NEWS • FEBRUARY 26, 2001
After Effects 5 Goes 3D
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Parenting
In After Effects 5, there's a new feature called parenting, which should be familiar to 3D animators. The concept in AE is that you can link layers to one another in parent-child relationships so that transformations on one layer can affect another in a manner similar to an IK chain.

The examples above use parenting to allow individual objects (bone segments
in this case) to move in relation to one another.

Parent-child relationships aren't limited to footage layers. You can also define relationships between light and camera layers in 3D compositions. This allows a camera to track individual elements in a composition and lights to keep objects illuminated regardless of their movement.

Establishing parent-child relationships, as in the above example, is just a matter of dragging a target icon from the source layer to another layer's parenting column in the timeline.

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