05:50,670 --> 00:05:52,895 Pin it there, pin it there. 133 134 00:05:53,958 --> 00:05:56,760 I'm clicking on the actual vector, not in this no man's land here... 134 135 00:05:56,785 --> 00:05:57,776 because that won't work. 135 136 00:05:58,833 --> 00:06:00,917 There's a couple of places I don't want to move him from. 136 137 00:06:00,942 --> 00:06:02,292 I want to do that step here. 137 138 00:06:02,739 --> 00:06:04,684 I'm guessing now where I want all these pins. 138 139 00:06:05,450 --> 00:06:07,981 So I want that there to stay, because it's kind of looking nice. 139 140 00:06:08,006 --> 00:06:10,692 It's this kind of a group here that I need... 140 141 00:06:10,717 --> 00:06:13,638 I'm going to bring that out, put another pin there, just tidy it in. 141 142 00:06:13,663 --> 00:06:16,255 You can see how you can kind of get some really nice-- 142 143 00:06:16,660 --> 00:06:18,354 well, I guess-- 143 144 00:06:19,057 --> 00:06:20,153 you see, the appearance. 144 145 00:06:20,348 --> 00:06:21,427 Better control. 145 146 00:06:22,583 --> 00:06:26,043 The other option, well what we used to do is some of these Liquefy tools. 146 147 00:06:26,075 --> 00:06:28,707 They're cool, but they're not as much. 147 148 00:06:28,732 --> 00:06:30,271 You can't have as much control. 148 149 00:06:30,481 --> 00:06:34,341 So goodbye, gray fox, and it's more like a heart. 149 150 00:06:36,528 --> 00:06:39,989 All right, your class exercise is to go and play with this guy. 150 151 00:06:40,014 --> 00:06:41,755 Set him up in some different poses... 151 152 00:06:41,966 --> 00:06:43,311 but before you go and do that... 152 153 00:06:43,336 --> 00:06:46,279 I wanted to show you how it works in something like After Effects... 153 154 00:06:46,304 --> 00:06:50,339 because, let's say we take this fella... 154 155 00:06:51,456 --> 00:06:53,253 and we stick him into our libraries. 155 156 00:06:54,020 --> 00:06:55,963 I want to put him into my library. 156 157 00:06:56,112 --> 00:06:57,268 There you go, buddy. 157 158 00:06:57,589 --> 00:07:00,089 I'm only using my After Effects, because the Puppet tool has... 158 159 00:07:00,237 --> 00:07:03,855 I get extra ingredient in After Effects... 159 160 00:07:03,902 --> 00:07:05,541 which is, you can animate it... 160 161 00:07:05,691 --> 00:07:07,433 whereas in Illustrator it's kind of flat. 161 162 00:07:07,526 --> 00:07:11,958 We'll illuminate it a little bit in the next set of videos, but check this out. 162 163 00:07:11,983 --> 00:07:14,956 I'm going to After Effects, just making it default comp, nothing special. 163 164 00:07:14,981 --> 00:07:18,249 In here, my libraries, where's my monster? Here he is. 164 165 00:07:19,112 --> 00:07:21,812 I'm going to make him a little-- actually I want to make him bigger. 165 166 00:07:24,136 --> 00:07:25,346 I'll make him a bit bigger. 166 167 00:07:25,916 --> 00:07:28,737 Remember, when you're scaling stuff up in After Effects... 167 168 00:07:28,762 --> 00:07:30,069 you need to click on that little button. 168 169 00:07:30,636 --> 00:07:32,355 So the vector comes and gets rescaled. 169 170 00:07:32,387 --> 00:07:36,503 Anyway, you can see here, it's the exact same icon, the Puppet Pin Tool. 170 171 00:07:36,573 --> 00:07:37,698 Exact same principle. 171 172 00:07:37,855 --> 00:07:40,839 Click on it a few times, it looks slightly different, the yellow dots. 172 173 00:07:42,206 --> 00:07:43,527 The nice thing about it is... 173 174 00:07:43,552 --> 00:07:46,285 I can do the same thing as I did in Illustrator, except... 174 175 00:07:46,448 --> 00:07:47,843 there's a shortcut, if you hold down... 175 176 00:07:47,868 --> 00:07:50,976 the 'Command' key on a Mac, or 'Control' key on a PC... 176 177 00:07:51,557 --> 00:07:53,026 so I'm holding it down. 177 178 00:07:53,463 --> 00:07:55,737 I'm clicking the 'Pin' first, then hold down the 'Command' key. 178 179 00:07:55,762 --> 00:07:58,197 Then, can you see the timeline in the bottom go... 179 180 00:07:58,222 --> 00:07:59,964 you can kind of see the yellow line. 180 181 00:07:59,989 --> 00:08:01,104 I am... 181 182 00:08:04,964 --> 00:08:06,218 It looks kind of crazy, but watch this... 182 183 00:08:06,243 --> 00:08:07,839 if I bring my Play head back to the beginning... 183 184 00:08:07,872 --> 00:08:10,604 and hit 'return' on my keyboard, no, it's 'space bar' on my keyboard... 184 185 00:08:10,925 --> 00:08:12,308 hit 'space bar' on my keyboard. 185 186 00:08:12,333 --> 00:08:14,276 Look at him go. 186 187 00:08:17,394 --> 00:08:18,870 Every time I-- 187 188 00:08:19,330 --> 00:08:23,096 I've made this guy dance thousands of times, but always makes me smile. 188 189 00:08:25,331 --> 00:08:27,323 You can get back to the beginning, and say, I need the hand too. 189 190 00:08:27,925 --> 00:08:30,097 With him selected, I'm going to hold 'Command' key down. 190 191 00:08:30,122 --> 00:08:32,105 See this little stopwatch kind of icon appears. 191 192 00:08:32,130 --> 00:08:34,722 Now clicking, holding, and dragging, and scratch bum time. 192 193 00:08:34,894 --> 00:08:36,065 Or waving time. 193 194 00:08:37,658 --> 00:08:39,392 Back to the beginning, hit 'space bar'. 194 195 00:08:45,339 --> 00:08:47,042 That's just the quick version. 195 196 00:08:47,067 --> 00:08:48,604 I'm going to jump back into Illustrator. 196 197 00:08:48,652 --> 00:08:51,650 Now I've got a course on how to do that properly with the Puppet Tool. 197 198 00:08:51,706 --> 00:08:54,706 We look at Puppet Depth, Mesh, and all sort of starching stuff. 198 199 00:08:54,754 --> 00:08:56,963 So check out that After Effects course. 199 200 00:08:56,996 --> 00:09:01,566 That one in particular is the After Effects and Motion Graphics course. 200 201 00:09:02,065 --> 00:09:04,698 One last thing before we go, there's going to be times where... 201 202 00:09:04,776 --> 00:09:08,144 we've got this Mesh, and we don't want it anymore. 202 203 00:09:08,635 --> 00:09:12,049 We want to get rid of the pins, and you can do that by going to 'Object'... 203 204 00:09:12,074 --> 00:09:14,894 and just go to 'Expand Appearance', that kind of gets rid of everything. 204 205 00:09:14,926 --> 00:09:16,620 It's now just a regular old shape. 205 206 00:09:17,370 --> 00:09:20,355 All right my friends, that is the Puppet Pin Tool. 206 207 00:09:22,034 --> 00:09:25,870 I hope you enjoyed it, and yes, I'd love to see what you do with this guy. 207 208 00:09:25,895 --> 00:09:30,726 Make sure you share it with me on this site here, and on social media. 208 209 00:09:31,516 --> 00:09:33,008 Let's go into the next video.