• Adobe After Effects

  Per-Character Text Animation

  Posted by Matthew Krumins on June 25, 2008 at 10:36 pm

  I am trying to animate Per-character text onto the screen as though it is being blown on by a gust of wind, however, when I use a postion animator it bring the characters on 1 at a time, i dont want them spaced out as much. can anyone help with a simple solutioN?
  Thanks in advance.

  Jason Demek replied 17 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Jason Demek

  June 26, 2008 at 2:19 am

  Matthew,

  I’m not to sure what your trying to explain. If you could explain clearer I think I could help. But if I was working on this, and wanted the same end product I would:

  1. Create each individual character for the word I would like to animate
  2. Line up each character to the spacing I want.
  3. Set a position keyframe for each character about 2 seconds into the composition.
  4. Set a position keyframe for each character at the beginning of the composition.
  5. Move the position keyframes according to the speed I would like the text to fly in
  6. Set up a new composition, and add the first composition.
  7. Effect the old composition that I placed in the new composition to my liking.

  Some effects to play with would be ripple, directional blur, wind current, etc.

  Hope this helps even if I didn’t quite hit exactly what you wanted.

  Best of Luck

  Jason Demek
  Editor/Animator/Director
  CW21 – Birmingham, AL

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