AE Scripts

From Publication Station

On this page you will find a series of guides to create short animations combined into one. You will be adding Scrips into Adobe After Effects.
For this demo I chose the words 'Visual Coding' + square shape + the colours #260340 and #d3e52b on a 5:4 canvas ratio.

Guide: Text Reveal/ Countdown

This short assignment demonstrate how to create a generative text animation.
Countdown s.gif

skills wiggle expression
time to complete 10 minutes

step 1
write text on your background (or solid background layer for creating GIFs).
center your anchor point [ - command double-click on your anchor icon - ]
CountDown1.png

step 2
open your text layer > animate > character offset
CountDown2.png

step 3
Alt + Stopwatch >wiggle (4,40)
CountDown3.png

step 4
Range Selector >offset
Stopwatch on 0% >keyframe 100%
Adjust keyframe to you will: closer to the beginning for shorter countdown, further for longer countdown.
CountDown4.png
CountDown6.png

step 5
Advanced > Random order ON
Random seed: 6

CountDown7.png

Guide: Multiple Wiggles

This short assignment demonstrate how to adjust multiple layers at the same time.
WiggelingSquares s.gif

skills wiggle expression
layer control expression
time to complete 17 minutes

step 1
create multiple shape on your background/ solid.
WigglingSquares1.png

step 2
add a Null layer > rename it 'control'.
WigglingSquares2.png
WigglingSquares2B.png

step 3
add Expressions Effect > Slider Control to your control layer.
WigglingSquares3.png

step 4
add another slider with command D and name them: Time and Position.
Lock the Effects panel to keep it visible.
WigglingSquares4B.png

step 5
Open the top layer's Position and Alt-click the Stopwatch.
Write wiggle and keep the brackets empty.
connect the values with the Time , Position sliders using the PickWhip.
WigglingSquares5.png

step 6
control-click (right-click) the Position stop watch > select 'Copy Expression Only'
WigglingSquares6.png

step 7
select all there rest of the shape layers > paste.

step 8
You can now adjust the wiggle values of all the layers together.
WigglingSquares8.png



Guide: Random Color

  • Depending on the setting, you may have to select everything in your graphic you want to plot
  • You can also set what you want to cut through the window highlighted in the screenshot.

Cut options.png

  • To make the knife start cutting/drawing in a given position on the piece of vinyl/paper, move the knife with the arrows and press the button "Set Origin" on the plotter. Then tick the "Move to origin box on the Roland Cut Studio extension window as shown here.

Move to origin window.png

Recommended Tutorials

You can watch our pre-tested video tutorials to create the above and more.
1. introduction to Expressions
2. Things Wiggle can do
3. Wiggle multiple objects
4. Flicker/ Glitch
5. Random letter reveal
6. Random options
7. Random XYZ Position
8. Five copy-paste Expressions
9. Adobe Expressions Examples
10. Using ChatGPT to Create AE Animations