Coding & Expressions
AE Pencil Boil
Frustrated with lifeless After Effects shapes? Tired of basic boil expressions that lack the character of hand-drawn animation? Well, have we got a solution for you.
With a few lines of code, you can go from rigid vector graphics to rough pencil boils in seconds. With the ability to adjust the framerate as well as the amount of boil, you can adjust your look 'til it's just right.
Follow the video above and copy the expressions to the right to get that sweet, sweet boil.
Expression:
Turbulent Displacement (size):
//variables
holdTime = .1;
//expressions
seed = Math.floor(time/holdTime);
seedRandom(seed,true);
random(4)
Turbulent Displacement (evolution):
//variables
frameRate = 12;
amountOfBoil = 360;
//expressions
posterizeTime(frameRate);
wiggle(frameRate,amountOfBoil);
Roughen Edges (evolution):
//variables
holdTime = .1;
//expressions
seed = Math.floor(time/holdTime);
seedRandom(seed,true);
random(360)