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Brilliant little trick for writing on text
Ok, don’t anyone spoil my little party here but I found this out myself. Dammit!! 🙂
and I am quite chuffed with my first little play with this technique.
A little background.
I have a logo which comprises of some Times Roman like text but also incorporates some swirly elements of some letters (that do overlap over others)
Now we wanted a fluid, written on approach. And old trick. And my way has always been animating masks. Painfully long winded way of doing it.
So I had a little thought when I was in bed last night. (my best thinking spot)
How could I create an easily animated matte for the letters. Stroke would do it. But would it work ok?
Hell Yes! is the answer! (Well I reckon anyway)
You have your text layer and your going to reveal it with your matte layer.
The Mattes are created with stroke.
first draw and mask line that follows the letter. Just straight down the middle of it. Don’t worry about Serifs with this one.
Add stroke. Make it just thicker than the text. Again don’t worry though if it doesn’t get the serifs.
Next start creating new mask lines for the serifs. Just little ones to fill the areas that the first one doesn’t.
Duplicate the effect for that layer and assign each duplicate to each mask line.
Animate each of these as the first ‘main’ stroke passes that point.Its pretty much self explanatory. Which means someone must of done this before and I’m an idiot for never finding this out sooner. Or this is a handy little adaptable tip.
Either way. Its worth mentioning, if someone else didn’t know it.
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[Seamus] “Ok, don’t anyone spoil my little party here…”
Okay. 😉
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Have you ever seen the film Waking Life? There is an interesting tidbit about people being able to solve problems because they’ve already been solved. You can latch on to the information because it is floating around like radio waves. Your brain acts as an antenna and pulls down someone else’s thoughts. I thought it was a very interesting concept. It does feel good though when you solve a problem on your own. When you can’t however, you come to the COW to help further you on your quest for knowledge. Onward After Effects soldier!!!
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