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Specific matte question
Hello,
I am trying to recreate a rather retro effect, but for some reason I am banging my head against a wall trying to find a simple solution to create it.
I have this text with a heavy shadow effect on it. Here’s a screengrab.
I want to have the white part of the text wipe on and reveal the orange shadow. I have each on separate layers. I tried using the echo effect on a matte of the text part to create a wipe-on effect, but that isn’t working as smoothly as I hoped, so here I am searching for another creative idea. Any takers?
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Hi Skylar
—- I dont think its clear what you are trying to do – if you mean…
1 ) wipe on type with outline and fade up extruded flat drop shadow then :
—- draw a mask over the type and set it to subtract – this will mean you can not see it
—- go to start of animation and set keyframe on mask path
—- go to end of animation and select ‘mask path’ to drag the left hand side of mask to the right revealing text ( if left to right ) – set feather to suit if wanting soft edge
— go to other layer with drop shadow and animate transparency to suit2 ) If you mean ‘grow’ the drop shadow from the type with the outline then you will be able to do this using a custom matte ( you could just draw this with the pen tool or go to PS for a black and white ) — just slide it in from ‘behind’ the type by selecting the custom matte as the track matte — you might need a version of the drop shadow with the outline and type as well ( set to orange ) to make the join easy
…. I guess you could do this with C4D but I think it will be hard to match the flat retro look ( ? ) — I dont use it myself so I could be wrong ( ? ) — however if you like the 3D look you can also do this in an older version (s ? ) of AE that have the 3D option ( where you can extrude vectors as in a dedicated 3D package )
———————————- good luck —- chris
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