After Effects Puppet Tool Multiple Layers. From the main menu choose Layer Pre-compose. For more on this subject.
Typically if you have a few distinct elements on one layer you need to. Now unlike the characters you need to create for jointed animation where you have to break the character up into separate layers in Photoshop before importing it into After Effects your Puppet Pin character should be all one piece on a single layer. I would animate the bird using puppet pin animate the tree using puppet pin pre-compose the tree precompose the bird duplicate the tree pre comp and draw a mask so you can put the bird between the two copies of.
The new tools also can have other uses as Mikey Borup shows in his latest quick tip.
Projects saved in earlier versions of After Effects use the legacy Puppet engine by default. The new tools also can have other uses as Mikey Borup shows in his latest quick tip. To access the Advanced Puppet Tools click the Pin icon in the Toolbar and the Puppet. And it works on any type of artwork psd ai shape layers etc.