The Secret to Creating Dynamic Bends in After Effects
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- Create this bending rig in After Effects with a simple expression!
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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/tutorial...
Check out Sky's TH-cam 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
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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!
the collab of the century wtffff
I clicked on the video to learn after effects tips and came out as a software developer. thank you :) this expression thing is crazy
As a distortion-obsessed animator, I fouind this tutorial to be EXCELLENT.
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
Working with expressions is all fun. Thanks
I love seeing real-life objects animated in absurd ways, amazing video!
Great video, thank you for sharing these techniques
Was so fun to follow along and feel like I levelled up in my skills, thank you so much.
That was incredible!! learned so much so quick
Skymography is a fantastic instructor. I loved this. Great collab!
Very cool, and very well explained! thankya!
beastly! very clean tut! Absolutely no waste
Great way to explain some capabilities of AE.
I love this chanel ! Nice job guys 🎉
excellent sense to spread knowledge
Thanks man!!
Excellent fast tuto ! :) even the part for flicker is nice, a tuto about animation text would be dope !
I LOVED THIS. What a great use of If/Else.
Thank you for being so supportive throughout the making of this video! It's been great working with the SoM team :-)
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😆😆
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!
Squiggly might be my new favorite word. Great tut Sky🧑🍳
Skyyyyy, Glad to see you here on school of motion 😍
Does he have his own channel?
@@eduardonocetti5171 It's listed above. www.youtube.com/@Skymography
@@eduardonocetti5171 yes, his channel's name is Skymography
I like this thank you!!
Gold tutorial!
what a wonderful way to use If/else: I would have used null layer to control the rotation on opposite side
Damn sky from making videos just recently to school of motion already. Amazing. Great content as usual.
Power of expressions
Thank you knka
DOPE!!
Damn this guy is good teacher
Thanks Sky. Great job. I'm curious why you chose a slider instead of an angle control. Cheers!
It was the first thing on my mind at the time, but an angle control would totally work too!
i think first we cut the tower in photoshop and then import psd in AE
Homestly aftereffects code is the most easiest programming language i ever learned
great tutorial!
although i also use slider controls for rotation most of the time, is there a reason for not using a rotation controller on a rotation property? thx
Either works. Honestly I forgot the angle control was a thing for that part of the tutorial hahaha, at the end of the day it's just something to link the values to. Use what you like!
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, = 0){
anchorA
}else{
anchorB
}
Haven't tested this out but this is great of you to share! I initially wrote an expression to find the bottom left and right anchor points but found it to be too distracting from the main tutorial, and more importantly -- the bottom corners aren't always where the anchor point needs to go! On the top-most piece of the tower, the bottom corner is just offset from the layer's corner.
Either way, I think it's really cool that you shared this and think it could be super useful in animations that do use the true bottom corners. Also, pretty funny that you mentioned you're lazy but then wrote all of this out 🤣
@@Skymography Good to know! Yeah, I ran into issues with it at first too, especially if the layer doesn't have a flat bottom. But, it is adding to the original anchor point value (assuming it's in the center for most things), so you could adjust your anchor point manually if needed. I also added the xAdj property, which can shift the X values toward or away from center.
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?
Nevermind figured it out, if the layer doesn't have a scale of exactly 100% it doesn't work.
Man, i love AE but the expression code part is smt els, never learn the full version of it in school 😂
Anyone know how to parent 'Corner Pin' points to null controllers without going haywire? 😮🤔
Oh yea and, great video 😎👍
yooo www.youtube.com/@Skymography, so nice to see you on here 🔥
💖
hey your link doesnt show off to the email address
@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?
Make sure the "p" in anchorPoint is capitalized. It should be:
anchorPoint + value
hope this helps :)
cant get the files throw mail the mail didn't sent to me
Wait. .. you're with School of Motion?!?!?!?
For this video yes :D
@@Skymography It's official. You're a God bro.
Please teach in Davinci resolve. I hate after effects
why would you do this in davinci? just learn after effects
Absolutely loved it! Probably the best channel to come across to learn after effects in these much details! More power to you guys! 🫶
Hi @schoolofmotion , I also didn't receive anything on my email. Is the site working as expected?