Character effects of Adobe After Effects

This is a blog post to collect effects which can be used for a character.

Basic usages

• When you alt-click a stopwatch icon on the left of Transform property like Position, then it shows Expression for it to change an animation using an expression.

Move

Written in 2026/06/27

We can use a layer's move by a function like wiggle(1, 5). This means the value changes about 1 time per second, with up to 5 pixels of variation from the original position.

For example, next animation is with wiggle(4, 20) in Position property.