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  • Text effect

    Posted by Tim Maddoux on December 31, 2006 at 12:48 am

    Hello everyone and Happy New Year!

    I have a DigitalJuice motion background of a volleyball and I am try to create an opening title sequence with the text moving horizontally from behind the volleyball to the front, stopping and them continuing around the volleyball. I

    Ryan replied 19 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Brian Charles

    December 31, 2006 at 1:31 am

    If I understand the effect you want to achieve, you could try CC Sphere on the text layer. Set the Sphere radius so it envelopes the volley ball then animate the Y rotation.

    You may need to mask the layer as the text enters the screen and wraps around the ball.

  • Tim Maddoux

    December 31, 2006 at 2:25 am

    Thank you Brian for the help!

    CC Sphere gives me the movement I

  • Mylenium

    December 31, 2006 at 8:57 am

    Set the shading to outside/ front. By default both sides of the sphere will be shaded which in you case is of course undesirable. Once you have that you only need to adjust the in- and outpoints to create the illusion.

    Mylenium

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  • Tim Maddoux

    December 31, 2006 at 6:46 pm

    Thanks Mylenium but I’m not sure I am following you.
    I don

  • Mylenium

    January 1, 2007 at 10:01 am

    Dunno what it’s called exactly off the top of my head, but somewhere in the shading section there is an option to either only render the inside or the outside shell or both.

    Mylenium

    [Pour Myl

  • Ryan

    January 3, 2007 at 1:00 am

    Create a layer of text, apply CC sphere. Set the Render to inside. Duplicate that text layer and set Render in that CC Sphere to outside. Put the “Outside” sphere at the top position. Put the layer you want everything to orbit around at the second layer. Put the “inside” sphere layer at the bottom.

    To make life simple use the pick whip to create an expression so that all of the rotation values of one CC sphere follow the other.

    Voila.

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