AE has an effect called Reshape, which can work in some situations, but I’ve never had it look good. Puppet pin acheives better results, if you subject is organic looking.

For hard surface reshaping, there’s a third party plugin called Layer Sculptor, It’s does this amzingly well. Set it to reference mask mode if you don’t need the transform animated.

If you copy and paste Dan Ebberts text, it throws up a syntax error casue the quatation marks copy wrong.

Here’s a fixed version

d = new Date();

“Date: ” + d.getDate() + “/” + (d.getMonth()+1) + “/” + d.getFullYear();

Also here’s a version which pads the zeros.

d = new Date();

function padZeros(n){

if(n <= 9){

return “0” + n;

}

return n

}

“Date: ” +…

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