Jake Bartlett : Hey, it's Jake Bartlett again for school of motion. And this is lesson two of our tapered stroke rig using expressions. Now, if you made it through chapter one of this lesson, you sho…
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Jake Bartlett : The first thing I thought of was just the ability to reverse the taper. So the thick end is on this side and tapers out in the opposite direction. Another great thing to have would be…
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Jake Bartlett : And if you remember, when we first built this taper, the original equation we wrote for the duplicate groups, stroke width was tapering in the opposite direction. So we already kind o…
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Jake Bartlett : Well, we need to use, what's called a conditional statement. And a conditional statement is just another type of expression that you can set conditions for. And if those conditions ar…
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Jake Bartlett : So if the reverse taper equals one and in a conditional statement, the syntax for equals is actually two equal signs together. And one is the value when the checkbox is checked. So if…
Description:
Continue building a tapered stroke rig in After Effects in this second part of a video tutorial series. Learn how to add advanced features like reversing the taper direction and creating independent tapers from the center. Follow along step-by-step to implement conditional statements and checkbox controls that enable these new capabilities. Gain a deeper understanding of expressions and how to leverage them to create a more versatile and powerful stroke animation tool in After Effects.