Text in a swirl????

[Serge Hamad]

Hi,

Here is a classic method:

-Draw a path on a solid in AE using the pen tool or better if you have Illustrator use the spiral tool then copy/paste your path to a solid in AE.

-Apply Path Text to your solid
-Select your path as a custom path in the path options menu.
-Animate the size of your text as well as the left margin.

Salut.
Serge

[Sam Moulton]

you can also use the text tool in 6.5 and 7 and just draw a mask path directly on the text layer. Then in the time line you’ll find path options. pick the mask and then for fun try one of the text animate in pre-sets. I just did this using spin in by letter and it was amazing.

[Jason]

I must not be doing something right????

I am using AE 6 and Illustrator CS

I have the swirl in illustrator and when I import it into AE I get lost on what to do next????

In the custom path drop down box it has no options????

Thank you
Jason

[Jason]

Ok I got the first part finally 🙂

Now can I get the text to scale from the front to the back over time?

Ex. The first letter gets smaller before the last as it moves down the swirl?

Thank you
JAson

[Zander]

id say key frame but im sure there’s a better way, like a displacement map, i dunno

im guessing something with keyframing, this is interesting, ive been meaning to try this my self

[Yossarian]

I think you might be best off using the Text animation menu within the text layer. Twirl down the text layer’s transform properties, click on the arrow next to “Text” (on the right side), and choose scale to animate. You’ll pretty much have to play with it from there – you’re going to want to change the scale property (not keyframe it, just change it once) and keyframe the “end” property (under “range selector”) to match the timing you want (you can also select the path text option in here instead of adding the path text effect before doing this).

For what you’re doing, you might also play with the “shape” option (under “advanced”) – ramp down might work for you.

Hope this helps some; sorry if I just told you things you already know.