From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 14 Shape Layers
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Wiggle Paths - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 14 Shape Layers
Wiggle Paths
There are a few self-animating shape effects. There's Wiggle Transform, which we'll deal with later, and Wiggle Paths. What Wiggle Paths does is again break up your shape to the line segments in between the vertices. It gives you Size and Detail kind of like zigzags, so I'll knock it down to fewer wiggles in between my segments and increase their Offset, choose whether or not they are smooth or sharp, but most fun of all, I'll press the spacebar to start a playback. You'll see that it automatically animates all on its own. The default speed is 2 wiggles a second. If you want to make it a little more dreamlike, you can slow it down to say half a wiggle a second, and now you have a much more slow movement. The Correlation decides whether or not the movement is completely random between segments, where you'll get all sorts of craziness going on here, or as you get very high, like up into the 90s, whether or not the shape keeps its general outline in a more solid way but still wiggles. In…
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