The Secret to Creating Dynamic Bends in After Effects
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Published 2024-03-27
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Expressions can be scary if you’ve never used them before. And even if you have, you may be avoiding them because who the heck wants to code?! But here’s the thing... After Effects expressions can make the impossible possible, the impractical practical, and the complicated simple. Sky will show you how to use a simple expression called if/else to help you animate things like color and anchor point position automatically so you don’t have to spend tons of time rigging and keyframing. The end result is a simple setup that gives you complex looking animation, with barely any work.
Sky used VideoCopilot’s free FX Console, which you can grab at: www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/fx_console_plugin/
Check out Sky's YouTube channel: / @skymography
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Intro 00:00:00
What is If/Else? 00:00:20
How It Works in After Effects 00:01:01
The Expression in a Practical Application 00:07:52
Let's Start Animating! 00:11:24
Finishing Touches 00:24:53
All Comments (21)
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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!
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I clicked on the video to learn after effects tips and came out as a software developer. thank you :) this expression thing is crazy
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As a distortion-obsessed animator, I fouind this tutorial to be EXCELLENT.
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I click out of curiosity and I learned a LOT, bending was just an excuse to serve knowledge
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one of the best video to learn the core animation of Aftereffects. Just Love It
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I love seeing real-life objects animated in absurd ways, amazing video!
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Working with expressions is all fun. Thanks
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Skymography is a fantastic instructor. I loved this. Great collab!
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Was so fun to follow along and feel like I levelled up in my skills, thank you so much.
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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😆😆
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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!
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I LOVED THIS. What a great use of If/Else.
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That was incredible!! learned so much so quick
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Great video, thank you for sharing these techniques
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beastly! very clean tut! Absolutely no waste
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Very cool, and very well explained! thankya!
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excellent sense to spread knowledge
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Great way to explain some capabilities of AE.
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I love this chanel ! Nice job guys 🎉
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Squiggly might be my new favorite word. Great tut Sky🧑🍳
