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Urgent help recreating animation
Hi I just posted this to the expressions forum too. I’m hoping someone will see it in one or the other and be able to help.
Hello
Thanks in advance for any help in this matter. I’m a new hire and my new employers want me to re-create the attached logo animation. The company has changed names and the quick time file “morphs” from the old logo into the new, however strictly speak it’s not a morph. Please look at my link to the movie. (Copy and paste this into your browser: https://web.mac.com/ronlongdesign/iWeb/Motion%20Graphics%20reels/Movie.html ) It’s possible the original was done in another application other than AE, but that’s what I know and have. Each letter in the text apears to follow an oval path from left to right. I think they split the layer on the back side for the text and the new layer. It will make sense when you watch it. I opened my big mouth and said I could do it, before I thought it throuhg )morale here, keep your mouth shut rather than try to impress your new boss.) Thanks! I’ll be up all night on this one!
Ron Long
802-264-4806,
ro***********@*ac.comAll the best
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Each letter has to be on a separate layer (3D switch on). Put them all into their final positions (you can use a non-separated logo as a guide) and keyframe, then go to another place in time and drag them out of position, tweaking the path in a circular manner.
To make it easier, you might want to do that with one letter, getting the path just right (view it in top view), then duplicate and replace that leter with another, and tweak the path. Continue along in that manner. Since, if I recall, you can’t do this with text layers, you might need to have the logo as separate layers in an Illustrator comp first.
And create a camera – don’t use the default camera.
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you could probably also accomplish this by using the text animators (of course you would need the text as ai file that is not outlines)
it would be fairly easy to do this way if you are comfotable with how they work
who is that masked man…
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Yeah, why not? … scale up each character, slide it to the left, then slide it to the right. Animate the selector to choose letters …
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Excellant thoughts. Thank yo. I need to digest what you’ve said. I knew I needed to put each letter on its own layer and stagger the time each deparats from the starting pint on a path…after I read your ideas and Steve’s in expressions I’ll set to work on it. As he said in the expressions forum, I might actually get come sleep tonight after all. Thanks again very much, I appreciate it.
Ron LongAll the best
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Actually, that was Filip, but I think we’re all on the same page. G’night! 🙂
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Don’t forget to use lots of motion blur.
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Thanks very much MIke. I did.
This is such a great resource. Great thanks to all the good people at the Cow and the members.All the best
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