Complex Hair Movement in After Effects

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I made a script. • It animates hair. • It's free. • *I have updated the script since posting this! Please check out the new features here: • AFPHairRig v3.5 - Advanced techniques... • Beginners beware, I'll be covering advanced techniques with expressions and skimming over the basics. • VIDEO BREAKDOWN • 0:00 The problem with animation hair in AE • 1:01 SCRIPT OVERVIEW • 2:32 How to use AFPHairRig • 6:11 layerIndex - Hair strand animation order • 7:34 masterFreq - Speed up and slow down of all hair • 9:45 Freq - Hair strand animation speed and loop • 10:02 Amp - Hair strand bend power • 10:18 FallOff - Hair strand bend power per bone (puppet pin) • 11:36 Offset - Hair strand starting animation location • 12:00 Delay - Hair strand bone offset (puppet pin) • 12:37 WaveMath PhaseLocator - Math needed for script animation • 12:49 Subwave controller overview • 14:30 MASTER_HR_Controller GLOBAL_HR_Controller • 15:36 ART BREAKUP • 16:31 Separating hair from face • 17:24 Painting back in the face • 19:04 Separating hair strands from hair • 21:45 ANIMATING HAIR • 22:01 Importing art assets • 22:25 Puppet pins and setup before running script • 24:04 Running script Null Bone structure • 25:13 Fundamentals complete • 28:15 Adding a gust of wind • 31:43 Adding variance to loop • 32:26 Animating other hair tufts • 33:50 masterOffset - Hair starting animation location • 34:40 Creating proxies to speed up render preview • 34:56 Left hair tuft • 36:24 How to use FallOff controller • 37:33 Final steps • 38:56 FINAL ANIMATION AND THOUGHTS • SCRIPT DOWNLOAD LOCATION (Script only supports After Effects 2015 and later in English. Note: you can change your After Effects language to English if you would like to use the script.) • AFPHairRig.jsx - https://anthonypossobon.com/download/... • DISCORD • Have questions? Join my discord and lets chat! • / discord • ART • Rockin art Messy by Ilya Kuvshinov • / kuvshinov_ilya • / kuvshinov_ilya • MUSIC • Diary of Ideas by VESHZA • Discover by VESHZA • The Turning Point by VESHZA • By My Side by K. Solis • SOFTWARE • Adobe After Effects (duh!) • Adobe Photoshop • Adobe Premiere Pro • Adobe Audition • Sublime Text Editor • WORKSTATION • AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 3.5 GHz 16-Core Processor - https://amzn.to/2t2BSlj • 64GB RAM G.SKILL - https://amzn.to/2GptDrd • GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC Black Edition - https://amzn.to/2GaWe4h • 2 1TB M.2 Samsung 970 PRO Series - https://amzn.to/2GoFF4u • X399 MSI Extended-ATX Motherboard - https://amzn.to/2TqO2Qx • Dell U3419w Ultrasharp 34-Inch - https://amzn.to/319EeP4 • CAMERA GEAR • Sony a7S II - https://amzn.to/2MPcqJ8 • Sony Distagon T FE 35mm f/1.4 ZA - https://amzn.to/2D73Lgz • Zeiss Batis 85mm f/1.8 - https://amzn.to/2MOweML • Rode NTG-2 Microphone - https://amzn.to/2WH13Yn • Viltrox L116T LED - https://amzn.to/2WJghvE • Kamerar D-Fuse Softbox - https://amzn.to/2tdzj01

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