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Continuous motion and overlapping action with Wiggle

Continuous motion and overlapping action with Wiggle - After Effects Tutorial

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Continuous motion and overlapping action with Wiggle

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- [Instructor] I'm in chapter two, 05 Action and Motion with Wiggle in my project file. Here's a little of my personal animation philosophy for you. Simply put, the more you have happening on-screen, the less likely it is anyone will notice the little bits of bad animation you inevitably have in your composition. You can go ahead and claim every little key frame and motion path is perfect in your animation. That's fine, it just makes you a liar. Imperfection is inevitable in our work. Due to time constraints, cost constraints or downright laziness, no big deal. Having overlapping action, continuous motion and many things going on at once will hide most of these imperfections. In this composition, I have a few different things placed but no movement or action going on. It looks okay, but it's a bit boring. Without adding a bunch of key frames, I want to liven it up by adding some continuous motion. Some of that overlapping action and a touch of randomness. I'll demonstrate a few…

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