• Adobe After Effects

  stroke text wiggle

  Posted by Dan Arthur on April 23, 2005 at 12:38 pm

  I’m trying to take a text layer that has only stroke and no fill for the text and make the outlines of the letters vibrate in a random “sinewave” style, sort of like the vibrating animation style to the cartoons “Dr. Katz” or “Home Movies”. I figure I need to apply the wiggler or the scribble effect, but can’t get anything to apply to the stroke styled text. Any suggestions?

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  Jason Brown replied 15 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  April 23, 2005 at 2:53 pm

  It seems like you should be able to do it with displacement manpping. I’d try Turbulent Displace and start with Amount = 35 and Size = 3, keyframing Evolution at about 3 or 4 revolutions per second.

  Dan
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  Dan Arthur

  April 23, 2005 at 6:47 pm

  Dan,
  That did it – _exactly_ what I was looking for. Thanks very much!
  -Dan

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  Mathieu Foucher

  November 5, 2009 at 5:16 pm

  thank you very much, also exactly what i have been looking for.
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  Jason Brown

  December 4, 2010 at 2:05 am

  I LOVE searching the cow and finding EXACTLY what I needed…I had to tweak the amount / size and evolution…but perfect effect!

  Thanks Dan!

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