Complex Hair Movement in After Effects

I made a script. It animates hair. It’s free. *I have updated the script since posting this! Please check out the new features here: Beginners beware, I’ll be covering advanced techniques with expressions and skimming over the basics. VIDEO BREAKDOWN 0:00 The problem with animation hair in AE 1:01 *SCRIPT OVERVIEW* 2:32 How to use AFPHairRig 6:11 layerIndex - Hair strand animation order 7:34 masterFreq - Speed up and slow down of all hair 9:45 Freq - Hair strand animation speed and loop 10:02 Amp - Hair strand bend power 10:18 FallOff - Hair strand bend power per bone (puppet pin) 11:36 Offset - Hair strand starting animation location 12:00 Delay - Hair strand bone offset (puppet pin) 12:37 WaveMath & PhaseLocator - Math needed for script animation 12:49 Subwave controller overview 14:30 MASTER_HR_Controller & GLOBAL_HR_Controller 15:36 *ART BREAKUP* 16:31 Separating hair from face 17:24 Painting back in the face 19:04 Separating hair strands from hair 21:45 *ANIMATING HAIR* 22:01 Importing art assets 22:25 Puppet pins and setup before running script 24:04 Running script & Null Bone structure 25:13 Fundamentals complete 28:15 Adding a gust of wind 31:43 Adding variance to loop 32:26 Animating other hair tufts 33:50 masterOffset - Hair starting animation location 34:40 Creating proxies to speed up render preview 34:56 Left hair tuft 36:24 How to use FallOff controller 37:33 Final steps 38:56 *FINAL ANIMATION AND THOUGHTS* SCRIPT DOWNLOAD LOCATION (Script only supports After Effects 2015 and later in English. Note: you can change your After Effects language to English if you would like to use the script.) - DISCORD Have questions? Join my discord and lets chat! ART Rockin art “Messy“ by Ilya Kuvshinov MUSIC Diary of Ideas by VESHZA Discover by VESHZA The Turning Point by VESHZA By My Side by K. Solis SOFTWARE Adobe After Effects (duh!) Adobe Photoshop Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe Audition Sublime Text Editor WORKSTATION AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 3.5 GHz 16-Core Processor - 64GB RAM - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC Black Edition - 2 1TB M.2 Samsung 970 PRO Series - X399 MSI Extended-ATX Motherboard - Dell U3419w Ultrasharp 34-Inch - CAMERA GEAR Sony a7S II - Sony Distagon T FE 35mm f/1.4 ZA - Zeiss Batis 85mm f/1.8 - Rode NTG-2 Microphone - Viltrox L116T LED - Kamerar D-Fuse Softbox -