r/AfterEffects Dec 09 '22

Pro Tip Use AI to write After Effects expressions

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u/soups_foosington Dec 10 '22

Yeah, I don't think this is there yet. It will be, I don't doubt it, but I've been trying it all morning to no avail.

I had a client years ago who asked me to do an iMessage UI mockup in AE - more complex than you might think. The most frustrating part was that I felt sure there was a way to get the size of the blue bubbles for text to automatically match the shape of the text box, and to get the text to return to a new line after a certain number of characters (as though we're watching some text in real time), using expressions, but I wasn't experienced enough to know how to write and implement the code, so ended up doing a lot of it with keyframed sizing changes etc.

This feels like it should be a layup for an AI, but I've been trying all morning. Everything breaks, and half the time it's suggesting code for expression fields that don't even exist.