3D Rotate around Circle from straight line of text

[Ridley Walker]

There are many ways to achieve this depending on precisely what you need and which version of After Effects you have. CS6 with the Ray Traced renderer allows adjustment of the layer curvature, you’d need to precompose the text first then adjust the curvature and the number of segments to taste.

Or you could use CC Cylinder to wrap the type around a pseudo 3D Cylinder that responds to camera moves.

Or you could place the type on a mask path and animate the path from a straight line to a circle as I have done here:

5094_typestraighttocurvecopycs5.5.aep.zip

CircleType

[Vishesh Arora]

Sum

See this tutorial on how to animate text on path:
https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/animating-text-along-a-path-in-after-effects-ae-basix/

I have created an example of what you want to achieve:
5095_textwithroundpath.zip

Vishesh Arora
3D and Motion Graphics Artist
Films Rajendra

Blog:
https://digieffects.wordpress.com

Demo Reel(3D):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPgIJU_BR8

[Sum Choi]

I’ll give it a try when I have time. Thanks!