• Adobe After Effects

  Animating type off page as particles

  Posted by Rob Pilichowski on November 20, 2008 at 5:42 pm

  Hey guys just wondering if anyone has animated type flying off of a page. i was thinking of using Particular but don’t want just flying type but want the type to start as a sentence written on a page, then fly off of it. Anyone have any suggestions?

  Scott Novasic replied 17 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 7 Replies
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  Scott Novasic

  November 20, 2008 at 6:06 pm

  I have done it with an animation text expression in AE. And I have done it by hand matting 30 some letters (sample on my demo reel) If there arent too many letters I prefer to do it by the hand made approach so you can customize your individual letters as they fly off. Have a few letters maybe be more playful than others. A particle system cant give you that personal motion that hand animating can. If you dont need that, a particle system is fine.

  SuperNova
  Animation & Visual Effects
  Scott Novasic
  Los Angeles Ca
  web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects
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  Rob Pilichowski

  November 20, 2008 at 6:47 pm

  i want a lot of letters flying off the page so don’t want to do each individual letter by hand. what is the expression you used to do it?
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  Brian Dugan

  November 24, 2008 at 6:57 pm

  Rob,
  I’ve used just the animation presets for type with some timimg and position modifications, works nicely without too much effort.
  Certainly depends on how involved you want to get.

  Brian
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  Brian Dugan

  November 24, 2008 at 6:58 pm

  Scott,
  Your reel is exceptionly excellent!
  Could you tell me what programs (and plug ins) you use?

  Brian
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  Rob Pilichowski

  November 24, 2008 at 7:52 pm

  Hi Brian,
  i use AE, Illustrator, Photoshop and some Cinema 4D. How did you see my site?
  Which preset did you use exactly for the type?

  Thanks!
  R
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  Brian Dugan

  November 24, 2008 at 8:15 pm

  Geez, there are so many…
  Animation Presets/Text/Animate Out:

  I’ve used:
  Random Fly Off
  Rain Characters Out
  Slide off by Character

  Explosion – under Miscellaneous is pretty cool too
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  Scott Novasic

  November 24, 2008 at 10:10 pm

  Hi Brian, This is Scott.

  If you were asking about my reel, I use the ‘standard’ software.
  – illustrator – photoshop – AE –

  For 3d I use Electric Image (im their most recent featured artist on their website) also some Maya and im just starting to train in Cinema. EI is my favorite, but I am learning Cinema because it is used by such a large amount of our industry. It makes sense. I use Particle illusion a lot as well.

  Plug ins – where do I start – Sapphire are my favorites, best quality.
  All the trapcode stuff, Knoll LF Pro, Final Effects, Damage & Delirium,
  I could go on but you get the picture.

  Where I have invested a lot of money, is in some of the visual effects
  footage and source material. I have over 300 gigs of source files, animations and special effects footage I call on for compositing or achieving an effect.

  SuperNova
  Animation & Visual Effects
  Scott Novasic
  Los Angeles Ca
  web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects

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