Chapter 10
Squash & Stretch in After Effects
In the last chapter, we discussed in depth what Squash & Stretch is and why it helps to bring our animations to life. In this chapter, we’ll discuss different methods for creating squashing and stretching animations in After Effects.
Here's the bad news: creating Squash & Stretch in After Effects is usually a lot of work. There’s also some good news, but more on that in a second.
Create animations with Squash & Stretch in no time with a collection of ready to use behaviors, carefully handcrafted by professionals and controlled by an intelligent system – ensuring your animations come to life without starting from scratch each time.
Create dynamic layouts easily. Align and attach elements to any point of the bounding box of texts and create boxes that grow and shrink with their content.
Your best friends for tracking and rotoscoping: MaskTracker+, MochaImport+, CopyMask2Layer, Tracker2Mask and KeyTweak.