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Animating Wavy Lines
I have several shape layers in a comp that a really nothing more than wavy lines created with a rotobezier tool and have a 20-something pixel stroke to them. What I’d like to do is randomly animate the lines “waving” and flowing, but so far I can’t figure out how I might do this. What I’d LIKE to do is animate the position of the anchor points, but to my knowledge, you can’t do that.
What should I do?
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Yes, the position of the anchor point can be animated just like any other property, but I’m not sure that’ll accomplish what you want to do and wouldn’t necessarily be the easiest approach either.
Sorry I don’t recall the names of individual plugins well enough and don’t always recall which ones came with AE and which ones are third party, but there are a number of them that’ll do what you’ve described. In fact, almost any of them in the Distort folder depending on the exact look you’re going for, although some will make it harder than need be. I think the easiest ones are called something like Wave Warp and Ripple.
I hope this helps.
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You could also make the wavy lines a lot longer (several screens wide) and have them go right and left…
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