ABSTRACT
Parenting allows to group layers together and to treat them as one object. Any position, scale, or rotation transformations applied to the parent are passed on to its children. The children can still have their own animations, even as they get dragged around by the parent. Parenting can be used for anything from moving two layers at the same time to setting up complex coordinated animations. This chapter focuses on the creative applications of parenting. Parenting is performed by attaching a prospective child layer to its new parent layer. A parent can have more than one child. Children are not affected by the opacity of their parent, or by any effects applied to it. After Effects combines the transform properties of the parent and child to decide where to render the child in the composition.
