Free Puppet Animation Tools in FCPX with ProPuppet

Posted on by Jeff Riegel, Producer/Editor

by Pixel Film Studios

ProPuppet Lite is a free animation tool that brings the power of image manipulation into Final Cut Pro.  Easily create fun and silly animations using a simple mesh and puppet pin interface.  Instantly bring still images to life with the click of a mouse!

*This plugin is only compatible with 1080p projects.

*This plugin will not include the puppet images displayed in the promotional video; the images are sourced at the end of the video.

*ProPuppet will require Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra and FCPX 10.4.5.

Puppet Animation Tools

Instantly add organic motion to still images within Final Cut Pro. With ProPuppet Lite, video editors now have the ability to create puppet animations with easy-to-use controls. Simply adjust the mesh count and add puppet pins to their corresponding joints. With ProPuppet Lite, users can quickly animate any subject with incredible ease.

Puppet Pin Animation

The ProPuppet Lite mesh can easily be manipulated by adding pins to anchor the mesh triangles. Limitlessly add pins using the hot-key “Shift + Click”. Warping the image is as easy as clicking and dragging the pin points. In addition to object manipulation, Final Cut Pro users can also keyframe pins to create silly animations. Simply activate the keyframes next to the control points in the inspector window, scrub down the timeline, and reposition pins.

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Customizable Wire Mesh

Redefine the way media animates with complete control over wire mesh. Using simple sliders and mesh on-screen controls, videos editors have the ability redefine the way media animates in Final Cut Pro. Animating inanimate objects has never been so fun a easy to do with Final Cut Pro.

Designed for Final Cut Pro

ProPuppet Lite was professionally designed to work seamlessly inside of Final Cut Pro X. As a generator the ProPuppet Lite preset can be dragged and dropped onto media and previewed in real time. With the published parameters found in the FCPX inspector, users have the ability to make further adjustments with just a few clicks of a mouse.

Download here!

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For two decades, Jeff Riegel was a senior level Producer/Editor for the Department of Defense and various government contractors in Northern Virginia. Outside of the workplace, Jeff keeps himself busy with the creation of festival worthy documentaries "Tori Nelson: Fighting for Her Future" and the once nominated and two-time Emmy award winning "A Journey of Education and Remembrance." His short film "The Great Realisation" captured the eyes at 18 international film festivals with various winning honors; a poem that takes on heavy themes such as fevered capitalism, man-made ecological issues, digital addiction during the global Covid blight. Jeff is looking for funding investors and co-producing "The Lost Clipper," a two+ decades project about the first hijacking in U.S. history and the search for those 15 lost souls abducted in 1938, the true first act of war with Japan. Filming takes him to Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, Canada, and locations across the U.S. (see www.LostClipper.com) He enjoys creating media-marketing social networking campaign for personalities such as 13-time world boxing champion Tori Nelson, Netflix's "Narcos" personalities Steve Murphy and Javier Pena, and renowned landscape photographer Frank Lee Ruggles. Jeff is eager to attack any project head-on. Jeff's Motto: think beyond convention...and consider it done!