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help for a project animating text
hi there
i have this project for a web site i need to make a banner with a text
and i wanna animate the first character of the word to bounce in the screen from the right then stop and then all the rest of the word come in from the right bounce and stop next to the letter
i looked at the preset but havent seen something that i want
please help with this
thanx -
6 Replies
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Easiest way for this is to create two layers of text. The first will have the first letter, and the other will have the rest of the word. You may have to create your own animation, or take a preset and work it to your needs. Under the animator, in the advanced setting, you can select the animator to use the word instead of by character, thus allowing your second layer to be able to animated as a whole.
Mark
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Ok thanx
but i have a problem now
i realised that i need to use a picture of the text they have alpha channel
but still i cant use them as regular text
any chance i can animate them to the same animation i want?
i mean the bounce thing -
so what you are saying is that the text you want to animate really isn’t text, but an image? can you recreate the text? if so, then you can use the animators and range finders in the text animation section.
Todd Morgan
Creative Director
Freelance F/X Inc. -
I cant recreate the text i dont have the fonts and it has a 3D look to it
what i did was use masks to break the letters and animate the firest letter and the rest of the word it looks ok but still i think i made it harder then it was suppose to be
any other ideas? -
If it is an image, then maksing and animating by hand or using expressions to animate are your only way to go.
Mark -
Thanx mark for the answer
do you remember the expresion for cycle the bounce?
i wanna make the letter bounce for a few frames and then use expresion to animate few more frames
also i tried to export to swf but the file is too big try to export to flv but i cant see it in flash
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