• Adobe After Effects

  random characters with changing fonts

  Posted by Michael Goldberg on April 10, 2008 at 12:36 am

  Hi,
  I’m trying to do a text effect similar to the open of Sundance’s Iconoclasts show. The text is going to have each letter changing characters randomly, and fonts until the show tile forms. I have digital anarchy text plug ins. They all seem to do 1 or the other, but not both (random characters and font changes) together on a per character basis. Any suggestions on the best way to do this?

  Mike

  Ben Griggs replied 18 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Ben Griggs

  April 10, 2008 at 12:54 am

  Michael,

  I don’t think the font can be changed with expressions the way the characters can. It seems that you would be stuck making a precomp for each font having an expression to change the letters and then use time displacement in order to smoothly replace one with the other. If you use a properly sized square fractal noise for your displacement you should have no issues.

  If you do find an expression change the fonts I would like to know.

  Another option is to just create your own font set by mixing several of letters from the ones you want to use and drastically simplify the work inside of AE with this.

  Hope that helps,
  Ben

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