• Adobe After Effects

  Animating Around the Custom Shape

  Posted by Jan Janowski on March 29, 2023 at 1:09 pm

  Hi everyone 🙂

  I am trying to do one thing with animation in AE.
  Is there way to wrap animation along the path?
  Meaning I have kind of pattern / looped movement of some objects that should “wrap around” some custom shape.

  I mean like below, at 0:10 sec:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgo4NWqtXsM
  Or this at 0:03:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8lpJn1fG68

  I found those by accident and honestly I am not sure how is it solved in After Effects.
  I tried to do that by distorting & warping but result was far from expected. Proportions were messed up and I couldn’t wrap around whole object.

  Any thoughts on that will be appreciated 🙂

  

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  Walter Soyka replied 3 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Walter Soyka

  March 29, 2023 at 4:45 pm

  You could probably most easily do this specific animation with text on a path, and characters like the pipe symbol, the apostrophe, hyphens, and dashes.

  For doing this with arbitrary shapes, I’d start with the pointOnPath() expression. I’ve demonstrated its use in this thread:
  https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/bendable-line-with-balls/

  bendable line with balls

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