Complex Hair Movement in After Effects

I made a script. It animates hair. It’s free. *I have updated the script since posting this! Please check out the new features here: Beginners beware, I’ll be covering advanced techniques with expressions and skimming over the basics. VIDEO BREAKDOWN 0:00 The problem with animation hair in AE 1:01 *SCRIPT OVERVIEW* 2:32 How to use AFPHairRig 6:11 layerIndex - Hair strand animation order 7:34 masterFreq - Speed up and slow down of all hair 9:45 Freq - Hair strand animation speed and loop 10:02 Amp - Hair strand bend power 10:18 FallOff - Hair strand bend power per bone (puppet pin) 11:36 Offset - Hair strand starting animation location 12:00 Delay - Hair strand bone offset (puppet pin) 12:37 WaveMath & PhaseLocator - Math needed for script animation 12:49 Subwave controller overview 14:30 MASTER_HR_Controller & GLOBAL_HR_Controller 15:36 *ART BREAKUP* 16:31 Separating hair from face
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