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  • Creating ‘Pong’ game animation in After Effects

    Posted by Lance Clayton on December 27, 2011 at 11:28 am

    Hey all,

    I have trawled the net but can’t find a tutorial on creating a simple 2D pong game animation in After Effects.

    Other than key framing every movement of the ball and the two bats, the only method that I can think of is to parent the vertical movement of one of the bats to the ball, but it would still need to move randomly a bit otherwise it would look very ‘locked’ onto the ball (and then I’d still have to deal with the second bat!).

    Does anyone know a tutorial for this or have a better way of approaching this animation?

    Thanks

    Michael Szalapski replied 14 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Michael Szalapski

    December 27, 2011 at 4:11 pm

    You can add a wiggle expression to a parented layer to give it randomness.

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