Simple Squiggling Line - Adobe After Effects tutorial 

2:10 - Add new shape layer - Draw straight line. Select shape > Add Zig-Zag. 2:40 - Add Trim paths. Adjust trim paths for one cycle. Animate postition for remain centered. 4:45 - Add loopOut() expression.

Whoever asked for this tutorail, thank you! xD

I really love your shift in focus into more simple things, The more we know the base of simple stuff, the easier it becomes to make more advance work. Thank you for showing us the simple stuff really!

OMG We need a 10 hours squiggle on RU-vid, I'd watch that forever.

Thank You! I was trying to use an effect with no luck, this is the exact feel I was hoping for.

I have used this very squiggly line in so many of my projects at work to speed up the workflow, thanks for this!

I didn’t need this. but your delivery was so good, and your teaching method was so good… i watched anyway. I am getting into after effects, and I already know you’re worth subbing to. Thank you for putting this stuff out here!

I would appreciate if you could explain the "math" you did so we could apply the same effect on different paths.

probably best 5mins today. thx.

Thnaks Man , you always make things simple and creative

You are incredible man, thank you very much!

OH MY GOD! I LOVE YOUR LOGO ANIMATION/ INTRO & BEAT IN THE BEGINNING! wow! inspiring!

If your want to make the line in 1920 x 1080 than Pos: 312 -312 Offset: 117 End: 67

Nice one, Evan!

Hi. I love your tutorials. Thank you so much from Brasil!

More short length straight forward video like this. Thanks for sharing Sir 🙏

this is a great tutorial, thank you for making it so quick, concise and at the same time full of useful information

Thank you! You're a genius!

Great video! I'm a total beginner to After Effects so it seemed a bit fast but I was definitely able to follow on. Thanks for sharing!

Love your work mate, good stuff!

Thanks for the quick and clear tutorial!

Thank you, Evan! This tutorial helped me a lot!

Requested for this tutorial tried doing it with wave warp but @ECAbrams made it even more easier. Thank You So Much.

every single video you make is so freaking helpful.

these ones are pretty cool. A quick tutorial with a simple effect, nice

Thank you so much dude.... Helped me a lot

YOU ARE A GOD... NO QUESTION ABOUT IT

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I've been messing around with Lottie and the one thing I have been struggling with is recreating the squiggle effect I can get with wave warp with no effects added. Thank you thank you thank you!

thank u so much.

Really cool, thanks for every single of your tutorials

Thank you, I always learn something new with your tutorials.

Thanks! you explained it super simple!

Thank you so much!

Thanks for the tutorial. Can you give us the ecuation that you've made for the position?

This is great. I was stuck until you taught to trim AFTER the zigzag layer. Thank you!

I really enjoyed this tutorial. It was sooo helpful!!! You got one more subscriber

Just amazing, thanks for sharing!

Very important! Thank you

Great Tutorial, Appriciate that.

hey thank u for this! i actually enjoy watching this + ur narrative is rly entertaining (in a way?? like talking with a friend!) thank you!:D

It's very useful tutorial. I wanted a tutorial like this. Thank you so much!

Nice!! Thanks for all the other tutorials!!

Great job! I used it for my work

OMG this is gold thank you so much!!!!

As someone who started learning After Effects a week ago, this tutorial is perfect because it is: short and succinct, visually clean and interesting, and allows viewers like me to further explore it's possibilities. Thank you!

Thank you so much for this!!

Man, you just nailed it!

Just Loved It its amazing

thank you

You rock. Thank you!!!!

you read my mind, thanks for giving us this

Wonderful! Thanks for your tuts!!

thx you this is so useful!

This is cool, though there is another way to achieve the same effect using the wave warp effect. I made a single, straight stroke and made sure the anchor point was at the start of the path, then applied wave warp to the stroke. I was making several of these lines flowing out from an object so I would have to rotate them varying degrees. So I'd duplicate the stroke layer and whatever I changed the rotation of the shape layer to, I'd then match the direction setting in the wave warp effect to that number. I found this works well and you get pretty much the same result as this method, though I like that it's pretty easy to just change the speed, wave width, etc. in the wave warp panel, but without key-framing. It may not be as mathematically precise, but works. Anyway, thanks for all the helpful tutorials!

Love your videos and your work. Fantastic! 😘😎

That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks man you're awesome :)

The perfect loop breaks when I try to adjust the zig zag effect. Is there any fix for this?

Was waiting for it thanks a lot

so~ good Tutorial!!

simple and great

youre the man evan!!

Evan, I realize this is an old tut, but really, it is fantastic, you really have done a great job.. now, I am a fan. and a sub :)

Hey! I requested that! Good genuine smile to finish my day. :)

OMG love this tutorial, saved me

Thank you! Very useful!

Super helpful thanks!

Thank you very much for this!

thank you a lot!

!WOW! TKS!!!

Great explanation!

This video saved me! Thank you so much!

THANK YOU

Thanks very much!👍

Mine looks almost nothing like yours, but I have no idea why. I'm new and dumb. But this is a cool tutorial.

Muito obrigado. Explicou muito bem. Tive um pouco de dificuldade mas consegui fazer.

people asked, and here it is! nice tut

Omg, thanks for this tutorial, love u bro!

awesome, thanks!

cool video, thanks

👍🏼👍🏼 thank you!

thanks! I used this method to animate steam coming out of a cup.

Thank you Evan! I'm only trying to understand what kind of math did you use to get the line back in the middle?

Thanks, again!

Hey Evan, great tutorial! I'm trying to achieve the same result, and I've followed this tutorial exactly like you've done but for some reason when i looped something goes wrong and my animation isn't fluid and idk what can be.

thank so much pro

The 'math' is quite important so that we can understand how to make it loop smoothly..

THANK YOU!!

How do you find the center for the transformation in the position?

I think this is proof you read your comments! Thanks for this Evan!

Lookin real Charley Browny lol! Great Tuts!

Thanks so much! Can you share equation for math dumbs dumbs? Trying to do 5 ridges per segment and guessing position values is NOT working. :(

i love you. why did I discover you at 250k..... :\ Man so many usefull videos!!!! keep the innovation up!!!! You have a really awesome channel

Wave Warp and 10 sec

thanx for video

I am searching this for a while

that is awesome, thank you so much! maybe for next can you give us tutorial about rendering ? wich codec is best for good quality but smaller in file size?

Cool!

I got it to stay in the same place but the looping is choppy still. Any suggestions?

Saw this very effect as part of a blurb on the BBC earlier this evening, they're quick off the mark ;)

Is it possible to make the zigzag more irregular looking? Like not a simple squiggly but a more dynamic squiggly.