 Hello everybody. Welcome back to another Adobe After Effects tutorial. In this one, I'm going to show you this effect here. This is a floating type effect, a random wiggle. I guess you could call it a levitation. Basically, it gives an organic look to a image. We basically make it float and we make it move around, but it looks like it's organic as opposed to being a static image or an animated image. So here's how you do it. I'm going to show you again, this is what it looks like and it's a little more than I would normally do, but I just want to show you the effect in action. So let's delete all of this and start from scratch. I'll even delete all this. Let's just go like you just opened up After Effects. Okay, so you're in After Effects. The first thing I do, I go to my Finder. If you're on a PC, it'll be your Windows Explorer. And I'm going to drag and drop in the image, the video that I want first. So here's the video and it's just this robot and I'm going to drag and drop that in. The next thing I'll do is I'm going to click on this here in my project panel and I'm going to drag it onto new composition. When I do that, I create a brand new composition with just that robot or whatever video you're working on. Could be something you just edited, maybe something out of Premiere Pro, whatever you're working on, all good. Now I'm going back into my Finder. If you're on a PC, again, you'll be using Windows Explorer. And I'm going to grab the object or the item that I want to float or levitate or wiggle or whatever you want to call it. Okay, so here it is. And in this case, it's a chat bubble. It's kind of blacked out here, but that's because the chat bubble is black. So I'm going to grab that PNG or JPEG or whatever you're working on and a drag and drop that. I'm going to put that on top of the original video. If it goes underneath here, you won't see it. So you got to make sure that this is at the top of the layer stack. Now here it is. Now it's not quite in the right place. So I'm just going to click on it and move it in. If I want to make it bigger or smaller, I'll click on one of the outer edges. I'm going to hold down the shift key, and then I'm just going to make it a little bigger, something like that. So let's position it maybe somewhere around there. I don't know, something like that. It's just a demo. Of course, you can do whatever you want in your own video. Now we want to get into the good stuff. How do we make it float or levitate or wiggle or all those different terms you could use? Easy. First step, click on that little triangle beside the image or the object that you're trying to animate or levitate or whatever you want to call it. Click that triangle, click on transform. And when you do that, you'll see a whole bunch of stopwatches, anchor point, position scale, etc. All we want to do is we need to hold down the option key on a Mac or the alt key on a PC holding it down. Click on the stopwatch beside position. When you do that, all of a sudden you're going to see these red numbers. And what it really means is we've now put a basic, well, we're just using a basic expression. So there you go. And it says transform position. Now that's not what we want to do. But don't worry about it. The next step and I'll zoom in post production here is you want to hover over and click on this little play button. It says expression language menu, I guess. But for it's just the play button here, I'm going to click on it. When you do that, you get a whole bunch of options and it can be quite confusing if you don't understand it. So let's just go really simple. Go to property and then move over to the right side and select wiggle. Where are you wiggle? Okay, there it is. There's wiggle. Now this is where it gets a little weird, but I'm going to show you the simple way to do it. It has a whole bunch of things inside these brackets. So what you need to do is delete everything in those brackets. And you need to just know one thing really. It's how often, how much that is all that wiggle is about. It's how often do we want this to wiggle and by how many pixels and it's in seconds and it's in pixels. So in this case, I'm going to go every one second comma and I want it to wiggle a hundred pixels. That's quite a bit. That's it. So inside the brackets is one comma 100. I'm going to click out and there's a plane overhead. So I'm going to come back when the plane's gone. All right, the plane's mostly gone. So I'm going to hit play and now you'll see the little floating happening. There you go. It's floating. It's got that organic sort of probabilistic look to it. Let's say you want more float. You can do this very simple. Instead of 100, I'll do 500 pixels and instead of every one second, let's do it every half a second. So this is going to be like Nicholas Cage on a bender. Take a look. Oh, that's not as bad as I thought it was going to be. Okay, let's maybe, let's just change that up a bit. You can, of course, go in here and do whatever you see fit. If you want every, let's say every 10 seconds, you want it to go 5000. I mean, go nuts. I'll show you this last one and this one's going to be the Nicholas Cage. But here we go. Yeah, it's crazy, right? So it's all over the place, but it's a cool animation. So that's how you create a basic standard wiggle float levitation type animation in After Effects. Thanks for watching.