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text animation
I there i have a tex path that came from freehand, and i’d like to do a write on.
But the only technique that i now is creating a sweep nurbs and put the path text and another spline primitive inside, but this way the text don’t have the caps, is there another technique that i might use?
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Have you tried Extrude Nurbs (same menu as sweep nurbs). It has cap options. just drop a spline inside
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i usualy use the extrude nurbs, for splines.
But in this case i want to animate the grow of the lettring, and the extrude nurb don’t have that option, just the sweep nurb -
I’m not sure what kind of ‘grow’ you are trying to create…
You could use Sweep nurbs to grow the outlines.
Or Extrude nurbs to grow the caps by animating amount.
Or you could combine both techniques on identical duplicate splines, or maybe fade in the caps as the sweep nurbs animate.
But like I say ..I don’t really know what you are trying to achieve.
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what i want to do is similiar to what i can do in after effects with the effect write on, that is revealing the text by animating the write on, and i’d like to do it with cinema to take part of the different perspectives and pov that cinema allow, and also that is 3D.
By i’ll try to do as you say, but i’ve seen similar animation like this one, and it seems in the time that it was an unic object. -
I see,
Maybe you could use Sweep Nurbs with a flat, 2d shape as the cross section – like just a 2 point spline (just a line) so the sweep nurbs has no depth.
Another way to go could be to output a .AEC scene file and a compositing tag to represent where the ‘pen’ touches the ‘paper’.
You could then import all this .AEC 3D data into after effects and you get a null object which you can attach you write on effect to.. Just a thought. Also Cinema 4D’s sketch and toon module could help you. It is a post effect. You can animate the lines to ‘draw’ across your splines and also add many preset effects like crayon, pencil, chalk, paint etc.
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