• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  flowing text from a jar

  Posted by Cuthere on May 12, 2007 at 3:19 am

  i hope someone can help me. i’m new in using expression so i would be appreciate if someone can help me with this problem.

  i need to know how to do expression to animate text (alphabets) that will come out from a jar. the story is all texts(alphabets) will looks like stored inside a jar and as the camera moving the text(alphabets) will come out from a jar. i need the text(alphabets) comeout like the effects when we blow the dandelion or something like to set free all the text(alphabets) and finally it will compose become a word.

  thank you in advance.

  Filip Vandueren replied 19 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Filip Vandueren

  May 12, 2007 at 4:31 pm

  Hi there,

  I would do the basic animation by hand, from point a to point B, and use a wiggle whose amount is tied to sliders, to add randomness inbetween.

  But the basic animation should probably best be done by hand.

  You could use expressions if you use a monospace font, that way you’re certain that every letter is exactly x pixels further ot the right than the previous, and if every letter is a layer, their positions to form a word can be calculated.

  I did something like this once when I was experimenting with automatic anagram animations:

  
  

  Those project files can be found here:

  https://users.telenet.be/vandueren//forumstuff/anagram/

  I think it wouldn’t be too hard to change that script to have the letters start out at a single position (perhaps with some randomness) -> the jar, and then evolve to their word position.

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