• Adobe After Effects

  masking on already 3D text on round path

  Posted by Dawud Ali on April 2, 2011 at 1:40 am

  THANKS FOR YOUR TIME

  IS CASE U ARE CURIOUS ABOUT THE CAPS I WAS RENDERING WITH CAPS ON
  TO PREVENT PREVIEW 🙂 MOVING ON!

  HI GUYS DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW MAKE AN EDITED ( ONTO A PATH) AND
  3D TEXT LAYER MASK EASILY. OR AT LEAST MAKE IT APPEAR 2D JUST FOR
  THE SAKE OF MASKING SPECIFIC TEXT .

  FOR EXAMPLE WHEN A TEXT LAYER IS 2D OR FLAT IT’S EASY TO APPLY AND
  ANIMATE A MASK BUT THE PROBLEM I HAVE IS A ‘3D’ THE TEXT WHICH IS ON A
  CIRCULAR PATH WITH THE CHARACTERS STANDING 90 DEGREASE UPRIGHT
  ON THAT PATH LINE, WITH THE TEXT LAYER ALSO AT 90 (IN PERSPECTIVE)

  NOW I NEED TO MASK PARTS OF THE TEXT MOMENTARILY
  AND THEN REVEL IT WHEN I NEED TO.
  THE TEXT IS ON A CIRCULAR PATH WHEN WHEN I ANIMATE THE FIRST MARGIN TO MAKE IT MOVE ALONG THE PATH SOME OF THE TEXT WILL OVERLAP THE PART BEHIND IT, MEANING I WANT TO HIDE THE PART WHICH OVERLAPS.

  THANKS FOR YOUR TIME

  Dawud Ali replied 15 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Joey Foreman

  April 2, 2011 at 2:03 am

  Couldn’t you precompose it, and apply and animate the mask in the precomp? Or, use the Range Selector with an Opacity Animator in the main comp?

  Joey Foreman
  Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist
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  Dawud Ali

  April 3, 2011 at 8:31 pm

  hi, my man

  the animator for opacity range selector worked like a beast, just a bit more refining would give me the exact result I’m looking for. i’ve been using after affect for while but it’s taken me long to notice the text animator options -_-

  moreover i already precomposed the text animation but i had problems with unwanted text overlapping the text i wanted, so normal masking wouldn’t work but tnks for sharing the knowledge

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