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Wiggle Transform

Wiggle Transform - After Effects Tutorial

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Wiggle Transform

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I've twirled up some of the components of my shape group, just to clean up my Timeline panel, and we're going to explore one more shape effect, one called Wiggle Transform. So that you can understand exactly what's going on underneath the hood, we're going to start with a simpler shape than this repeated flower petal. I'm going to go back to our original shape play. I've turned off the polystar because it was very complex, and I've actually reduced the size of my rectangle, just to make it a little easier to follow what's going on. You can go ahead and create your own ellipse, rectangle, just some shape where you can easily tell how it's rotating and how it's scaling. Let's say that I want this shape to automatically move around, scale, and rotate. Well, as you may remember from earlier After Effects lessons, there are some animation presets in the Behaviors categories that could wiggle the scale, rotation, position, et cetera, of shapes. However, this takes an entire layer after it's…

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