• Adobe After Effects

  How to animate a 2D stroke/line bending?

  Posted by Jon Elison on January 17, 2008 at 2:58 pm

  Looking to simply take a stroke/line, and bend it up and down. Think like a jump rope, or something like that…

  I’m sure there’s a way to easily do this with included AE effects, right? I’ve messed with the bend effect applied to an image of a 2px line, but it seems to be a bit rough. Then again, may just be me…

  Any input is greatly appreciated!

  Jon Elison replied 18 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Kevin Camp

  January 17, 2008 at 3:38 pm

  you could make a curved path with the pen tool (or copy and paste a vector from an application like illustrator), then apply the stroke effect. stroke gives you control over color, thickness and hardness, along with start and end points.

  it should draw a nice smooth line.

  Kevin Camp
  Senior Designer
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  Jon Elison

  January 17, 2008 at 4:46 pm

  Wow, I can’t believe I’m struggling with something so simple…

  I can’t get a stroke to appear on the paths I’ve imported from Illustrator, or drawn in AE itself… What am I doing wrong here?

  EDIT: Ok, nevermind, got it. Thank you!

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