The Secret to Creating Dynamic Bends in After Effects

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Create this bending rig in After Effects with a simple expression!
Download the corresponding project files here: www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/d...
Expressions can be scary if you’ve never used them before. And even if you have, you may be avoiding them because who the heck wants to code?! But here’s the thing... After Effects expressions can make the impossible possible, the impractical practical, and the complicated simple. Sky will show you how to use a simple expression called if/else to help you animate things like color and anchor point position automatically so you don’t have to spend tons of time rigging and keyframing. The end result is a simple setup that gives you complex looking animation, with barely any work.
Sky used VideoCopilot’s free FX Console, which you can grab at: www.videocopilot.net/tutorial...
Check out Sky's KZfaq channel: / @skymography
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Intro 00:00:00
What is If/Else? 00:00:20
How It Works in After Effects 00:01:01
The Expression in a Practical Application 00:07:52
Let's Start Animating! 00:11:24
Finishing Touches 00:24:53

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@Skymography 3 ай бұрын

Was a pleasure to be hosted on the channel for this video, hope you all learn something from this :) And definitely share with us if you make something using these techniques!

@kyy. 3 ай бұрын

the collab of the century wtffff

@emretartici 2 ай бұрын

I clicked on the video to learn after effects tips and came out as a software developer. thank you :) this expression thing is crazy

@orangewedge 3 ай бұрын

As a distortion-obsessed animator, I fouind this tutorial to be EXCELLENT.

@mauroangst 3 ай бұрын

I click out of curiosity and I learned a LOT, bending was just an excuse to serve knowledge

@asishmarandy 3 ай бұрын

one of the best video to learn the core animation of Aftereffects. Just Love It

@erfuniti3570 3 ай бұрын

Working with expressions is all fun. Thanks

@AlexPresa 3 ай бұрын

Was so fun to follow along and feel like I levelled up in my skills, thank you so much.

@maotao2441 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, I've been using two nulls to do the rotation animation in your case and I've never thought of using expressions to change the anchor points...Such an easy but helpful trick. Also for the flickering trick, I've been keyframing the value for wiggle....Life saver tricks, my knees down here😆😆

@MontinaroGabriele 3 ай бұрын

I love seeing real-life objects animated in absurd ways, amazing video!

@AharonRabinowitz 3 ай бұрын

I LOVED THIS. What a great use of If/Else.

@Skymography 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for being so supportive throughout the making of this video! It's been great working with the SoM team :-)

@johanorrego2364 2 ай бұрын

Skymography is a fantastic instructor. I loved this. Great collab!

@LJPMedia 2 ай бұрын

Great tutorial and cool, simple animation! Besides being a smart rig, lots of other cool little workflow ideas in here - a couple of my favorites were 1) using Masks set to "none" with a Fill effect to add the bg shapes to the layers, and 2) using Adjustment layers w Transform fx for camera moves... Always great to be reminded of different/simpler ways of doing things! Thanks for sharing!

@KareemMetwally 2 ай бұрын

Great video, thank you for sharing these techniques

@hawkhawkvideo 3 ай бұрын

beastly! very clean tut! Absolutely no waste

@raymondramdass633 3 ай бұрын

That was incredible!! learned so much so quick

@rgarlinyc 3 ай бұрын

Very cool, and very well explained! thankya!

@oRustam 3 күн бұрын

crazy, just crazy. thank you! very cool

@painted_in_thick 3 ай бұрын

excellent sense to spread knowledge

@Chewbacca2000 2 ай бұрын

Thanks man!!

@diegoandresvargas24 3 ай бұрын

I love this chanel ! Nice job guys 🎉

@GBVisuals 3 ай бұрын

Squiggly might be my new favorite word. Great tut Sky🧑‍🍳

@bobs_backyard 3 ай бұрын

Great way to explain some capabilities of AE.

@NyoraiFidesTV 2 ай бұрын

Gold tutorial!

@psychod74 3 ай бұрын

Excellent fast tuto ! :) even the part for flicker is nice, a tuto about animation text would be dope !

