[Emmanuel Gobert]

Thank you for answering, I will try this later

[Emmanuel Gobert]

Hi Dan,
don’t you think it is possible to link the wiggle expression to a slider, and then to put keyframes when it should start and finish ?

[Emmanuel Gobert]

this thing is interessing me too
but, sorry for my bad english, but I don’t understand what you mean by “dead center” …

What treatment should be applied to the footage to obtain the specific color and aspect of super8 film

thanks in advance

[Emmanuel Gobert]

If you’re looking for abstract/ graphic forms, take a look at Evolution DVD : https://www.videocopilot.net/evolution.html
a lot of abstract elements and tutorials on how to use them — but it costs 95$…….

maybe you could design these abstract shapes with brushes in photoshop for example, like in this tutorial https://photoshop8x.com/view_tut.php?id=5… but may be it will be difficult to anime in AE, i don’t know

take also a look at tutorials here:
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/aftereffects.html

some use trapcode particular to create light streaks and abstract forms… if you can install this plug in, may be you could find something interesting there

EDIT: it seems this tutorial explains how to use CC Particle World to create streaks… maybe it could be useful for you: https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial.html?id=29

do you have examples of some shapes you’d like to obtain ?

[Emmanuel Gobert]

Hey, world is small !!

Maybe you need a combination of that : https://www.thedesignworld.com/photoshop-tutorials/filter-effects/tentacles/
and that :
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/hansen_jaysen/growing/index.html

maybe you can create tentacles directly in AE (with the same method used in PS) to play with the distortion while they’re growing…

Do you need something realistic or more abstract ?

[Emmanuel Gobert]

Thanks for answering.
It could works using expressions,
but the problem is : the PRECOMP is bigger than COMP, and i use keyframe to animate PRECOMP… so then,the layer CLIP doesn’t perfectly follow the layer DISK anymore…

In fact it works if I use expressions, and if I link CLIP to PRECOMP… It is not very handly I think, because I loose some control on CLIP (can’t change the scale etc…)