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How would you do this — Scrabble Tiles?
Making a Scrabble board that will spell out a 6 word message. The tiles are to be placed on the board tile by tile to form each word.
I have the board as a layer and all of the tiles as layers. I figue that I will move the tiles onto the board with position keyframes. Simple.
I would like to make the tiles slide onto the board in a wigglely path that simulates a real world type of placement. What woiuld be a good way or the best way to do that?
Mark Cain
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Forgot to tell you that this is 6.5 Pro.
Mark Cain
Sarasota, FL USA -
Teke a look at the text animation presets from After Effects, there is one for you.
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The tiles are not text. They are graphic images. Does that change your recommendation.
Mark Cain
Sarasota, FL USA -
Yes it does.
Set all the layers on their places, go to 2 seconds or whaterver you want, set keyframes for all of them for Position, Scale and Rotation. With all the keyframes selected press Shift+F9 (this is for smoothering the end of the animation.Now go to 0 seconds in the time line and scrable the layers the way you want. Select all the begining keyframes (all those which are in point zero of the timeline) and press Crtl+Shift+_F9 to smooth the start of the animation.
Now that you have your animation done, select all of the layers but the first (if the objects are not off-screen, select the keyframes instead) and delay them 2 or 3 frames from the first one, deselect the second one and do the same thing, deselect the third layer and do the sane thing and so on, until you have each layer a little bit after the next one.
It gives a nice look to the animation.
I hope it is what you need.
Let me know if it helped.
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