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The Puppet Pin tool does the heavy lifting, but Ctrl/
Cmd+P cycles through two other Puppet tools that help
in special cases.
The pretzel example requires specifi c control over which
parts of the deformation overlap as two regions cross; this
is handled by the Puppet Overlap tool. The mesh must
be displayed to use Puppet Overlap, and you apply the
Overlap point on the original, undeformed mesh shape,
not the deformation.overlap others and then adjust the settings as to how much
“In Front” it’s meant to be and its Extent (how far from the
pin this overlap area reaches). You can leave the In Front
setting at the default until you start mixing more than one
overlap; the higher the value, the closer to the viewer (and
negative values will be further away than those with no setting,
which default to 0).
The Starch tool prevents an area from deforming. It’s
not meant to anchor a region of the image but instead to
sit between animated pins, preventing the highlighted area
(expanded or contracted with the tool’s Extent setting)
from being squished or stretched