Animating Text with a Trim Path

[Steve Roberts]

Use trim paths to animate a stroke that is used as a track matte over the character. The stroke should be slightly wider than the character.

You may need two strokes.

[Vishesh Arora]

Matt

You can Reveal your logo using Stroke effect.

Here is the tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiGn4O4zn1Q

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

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[Matt Green]

Thanks for the input. I’ll give those a try.

The one problem is that the letter t I’m animating is a very specific font that I need to duplicate exactly. Using stroke will only give me lines over the type, not actually animate within all of the outlines of the type.

My original idea was to make the letter into a vector (shape) and animate filling it in and with trim path. When I do this the trim path doesn’t fill the shape in uniformly like the new york times logo above. Any ideas?

[Steve Roberts]

If the animated stroke/shape is a track matte, you will follow the character’s outlines exactly. Did you try that?

[Matt Green]

Not yet – I’ll look for tutorials on track mattes and try it (I’m pretty new to AE so I’m not totally sure what a track matte is). If you know any good ones send them my way. Thanks again for your help.

[Steve Roberts]

Matt, for this application of Track Mattes, you don’t need a tutorial, just the Help. Off you go!