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Create a RubberHose arm

Create a RubberHose arm - After Effects Tutorial

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Create a RubberHose arm

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- [Instructor] So I've got my little gardener character here. I want to create some arms for him. And I'm going to do that using rubber hose. If you want to follow along, you can open arm start, and I'm going to go into Window, select it here. I want to create his left arm, so I'm going type in left arm and then underneath, I want to choose which part of the body that I'm working with. For arms, we would choose shoulder/wrist. If it was legs, we could choose hip/ankle, but we'll choose shoulder/wrist and then all we need to do to create the arm is click on this button here. Really, really easy and it creates an arm for us. You'll notice that three things have appeared down in the timeline. You've got the arm itself. If I select it, you can see that there's a path for the arm. We've also got two other layers. These ones here. We've got left arm/shoulder and left/arm wrist. And these are controller layers so they're there just to control the position of the arm. You'll notice the guide…

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