• Adobe After Effects

  Rotate or orbit?

  Posted by Paula Zimmerman on October 8, 2016 at 1:14 am

  I followed this tutorial to do a simple wheel rotation in 2D- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3LJrSDTiws
  I parented the wheels to the car layer. When I pickwhip the wheel rotation expressions to the x position of the car, the wheels orbit off the car instead of rotating in place. This is a screenshot of my AE comp-
  10670_carmotion.mov.zip I did notice that his expressions don’t change value and mine do. Why is this? I’ve spent hours with this and it doesn’t make sense why it won’t work. Is there some internal reset in AE to make this work right?

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  Paula Zimmerman replied 9 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Greg Gesch

  October 8, 2016 at 1:46 am

  Hi Paula. Are the anchor points at the center of the wheels? If not, use the Pan Behind tool (shortcut Y) to place them in the center (don’t use the anchor point setting in the layer’s Transform Properties which will just move the wheels around). Was that the issue?
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  Paula Zimmerman

  October 8, 2016 at 1:57 am

  That was it! Now it works perfectly! Thank you! I knew it had to be something simple.

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