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Build image from texts
Hi all,
I’m trying to achieve the following effect in After Effects:1. I have an image (photo or more simple drawing)
2. I have about 50 names of people
3. The names fly into the image, one by one. All text is shown within some basic figure, like a rectangle or circle.
4. When all text is visible on the screen, together they build up (a simplified version) of the given image.I want to show that the value of a certain company are the people that work in the company. So all the names together make up, for example, the building a the company.
Can anyone just give me a few pointers on were to start? Is there a tool in which I can break up an image into various simple shapes, and that each shape will be placed in a seperate layer?
Thanks,
Robbert Dam -
3 Replies
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You can use the techniques from the tutorial below:
Card Dance is the plugin you’re after.
This tutorial can help:
https://www.heroturko.org/tutorials/32337-maxafter-card-dance-effect-tutorialproject-file.htmlTudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior Compositor/VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania -
Hi Dave,
Your probably a lot more experienced in AE than I am. I’m fairly new to all this and I just want to know if this idea of mine is “within reach”. I have quite an clear image in my mind about this idea, but for now I just want to know if my idea is technically possible for a AE newbie.
If I hav the feeling it can be done, I can jump into the details. -
Hi Ted, thanks for the tutorial.. downloading right now.
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