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Wiggle behaviors - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Hidden Gems
Wiggle behaviors
- We've spent the last two Hidden Gems exploring the Animation Presets' Behaviors category. We're going to wrap up Behaviors by talking about their various Wiggle options. Now, as I've mentioned before, a lot of these behaviors are based on expressions, and one of the most important, useful expressions there is is the Wiggle expression. However, if you're one of those people who just wants to stay away from expressions, you can use these presets to apply them in many cases. For example, we have this crosshair layer. We can animate it around and play around with its searching, but it'd be far easier if it was always drifting and moving and searching all on its own. Fewer keyframes, it would save us time. To do that, we select the crosshairs and double click the Wiggle - position behavior. Now as we preview, you'll see that it automatically will do searching all by itself, without us having to add keyframes. We can change how fast or slow it does it, maybe a little faster of a wiggle…