How to Create a Soft Body Effect in After Effects

Creative Dojo shows how you can create a soft body effect using CC Smear in After Effects.

Creative Dojo’s VinhSon Nguyen shows how you can create what is typically a dynamics effect, faking a soft body look in After Effects. Gleaned from the recent postings of a few motion designers and Ae scripts, VinhSon shows how you can create the animation using CC Smear.

CC Smear for a Soft Body Look.

The tutorial covers how you can fake a soft dynamics distortion effect in After Effects. The technique is versatile enough to create some fluid-like movements anywhere in animation. The key to this technique is the CC Smear effect. 

VinhSon ascribes the trick to Hieu Vu, who once showed him how it’s done. “Don’t forget, you can rig this effect up with other effects and expressions to streamline the whole elastic animation,” VinhSon says.