• Adobe After Effects

  Animating and Transforming a shape

  Posted by Ron Ortiz on September 17, 2009 at 7:28 pm

  Hi guys.

  I’m trying to figure out how to do a shape animation in After Effects, it looks very simple but I just can’t get it to work the way I want to. I’ve tried with masking but I couldn’t get the same move. Here’s what I want to do:

  I want to achieve the same animation where you see the shape of the text background make a turn doing a kinda “wormy” move and disappear off the screen. If it was a straight move there wouldn’t be a problem, it’s that turn that gives me trouble. Obviously I’m new at After Effects and I’m learning as I go, so if you point me to a tutorial or give me a quick tip I’ll greatly appreciate it.

  Thank you.

  Ron Ortiz replied 16 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

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  Erik Waluska

  September 17, 2009 at 7:59 pm

  Search “Text on path” in the After Effects tutorials section and you’ll find several tutorials on this subject.

  -E
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  Dave Johnson

  September 17, 2009 at 8:33 pm

  The basic steps are to create a mask/path with the pen tool, apply the Path Text effect, then animate the margin.
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  Ron Ortiz

  September 17, 2009 at 11:41 pm

  Hey thanks for your answers! I got to animate the actual text, by making it follow a path, but I can’t get the shape behind the text (the orange shape) to follow the same animation.
  But I got the text to work, I’m making progress.
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  Ron Ortiz

  September 18, 2009 at 11:30 pm

  Thanks for your answer Dave. Someone suggested me using 3D stroke from Trapcode and works great, also using Effects/Generate/Stroke also works, animating start and end simultanously.

  Thanks to everybody for the help.

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