After Effects: Soft Body Fluid Animation Tutorial

In this video, we'll go over how to simulate a soft body distortion effect in After Effects. This technique can be used to create really nice fluid or liquid type movements. The key to this technique is the CC Smear effect. Made props to Hieu Vu for showing me this technique. Don't forget, you can rig this effect up with other effects and expressions to streamline the whole elastic animation. Give it a try and let me know what you guys think.

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[mpbMKE]

I've never seen a practical application of CC Smear before, so this is a neat little technique to file away.

[thefrogue]

thanks so much, this was really helpful!

[CreativeDojo]

Don't forget to play with those keyframe timing/ease curves! It's the key to really selling this effect.

[leftclot]

Thanks a lot i didn't know about this method for creating a soft body look, this is great (:

[HowToAnimateTutorial]

it's so nice effects Dojo. Thank so much

[МиколаТовкмак]

GOOD, but don"t work, when i binded @from@ to position of shape, nothing happens, may be after 2020 have mistake?Also binded to shape anchor point, and path - the risalt is simelar:(.But techniks very interesting.

[diegognoatto]

Bro, im not very good in AE, im trying to do soft body animation for a UI using lottie plugin to render as svg animation on the web, but its been a pain to animate bezier paths correctelly for a beguinner and the plugin that exports for me dont support effects, just svg stuff, so i thought (is there a way i create the animation i want using an effect like u did here, and once is finished i convert it to frame by frame path animation and drop the effect?)

[lorddaisuke]

For some reason, if my circle is curving/bending inside, it doesn't bend outside and vice versa. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

[hannehjmark]

anybody else having issues when trying to buy "Floating server license" for the Soft Body script?

Whenever I try to place it in the basket this message pops up:
"PRODUCT REQUIREMENT: You must already own or add Floating License Server to the cart first to be able to purchase this product."

I also made a profile, but that didn't help :(

[pierrickphoto]

How do you rotate the planet around the sun while moving its position? Me it turns on itself. Thanks!

[ivar_dgtl]

This seems so illogical... Isn't it from (main circle) to (secondary circle?) if I do it like that it works, but if I follow your way it's completely the opposite

[vodkaru]

Doesn't work on images so it's trash