@AtaurRaziq 3 ай бұрын

Damn sky from making videos just recently to school of motion already. Amazing. Great content as usual.

@Skymography 3 ай бұрын

@YoyoEXE2000 2 ай бұрын

I like this thank you!!

@doodlve 2 ай бұрын

Power of expressions

@v.shukla30_ 3 ай бұрын

Skyyyyy, Glad to see you here on school of motion 😍

@eduardonocetti5171 3 ай бұрын

Does he have his own channel?

@AharonRabinowitz 3 ай бұрын

@@eduardonocetti5171 It's listed above. www.youtube.com/@Skymography

@bhupeshdhami 2 ай бұрын

@@eduardonocetti5171 yes, his channel's name is Skymography

@melihkaya1461 2 ай бұрын

Thank you knka

@lopsangdlama 2 ай бұрын

what a wonderful way to use If/else: I would have used null layer to control the rotation on opposite side

@anouarozgar 3 ай бұрын

Damn this guy is good teacher

@StephenProffitt 3 ай бұрын

DOPE!!

@sanjitfx1862 2 ай бұрын

i think first we cut the tower in photoshop and then import psd in AE

@natevplas 2 ай бұрын

Great tutorial! I'm lazy, so I found it annoying to have to manually enter in the Anchor Point values. I adjusted your Anchor Point expression to automatically find the bottom corners. Here it is: var layer = thisLayer; var xAdj = 1; //shift corner on X, = 0){ anchorA }else{ anchorB }

@Skymography 2 ай бұрын

Haven't tested this out but this is great of you to share! I initially wrote an expression to find the bottom left and right anchor points but found it to be too distracting from the main tutorial, and more importantly -- the bottom corners aren't always where the anchor point needs to go! On the top-most piece of the tower, the bottom corner is just offset from the layer's corner. Either way, I think it's really cool that you shared this and think it could be super useful in animations that do use the true bottom corners. Also, pretty funny that you mentioned you're lazy but then wrote all of this out 🤣

@natevplas 2 ай бұрын

@@Skymography Good to know! Yeah, I ran into issues with it at first too, especially if the layer doesn't have a flat bottom. But, it is adding to the original anchor point value (assuming it's in the center for most things), so you could adjust your anchor point manually if needed. I also added the xAdj property, which can shift the X values toward or away from center.

@cessers 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Sky. Great job. I'm curious why you chose a slider instead of an angle control. Cheers!

@Skymography 3 ай бұрын

It was the first thing on my mind at the time, but an angle control would totally work too!

@mervinmonfort 3 ай бұрын

yooo www.youtube.com/@Skymography, so nice to see you on here 🔥

@jaysonfontela5761 2 ай бұрын

💖

@RADIOMETRIC_ 3 ай бұрын

great tutorial! although i also use slider controls for rotation most of the time, is there a reason for not using a rotation controller on a rotation property? thx

@Skymography 3 ай бұрын

Either works. Honestly I forgot the angle control was a thing for that part of the tutorial hahaha, at the end of the day it's just something to link the values to. Use what you like!

@SUPXRSUP 2 ай бұрын

Awesome tutorial, although when I did this myself, the expression used for making sure layer stayed in the same spot after the anchor points switched, didn't work. It doesnt shift it the right amount... followed everything step by step too. Any pointers?

@SUPXRSUP 2 ай бұрын

Nevermind figured it out, if the layer doesn't have a scale of exactly 100% it doesn't work.

@thaitran2567 2 ай бұрын

Man, i love AE but the expression code part is smt els, never learn the full version of it in school 😂

@user-cu1qk1uv3d 2 ай бұрын

@Skymography hey bro, I still face an error on 'anchorpoint + value' , when I applied on position my layer is still teleporting when using rotation. How can I fix that?

@Skymography 2 ай бұрын

Make sure the "p" in anchorPoint is capitalized. It should be: anchorPoint + value hope this helps :)