Wiggle Text in Motion?

I'm just trying to make silly looking text wiggle (or jiggle). Kind of like if you would hand draw each word and redraw every 2 frames or so. So that the text looks "nervous".
I'm sure there must be an easy way to do it in Motion.
I've got Motion 3, by the way.
Thanks.

I'm thinking, Mark, that there's no way to cause the text to jiggle using the Wriggle behavior. I'm guessing that wireduck wants something like Squigglevision™ used on Dr. Katz, etc...
I've done up a project for my book, but I'm limited in how much I can post of it online.
I call it WobbleVision and it looks like this:
Wobble Vision
What I can do is tell you I used a cellular generator with tiny particles and a sharp edged gradient, made it 4 frames long, clone layered it, set the end condition of the clone layer to pingpong, then dragged it the length of my project. Then I used my "inking" group (letters and outlines) as a mask for the cloned cellular generator, applied a slight Gaussian blur and a threshold. This causes the particles to "clump" together and the ping-ponging effect makes the lines wobble like a looped redraw.
I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but I hope that'll give you enough to get started.
post back,
Patrick

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