Mexican wave with text letters? – how

[Darby Edelen]

[adam taylor] “kinda like the mexican wave at sporting events!!”

Ha, I have never heard it called the mexican wave… But after a little research (https://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_did_doing_'The_Wave'_at_sporting_events_originate) it appears that it did gain international attention in the World Cup held in Mexico… We were doing that thing years before in the Bay Area though (Go A’s!)

I think Dave already handled your question… So I guess that’s all I had to contribute =)

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

[Adam Taylor]

thanks Dave…exactly what i needed. I hate to admit it but i had downloaded that tutorial a week ago and had forgotten to watch it!

adam

Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

[Julio Ibanez]

As a good Husky fan, I feel obliged to point out, whether apocryphal or not, that we at the University of Washington claim to have “invented” the wave.

So 😛

Julio

[Julio Ibanez]

And, yes, I realize my last post was entirely worthless to the technical issue at hand. Sorry, Adam!

I haven’t checked that link so it might hold the golden answer, but in some bid to be remotely helpful: I remember in playing around with AE’s preset text animations, that there was something pretty close to that. All you had to do was animate the range. Another option, just in case.

Julio