In this course, Chris Meyer shows how to set up a parenting chain, discusses what makes a good parent, and demonstrates several techniques using parenting, such as creating a title animation with a minimal number of keyframes, building a geometric construct, and bringing an anthropomorphic robot arm to life. Sidebar topics include avoiding a scaling gotcha with parenting and creating abstract backgrounds using the Fractal Noise effect. The After Effects Apprentice videos on lynda. com were created by Trish and Chris Meyer and are designed to be used on their own and as a companion to their book After Effects Apprentice. We are honored to host these tutorials in the lynda. com Online Training Library®.

Topics include:
* Preparing files
* Making parenting connections
* Arranging the frame and arm
* Using null objects
* Crafting anthropomorphic-style animations
* Avoiding problems with non-uniform scaling
* Animating Fractal Noise

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