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  • Magnify and bulge following a parented layer

    Posted by Pierre Lenfestey on June 18, 2019 at 8:42 am

    Hi all

    I can’t find any solutions to this online and would love some help.

    I’m trying to get a bulge effect to follow a layer with an illustration of a magnifying glass. This is fine when I just want the position of the bulge to follow the image (an expression linking the centre of the bulge to the position of the image). The problem comes when I want to rotate the magnifying glass around an anchor point outside of the image, as if the magnifying glass is held by a hand and the rotation comes from the wrist.

    As soon as I use a null, the relative position seem to mess up the expressions and precomping just messes up the link to the bulge.

    Hope that makes sense.

    Pierre Lenfestey replied 6 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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