What’s this effect ? (Jiggy animation)

[Eric Sanderson]

Theres an effect in AE called scribble that can give you that look, looks like there could also be some posterized time applied to it (or its just playing back chunky because im rendering from 2 programs on my computer as im watching it)

[Kevin Camp]

also a wiggle expression on the line layer’s position property would give a natural ‘camera shake’ like movement.

enable expressions for a layer’s position (select the position property, the choose animation>add expression). type an expression like this:

wiggle(2,5)

this will ‘wiggle’ the layer by changing the position value ‘2’ times per second at an amount of ‘5’ pixels. you can create smoother or more shaky results by modifying the values in the ().

for more on the wiggle expression (and expressions in general) look up expressions in the ae help file…

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Alp Tekyildiz]

Thanks a lot, the Wiggle expression was what I needed. Just another question though, what I’m animation are the lines of country borders on a map. The lines are all one layer so when I animate their position, they all move together. I was wondering if there was a distortion effect I could use that would reproduce the video’s shaky feel without looking like all the borders are one object.

Thanks a bunch.

[Jeremy Allen]

Somebody suggested Turbulent Displacement for a similar effect in another thread.. Maybe give that a try

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[Alp Tekyildiz]

The turbulent displacement works pretty well actually. Thanks for that.

[Jeremy Allen]

No problem, glad i could help!

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