thanks for replying – right now im only looking to affect the background – the animation in this case is frame by frame hand drawn birds… the challenge is that I’m looking to affect ‘texture’ file that is raster tiff file – with this drawn animation bird which has alpha….

the proximity expression and the toolkit seems to work with vector files…

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@Andy thanks! this looks promising as well!

will try them and revert with what worked best for my project

Thanks @graham will try this and see if it can affect position as well

I have these birds on separate layers – (one bird marked with green arrow)

these are flying and moving

and I have a background of ‘squiggly’ lines – almost a texture in the background.

How can I make the lines in the background layer move away and around the birds as they fly about —— (marked in blue arrows)

This would make it look like the bir…

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