From the course: RubberHose Animation with After Effects
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Simplify your composition - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: RubberHose Animation with After Effects
Simplify your composition
- [Instructor] Our character's looking really great, but we need to simplify the project a bit. Now there are some tools that allow you to help simplify the project, for example here, we've got select all layers in group which is really useful. So if I select the ankle and click on select all layers in group it will select everything that is associated with that, and then it's very easy for me to change the color label, for example, to blue for all of those layers. So that's really useful. So let's also do that for the wrist. So I'll just unlock these layers while I'm doing management and we'll select all the layers in group and then we'll just change those to purple. So really, really easy to do that. So another useful button is the duplicate button. So if I have a rubber hose group, like this one, and I click on this button, that's going to duplicate it and I'm just going to move those up to the top. So I've now got a copy of that leg and I can just drag that across and that can be…
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