Doodle Blog

Bit of a longshot posting here but I'm relearning after effects after a decade away and familiarizing myself with expression controls. I'm attempting to make a little animation where the steps between the white square and the blue square (background) are even in color and size and a little offset on the rotation.

My expression for the scaling "steps" looks like this:

base=thisComp.layer(index-1).transform.scale//layer above layerbelow=thisComp.layer(index+1).transform.scale//layer beneath this layer value=(base+layerbelow)/2

Very basic, works like a charm in the first animation where there's only one step.

As soon as I add additional steps by duplicating the step layer it starts freaking tf out. I tried precomping and rendering, which gives me similar (but not exact?!) results.

Funny you should ask! I'm between jobs right now because I just suddenly moved back to my home state (not tragic! My partner just got a dream job!) and am open for commissions.

My real criteria for commissions is just like, there's a non zero chance that when I put up an open commission thing people ask me to draw themselves, a relative, or whatever, and you never know if someone thinks the big mole on their nose is a charm point or a point of sensitivity. That and like. Optimus Prime.