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Using slider controls for wiggling a light's intensity

Using slider controls for wiggling a light's intensity - After Effects Tutorial

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Using slider controls for wiggling a light's intensity

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- Adding some random animation to a light in your composition can really help add some spark to your projects. We're going to take a look at how we can use expression controls to drive random animation for our lights. So I'm here in my chapter three three composition. I've got a couple lights in the composition. I've got a lovely still background that has been scaled up in size, plus a simple text animation. And I would like to add a little bit of wiggle to the lights existing in the comp that are playing with the 3D objects. So if I press F4, we can see there that we have the background as well as the two text layers are in fact 3D, and they're interacting with our three lights within the scene. Let me just press F4 to have a clearer view here of the timeline, and I would like to have control over the wiggle value of light one, the wiggle to start off subtle, and then I want it to get more and more aggressive throughout time. So if I press T to reveal the light's intensity, and then…

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