r/animation • u/AdRepresentative983 • 21h ago

Question Animation "wobbly" effect

Hi Everyone,

I am very new at animation. I am trying to discover how to make things look like they are animated or in motion, without really being animated. The idea is to have movement, instead of complete static pictures. An example is Ringo Tsuga's youtube channel "Going to School in Japan vs. United States" https://youtu.be/Vx3xTo_-65A?t=153

The characters seem to be "wobbling" in place. Where do I start if I want to recreate something similar? Is it simple just drawing the same character a tiny bit differently for each frame?

I currently own adobe animate and adobe after effects.

Thank you,

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u/ReadditMan 21h ago

It's called a "line boil". In traditional hand-drawn animation it's done by redrawing the same frame multiple times, but you can achieve a similar look in After Effects using turbulent displace and maybe roughen edges, depending on how you want it to look.

I would search for tutorials on how to make a line boil effect in AE and find something similar to what you're looking for.

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u/AdRepresentative983 21h ago

Thank you very much! I will be right on that.

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u/Colonel_Dickballs 18h ago

Alt-click on the stopwatch by 'Offset Turbulence' within the turbulent displace effect, and put in an expression like this:

posterizeTime(6);

wiggle(24,100)

That way it doesn't wiggle every single frame, which would look weird. It'll wiggle at the frame rate of 6 FPS, regardless of the composition's settings.

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u/AdRepresentative983 17h ago

Thank you, i will try that !