That art school animation jittery look

[Mylenium]

You may keep your wiggle, but in addition to that you may wanna stylice your layer with some effects. If you go to my website, you can find several “painterly styles” projects that might give you at least some point to start.

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[Erin Patrick]

When I had a client that wanted this type of style, I created precomps of the illustrations that I had traced 3 or 4 times, letting the versions vary slightly. Put one illustration per frame in the precomp. Then create hold keyframes on that precomp in the bigger comp with the timewarp effect set to frame number, to let each version of the illustration be on screen for about 3 frames. Then add a loop expression, and you should have a pretty jittery drawing that you can animate in another comp.

Hope that helps!

[Jonathan Miller]

Ha!

I just delivered a spot today using this style.
eriness is right-on, you want to create 3 slightly different versions of each graphic to get the jitter or wiggle.

However, I simply imported them as photoshop or PNG sequences at 10 frames per second and then looped them 100 times. This gave me a “movie” that was long enough to work with for my :30 spot. I could have made them longer by setting the “loop” higher if needed.

I hope that helps. The jitter/wiggle is much more pronounced in an uncompressed movie. Kind of dissapears a little in an MPEG-4.

Good luck!

Jon
TreeLine Productions
Fort Collins, CO USA

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[Joshua Ferg]

Smoke a joint and examine Sgt Peppers Album cover for…say….three hours or so. Then cut the images you want to use in PS, bring them into AE and set them as 3-d layers. Set their Z posistions, add a light and camera and….viola.

[Ace Billet]

Best advice ever .

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[Ace Billet]

Joints and Sgt. Pepper aside,
eriness, you mind explaining this to us stoners ?
I’m kinda new to AE7 and not know all the bells and whistles of TimeWarp.
(or did you just mean good old time remap)
Can you use an expression to toggle hold keyframes or is this all hand labor ?

cheers
ace

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