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Morphing letters
Hey guys, I have this production logo I am working on and I wanted the T to arch up like it was frowning. How would I go about doing this I tried to mask the image and used the bend tool but had no success. Any ideas would be really awesome..
Danny
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Create the T in Illustrator, make outlines if you need to, copy and paste the path onto a solid as a mask in AE. Animate mask.
Or use the reshape tool or any of several of the distort tools (bezier warp seems like a good choice) on the T layer.
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I like to use the Puppet tools for this kind of thing.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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I cannot find the tool on my presets option, where do I get it? I am using aex 7
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Ah. The Puppet tools were introduced in After Effects CS3.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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darn.. well I don’t have illustrator either at the moment *hard-drive issues* so is there a tool on the effects that could help?
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Like I did mention in my post, there is the Bezier Warp. There is also Reshape. Or you could just trace the T on a solid with a mask and then animate the mask.
– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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when i do an adjustment layer and trace around the T with a mask how to I animate it? I tried isolating the T into two differnt masks but I cant find an effect that successfully arches the two where I need them
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I was thinking that the T was just one color and you could just recreate it in After Effects by a mask and then just animate that mask. But if it’s a logo and not just a shape, this may help you.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/zwar_chris/morph.php– The Great Szalam
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