Shiney text

[Colin Braley]

For the light shimmer across the surface you could try out CC Light Sweep as a quick and easy solution.
~Colin Braley

[Michael Calvino]

Thanks,

Trying to do it without a plug in,
any ideas?

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

For gold-like text, look at a post I made a few days ago that has a few Animation Preset Freebies. There’s a preset that creates a metallic texture. To put your alchemy thoughts to practice; switch on the Tint plugin to add color to the texture to turn it gold.

HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After project files

[Brandon]

I just created beatiful shiny gold text with 3d invigorator and just save the frame

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Invigorator does beautiful gold text and other bits. Unfortunately, it doesn’t access AE’s built-in Text Animation Presets. There’s good and bad either way you look at it.

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files