• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  counter rotation or rotation offset?

  Posted by Malcolm Desoto on November 20, 2012 at 8:54 pm

  Okay, I’m doing some 2D animation.

  I have this head. Parented to to head layer is all of the individual hair layers.

  When I tilt the head on the Z axis, I’d like the hair to rotate with the head so that the ends of the hair remain pointing at the ground.

  I could, of course, keyframe this by hand, but it would be awesome if there were an expression for this.

  See example:
  

  Dan Ebberts

  

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  Dan Ebberts

  November 20, 2012 at 10:42 pm

  It might be as simple as this (if it’s 2D and the parent’s starting rotation is 0:

  value-parent.transform.rotation

  Dan

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