After Effects Expressions Tutorial 5: Expressions on 2D & 3D properties

Learn how to apply expressions to 2D and 3D properties, such that you don’t have to separate dimensions anymore.

On the technical side, you learn what arrays are and we also talk a lot about variables - how you create and use them and why they make your expressions more modular and readable.

Tools used

• iExpressions

Author Notes

In the previous classes of this series, we only applied expressions to properties with a single value - like rotation. For the position of layers, we always separated dimensions such that we could apply expressions to x and y independently. Today you learn how to apply expressions to 2D and 3D properties, such that you don’t have to separate dimensions anymore.

On the technical side, you learn what arrays are and we also talk a lot about variables - how you create and use them and why they make your expressions more modular and readable.

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