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I guys will welcome to this new lecture and this lecture we wanted to explore the null object and see



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how we can use it.



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What's the benefit and what are the methods that are mainly used for object.



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Let's take a simple example.



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And this composition I have four squares that are rotating on their own anchor points.



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If you select them you see that the rotation is happening on their own and at that point.



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Now what I would like to do is to rotate the four of them in the middle of the composition.



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So they rotate on their own and could point and then they rotate around the position center as soon



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as you have two or more layers that you want to animate exactly in the same way.



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Think about the object it will help you a lot.



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In this case we have four letters that we want to animate in the middle of the composition.



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It means one single anchor point.



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And of course null objects are the thing to use here.



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Let's create a null object.



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We come to layer new and click on an object an object here is created.



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Actually this object has nothing that has no colors and it would not render like we said and the anchor



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point is on the upper left column.



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You're not just a folder that's great for you.



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And inside this folder you have your null free.



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This is the one.



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It has an internal numeric system that will number or not 0 1 2 3 4 or whatever.



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Now I will come to all the layers and use of course the printing to print them to the non-theory.



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And obviously now if you listen carefully to the lecture about parenting you know very well.



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If I move or rotate or scale the knol it will also do the same for the other four layers.



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I will open for example rotation keyframe the rotation in the beginning go to 4 seconds to make it slow



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and nice and give it a two here two rotations if you run your animation now all your legs will be rotating



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on it themselves and also rotating on the anchor point of the null object.



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This is the power of the null object.



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Also you can click on the null object and move it around.



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And that you still maintain the animation of course for everything.



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So actually after creating the null object you are back to parenting and how to use parenting as simple



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as this fun.



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Let's go to another animation here.



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We have several layers.



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Some of them are shaped some of them are text and you want them to turn all together and then shrink



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a bit down scale down and then move out.



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How do we do this.



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Any mission symbol or any mission by the way.



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Let's go to new and create a null object again.



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The Null Object is the center here.



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That's very fine.



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We select all our layers and we will weep for parenting.



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You do you have them now.



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Let's open the scale position and maybe the rotation of the null object.



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So the first thing I want to do is to keyframe descale and after some time let's bring this one here.



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After a few seconds just make it 80 percent real do.



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So they get smaller even more 60 percent call and you know this how they are all getting done.



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Of course we're talking about parenting here.



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But also we are demonstrating how easy is it to use the null object to move the five or six letters



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that we have.



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I will keyframe the position I would keyframe the rotation here come a few seconds or a few frames and



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turn them minus 90 degree at school.



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Keyframe again the position was necessary to keep them in the beginning but nevertheless come to one



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second.



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Now hold the anchor point press shift and move it on this side and then after two seconds just move



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it to the outside.



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OK.



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That's a sample of how you can use the null object to any.



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Similarly as you are actually grouping them.



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Let's play our animation.



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And it's pretty nice.



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Pretty cool.



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Not this that this animation would have been almost impossible without the null object.



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This is all about the null object for now and we are going to use it mainly to create some superb animation.



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The power of use of the object will become more obvious for you when we are using a 3-D animation and



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we are doing motion tracking.



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This is all explained in the course later on.



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Thanks very much for listening.



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I'll see you in the next lecture.