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  • Posted by Steve Blacker on November 13, 2007 at 3:31 pm

    Hi there:

    I am currently studying Motion Graphics at college and I’m working on a short project that involves animating text, mostly. What I’m trying to do is make it look as though streams of text are entering the ears and eyes of a head image I have in my comp (a .png of a 3D model head). I need to make the text disappear as it reaches the ear (or eye) so it looks as though it’s going inside the head.

    I think I need to use masks to achieve this, but I haven’t had any luck with it yet. Can someone give me some pointers, perhaps to an existing tutorial that covers this sort of effect? It seems like it should be pretty easy to do, but I’ve thrown myself into AE in the deep end, so any assistance would be much appreciated…

    Thanks!

    Steve

    Steve Blacker replied 18 years, 6 months ago 57,927 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Steve Blacker

    November 13, 2007 at 4:20 pm

    Ah… thank you so much – I wasn’t expecting such a fast response!

    The head is motionless, so hopefully that’ll make things easier, as you say.

    Thanks again – much appreciated!

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