Animation Question…

[David Bogie]

The jiggly lines?
Use wiggle on the outlines. Or add the wiggle expression to a ripple effect. Or use displacement.
Cycling the wiggly lines is a bit more complicated. Those frames are often hand-drawn (or the result of three or more steps of distortion) and looped.

bogiesan

[Kevin Camp]

you are asking about the animated hand drawn look of the logo & text, correct?

if you had vector art, you could pretty easily create just a few frames using illustrator using the roughen filter (filter>distort>roughen) then bring those into ae and create a short loop.

but a quick and dirty way in ae would be to create white text, add a black outline and add the turbulent displace effect. set the ‘size’ to something fairly small and animate the evolutions. that should distort it in a similar way.

to create the jerky animation look, either pre-comp that text layer (moving all attributes) or add an adjustment layer over the top and add the posterize time effect, setting it to something like 5 fps.

there are probably several other ways to get that effect too.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Simon Stutts]

Probably the easiest way to achieve that effect is to just hand-draw and then scan in your stuff. Its supposed to be wiggly so you dont have to be precise. Print out your logo, then throw some tracing paper over it. Trace logo 3-4 times. Scan in. Repeat those 3-4 frames over and over again. Done deal.