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 MASTERHRController GLOBALHRController 15:36 ART BREAKUP 16:31 Separating hair from face