Text effect trouble..

[Simon Hustings]

Ken,
There are a couple of choices I can think of:
1: Use a brush in motion and check the “write on” option. Kinda tricky to do without using a pen and tablet as Motion senses pressure of the pen and affects the brush stroke accordingly. Plus this is down to your own skills of calligraphy!!
2. Check out the LiveType fonts. I seem to remember there were one or two that had that write on effect. But they might not be in the font stye your were looking for.
3. The way I would do it is to type up your text in Motion using the desired font and then keyframe a mask over the word to reveal the letters over the desired duration. I use this method all the time to give the effect of text being written, or to show organic growth. May take a couple of attempts to get it right, but works well.

All the best,

Simon

Is it me or do I spend half my life watching little grey bars turn into little blue bars??

[David Bogie]

Depending on your need for elegance, the pen lifts and loops are the elements that require care and can be very tricky. IN the oled days of After Effects, creating elegant calligraphy was a question a applying write-on brush strokes (or compelx masking) to several layers, each with a separate set of letterform details.

Perhaps a more interesting text assembly efffect can be sold to your client. Be sure to look at the Motion tutorial pages here on the cow and hit Mark Spencer’s site. This write-on effect question gets posted weekly here or in the AE forum so there’s lots of informaiton here on the cow, you just have to find it.

https://provideocoalition.com/index.php/cmg_blogs

https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/create-an-elegantly-handwritten-text-reveal/

bogiesan