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Animating wiggles

Animating wiggles - After Effects Tutorial

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Animating wiggles

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- [Instructor] Now, there are a few things to keep in mind when you want to animate the wiggly selector. The most important is that you do not animate wiggles per second. Notice if I turn on the stopwatch for Wiggles/Second, I get a hold keyframe. What this is telling me is that although I'm allowed to change the value for the wiggles per second, I'm not allowed to interpolate between two different values. So if I can't animate wiggles per second, how do I fade up the effect and fade it down again? Well you do that by animating the minimum and maximum amounts. I'll turn on the stopwatches for minimum and maximum, and we'll go to the middle of the animation, say at two seconds, and we'll create keyframes here as well. Now, at the beginning, I'm going to change this to 0, 0. When I set Max and Min to 0, the wiggly selector has no effect, but as that value increases at 100% and -100%, the full effect of position…

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