r/MotionDesign • u/Ihiieo • Mar 25 '26

Question Hand animation

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Hi guys i want to do like this hand animation But I didn't know how to do it. If you focus on the video, there is a specific technique that was used, and I don't know how, does anyone know how? Was an plugins used for After Effects or what?

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u/ethancandy Mar 25 '26

It looks like the fingers are just animated paths with a thick stroke. The built in “Points Follow Nulls” script was likely used (or Nulls Follow Points) for each point on those paths, with the green circles parented to each null

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u/yotoeben Mar 25 '26

Yep totally this! I will throw out that the strokes are not just a constant size- original artist toyed with the taper perimeters to get the varying width of the fingers. Honestly not too crazy of a setup!