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  • TEXT Roll Animation

    Posted by Dawud Ali on April 24, 2011 at 3:39 pm

    hi guys

    Thanks for your time and help

    i wanted to animate the date 2001 and evolve it to 2011. i thought i knew how to do this but i can’t. the animation i wanted to achieve was
    this(skip to 1.02):

    https://vimeo.com/21753673

    this is my fiends piece she’s busy working today so i can’t ask her direct.

    thank you in advance

    Dawud Ali replied 15 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Brian Charles

    April 24, 2011 at 7:06 pm

    You’ll need to animate the Character Offset using 2 separate animators, one for the last digit and one for the penultimate digit.

    Restrict the range of each animator to a single digit. The penultimate one should only animate when the the last digit turns from 9 to 0.

  • Brian Charles

    April 24, 2011 at 7:47 pm
  • Dawud Ali

    April 24, 2011 at 9:39 pm

    Thanks for the help but some further question if you plesde.

    firstly how do i set the penultimate digit from the animators once i get the character offsets? (i’m very inexperienced with text animation).

    secondly how would i apply the ‘penultimate digit’ for more than one for number. example in a digital clock or airport information boards

  • Brian Charles

    April 24, 2011 at 9:49 pm

    Please refer to the manual and help for After Effects.

    Text animation is controlled by animators.

    I assumed you had some understanding of the software.

  • Dawud Ali

    April 25, 2011 at 1:36 am

    haven’t worked much with text animators, v.useful to learn them inside out. guess i need to rush to the manuals

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