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  • Character Animation

    Posted by Amit Zinman on January 10, 2009 at 12:14 am

    Hi,
    I’m trying to animate a word. I want the characters to enter one by one. When one character approaches its final destination, the other one already enters. The first character entry should be the slowest, gaining speed with each character.
    Also, I want the last character to enter first. Initial testing showed only the first character entering first.

    Any ideas?

    Amit

    Roland R. kahlenberg replied 17 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Roland R. kahlenberg

    January 10, 2009 at 12:06 pm

    Lots of fine-tuning with AE’s Text Tool. Some pointers are to use Ramp Up or Ramp Down. If these are unfamiliar to you then perhaps brute-force character by character keyframing may be required.

    Good Luck
    RoRK

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  • David Bogie

    January 10, 2009 at 2:21 pm

    [Roland R. Kahlenberg] “brute-force character by character keyframing may be required.”

    That’s how we did in the Olden Days. It’s not that difficult. You can paste the keyframes to all of the separate glyphs (as individual text layer or text effects) and tweak them individually or, easier, make a copy of the word layer for each individual character and mask off all the other letters from each. then you just adjust the timing.

    bogiesan

  • Roland R. kahlenberg

    January 11, 2009 at 4:22 am

    ANd not to forget to start from the end and break the characters away – so much easier than putting them in place.

    Cheers
    RoRK

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