After Effects Eye Blink Expression
Blink expressions for Adobe after effects
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get a random blink action for eyes in After Effects – Two alternative expressions
Blink expression After Effects: To get a random blink action for an eye in After Effects, you need an After Effects Eye Blink Expression. Here is an expression that you can use, you add this After Effects blink expression to your eyelid layers Transform->Opacity value:
After Effects Eye Blink Expression Alt 1
holdTime = .5; // time to hold each position (seconds)
seed = Math.floor(time/holdTime);
seedRandom(seed,true);
hmm = random(0,10);
if (hmm >5){
transform.opacity=0};
else {transform.opacity=100};
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After Effects Eye Blink Expression Alt 2
minSeg = 1;
maxSeg = 3.0;
blinkDur = .25;
fadeTime = .1;
seedRandom(index,true);
segStartTime = -random(minSeg,maxSeg);
segEndTime = segStartTime;
i = 1;while (time >= segEndTime){
i += 1;
seedRandom(i,true);
segStartTime = segEndTime; segEndTime = segEndTime + random(minSeg,maxSeg);
}if (time < segStartTime + blinkDur/2) easeOut(time,segStartTime,segStartTime+fadeTime,0,100) else easeIn(time,segStartTime+blinkDur-fadeTime,segStartTime+blinkDur,100,0
Useful resources on the human eye blink
Further analysis of the human spontaneous eye blink rate by a cluster analysis-based approach to categorize individuals with ‘normal’ versus ‘frequent’ eye blink activity.
About Blinking on Wikipedia.
Why do we blink – from Livescience
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