i am making an animation of a tree with leaves blowing off the branches and can't seem to figure out how to randomize the size and guide offset of the leaves.

here's what i have:

a movieclip (leaves_mc) with a guide layer in it and a movie clip (leafanim_mc) attatched too it.

what i want is to make the leafanim_mc scale large and small as it follows the guide path.

since i don't want all the leaves to appear to follow the same path, i was trying to get the leafanim_mc movie clip to randomly offset in it's x and y while following the guide layer.

basically i am trying to get a realistic blowing leaf without just making a bunch of motion tweens.

can anyone help me figure this out? thanks!