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  • Linking Multiple Items Together in a Moving Curve

    Posted by Stewart Goldstein on December 29, 2005 at 6:22 am

    Is there a way to link a bunch of small objects together, and parent them to a moving curve?

    Imagine a bunch of links in a chain. Each link is separate, making up an entire chain, but the chain has to move and curve one way or another.

    Is this something that can be done in After Effects, or will I simply have to make the chain manually?

    Thx,
    Mike

    Mike Clasby replied 20 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Thehardmenpath

    December 29, 2005 at 7:01 am

    I think there are some ways to do it with expressions, which someone better than me on that field can explain.

    For me, the easy way would be to animate an object of the chain, duplicate it and, at the new one, move every keyframe on the timeline some frames later.

  • Black Eye

    December 29, 2005 at 8:21 am

    i think :Create a null objects,make the null move in a curve.The items is separate:)

  • Mike Clasby

    December 29, 2005 at 4:49 pm

    Dan’s page on “Creating Trails” might help:

    https://www.motionscript.com/mastering-expressions/follow-the-leader.html

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