How to Keyframe The Wiggle Expression in After Effects

In this tutorial, I'm going to share with you an interesting technique for animating the wiggle expression in After Effects. This allows you to smoothly transition an object from a stationary state to a state of random movement.

At first, I will apply a common wiggle expression to a layer, setting the stage for our animation. The slider control effect then becomes our secret weapon. It's a powerful tool that isn't used often but can be quite handy in managing your animations.

By creating duplicates and appropriately renaming the sliders as 'frequency' and 'amount', we establish clear control points for the wiggle effect. The pick whip tool also comes into play, offering a way to link these sliders to the wiggle expression.

The beauty of this method lies in its flexibility. You're free to animate the frequency, the amount, or both, based on what suits your creative vision. This tutorial is more than a step-by-step guide. My aim is for you to gain some valuable skills and insights into the various ways you can be more inventive with After Effects.

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Time Table:
0:00 Example
0:10 Tutorial
0:56 Customize

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[Toebex]

Insanely useful. First time I have used AE for about 5-6 years and I totally forgot how to do this. Thank you.

[dracutie]

Wow you showed it in a very smart way. Never thought I could control expressions with slider! Thank you so much!

[pixel]

channel name checks out, simply amazing, thank you :3

[jimmy-ssbf]

bro u just saved me so many hours, life saver!

[deekay]

Thanks! on point, no blabla..super! > One thing i missed was the importance of the comma in the Expression...just in case someone gets an error warning, which happended to me.😉

[davidvideostuff]

Thanx Dude You're a life saver !!!! Quick and clear !!!

[jeremiegroleau]

Awesome, thank you so much for your help!

[egidijusbielskis-wizardwor]

Quick and to the point - just like a good tutorial should be ;)

[odunayojohn]

The problem with this is it get's very jagged in the middle. I am animating the wiggle in a way that it goes from no wiggle then as the object floats up, it begins wiggling slowly
but as i keyframe it, the time between frequency 0 and 1.5 is extremely jagged then at 1.5 it continues to be smooth.

[babys]

okay but i want it to wiggle only for some seconds, how do i do that?