Understanding the Wiggly selector

Use the Wiggly selector to create selections that "wiggle," or vary by a specified amount, over time. You can add one or more Wiggly selectors to an animator group, and that animator group can contain one or more properties.

To see how the Wiggly selector affects an animation, see Animating the position of individual characters and using the Wiggly selector.

The Wiggly selector includes the following properties:

Mode

Specifies the way each selector combines with the selectors above it, similar to how multiple masks combine when you apply a Mask mode. For example, if you want to wiggle only a specific word, use a Range selector on that word and then add a Wiggly selector and set it to Intersect mode.

Max and Min Amount

Specifies the amount of variation from the selection.

Wiggles/Second

Specifies how many variations from the set selection occur per minute.

Correlation

Specifies to what percentage the variations are correlated to the characters in the text layer. At 100%, all characters wiggle by the same amount at the same time, and at 0%, all characters wiggle independently.

Temporal and Spatial Phase (revolutions + degrees)

Specifies the variation of wiggle, based on the phase of your animation in time (temporal) or per character (spatial). You can use this to change the Seed, or starting time, for slightly different animations.

Lock Dimensions

Scales the wiggled selection's dimensions by the same value. This is useful when wiggling the Scale property.