Use A Jello-Jiggly Expression – Quick Tip
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: Just After Effects... enjoy!
- Difficulty: Beginner
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
In this Quick Tip, Ewan is going to run you through inserting an expression to the properties of an object to give it a Jello-like Wiggle. For other fun expressions check out MotionScript.com.
Tutorial
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Looks fine, but I was rather expecting something more realistic ;)
Although very useful info :D
Pretty Simple, but’s good! Thanks.
REALY HELPFULL … EVEN MORE THAN MOST BIG TUTS ON AE.TUT
THX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really liked this! Really well presented Ewan! It’s hard to get the dynamics correct when working with 2D layers and expressions… but this is coming really close… AND NO KEYFRAMES! haha…
Good job man!
…well someone’s in a good mood, shouldn’t you be taking care of the baby?
Dude, freakin sweet! I so wanna punch some jello now :P
Dude I hate to sound like a tard but I totally got lost typing in that expression. You mind providing us w/ a simple copy and paste to get the jello jigglin?
thx in advance.
Hi, here’s the expression in full:
warp =effect(“Warp”)(“Horizontal Distortion”);
decay = .9;
end= 0;
duration = thisComp.frameDuration;
current = Math.round(time / duration);
amount = 0;
for (f = 1; f <= current; f++){
difference = warp – end;
amount = (amount – difference) * decay;
warp+= amount;
}
warp
You’re awesome
Phew! Finally got it, thanks man :)
warp=effect(“Warp”)(“Horizontal Distortion”);
decay=.7;
end=0;
duration=thisComp.frameDuration;
current=Math.round(time/duration);
amount=0;
for(f=1;f<=current;f++){
difference=warp-end;
amount=(amount-difference)*decay;
warp+=amount;
}
warp
warp=effect("Warp")("Vertical Distortion");
decay=.7;
end=0;
duration=thisComp.frameDuration;
current=Math.round(time/duration);
amount=0;
for(f=1;f<=current;f++){
difference=warp-end;
amount=(amount-difference)*decay;
warp+=amount;
}
warp
That should work :D
well done !!
this is what i created two months earlier..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCAQuYZOkgI
And here’s the French version for copy/paste:
warp = effect(“Déformation”)(“Distorsion horizontale”);
decay = .9;
end= 0;
duration = thisComp.frameDuration;
current = Math.round(time / duration);
amount = 0;
for (f = 1; f <= current; f++){
difference = warp – end;
amount = (amount – difference) * decay;
warp+= amount;
}
warp
Super ! Merci ! :)
thnxx dude the tutorial of yours is very good and i enjoyed learning it
once again thnxx for the share ;)
I love the tutorial, but I can’t get my expressions to work. I’ve copied and pasted the expression code but I get an error saying:
After Effects warning: Syntax error Expression disabled.
Error occurred at line 1.
Comp: ‘Animation’
Layer: 1(‘Jello_Text’)
Property: ‘Horizontal Distortion
Any ideas?
Thanks! =)
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it’s working fine for me. try to just download the video.