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Activity Forums Adobe After Effects Create multiple objects spiral out of Center Evenly

  • Ridley Walker

    March 6, 2013 at 8:51 pm

    How about parenting the layers to a null object and rotating the null while the layers move towards (or away from) the centre of the comp?

    see this example: 5600_spiralnull.aep.zip

  • Kevin Camp

    March 6, 2013 at 9:44 pm

    animating the rotation of the layer and it’s anchor point can achieve a similar animation if for some reason using a parent won’t work for you… though i think a parent would be advantageous here.

    Kevin Camp
    Senior Designer
    KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

  • Adam Kois

    March 6, 2013 at 10:07 pm

    Thanks,

    Figured something out:

    1. create in and out for position ( just straight no curve in path )
    2. create a null
    3. parent object to null
    4. rotate null with same in and out lets say 180 degrees
    5. then counter the rotation on your objects (-180)

    ^^ similar to a ferris wheel i guess

    Also can probably just create a path that is close to a spiral. Duplicate it > rotate > and copy paths to corresponding objects

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