The Secret to Creating Dynamic Bends in After Effects

Was a pleasure to be hosted on the channel for this video, hope you all learn something from this :) And definitely share with us if you make something using these techniques!

As a distortion-obsessed animator, I fouind this tutorial to be EXCELLENT.

I clicked on the video to learn after effects tips and came out as a software developer. thank you :) this expression thing is crazy

hey your link doesnt show off to the email address

cant get the files throw mail the mail didn't sent to me

@Skymography hey bro, I still face an error on 'anchorpoint + value' , when I applied on position my layer is still teleporting when using rotation. How can I fix that?

Great tutorial! I'm lazy, so I found it annoying to have to manually enter in the Anchor Point values. I adjusted your Anchor Point expression to automatically find the bottom corners. Here it is: var layer = thisLayer; var xAdj = 1; //shift corner on X, <1 moves anchors toward center var bBox = layer.sourceRectAtTime(0); // Define the anchor point for bottom right corner var anchorA = [layer.anchorPoint[0] + (bBox.width / 2)*xAdj, layer.anchorPoint[1] + bBox.height / 2]; // Define the anchor point for bottom left corner var anchorB = [layer.anchorPoint[0] - (bBox.width / 2)*xAdj, layer.anchorPoint[1] + bBox.height / 2]; var r = layer.transform.rotation; if(r >= 0){ anchorA }else{ anchorB }

Awesome tutorial, although when I did this myself, the expression used for making sure layer stayed in the same spot after the anchor points switched, didn't work. It doesnt shift it the right amount... followed everything step by step too. Any pointers?

Working with expressions is all fun. Thanks

I click out of curiosity and I learned a LOT, bending was just an excuse to serve knowledge

one of the best video to learn the core animation of Aftereffects. Just Love It

Was so fun to follow along and feel like I levelled up in my skills, thank you so much.

I love seeing real-life objects animated in absurd ways, amazing video!

Skymography is a fantastic instructor. I loved this. Great collab!

Great video, thank you for sharing these techniques

Hi @schoolofmotion , I also didn't receive anything on my email. Is the site working as expected?

That was incredible!! learned so much so quick

Thanks man!!

Great tutorial and cool, simple animation! Besides being a smart rig, lots of other cool little workflow ideas in here - a couple of my favorites were 1) using Masks set to "none" with a Fill effect to add the bg shapes to the layers, and 2) using Adjustment layers w Transform fx for camera moves... Always great to be reminded of different/simpler ways of doing things! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much, I've been using two nulls to do the rotation animation in your case and I've never thought of using expressions to change the anchor points...Such an easy but helpful trick. Also for the flickering trick, I've been keyframing the value for wiggle....Life saver tricks, my knees down here😆😆