[D Langley]

I too like to learn visually and I’m not a math or code wiz. I took one computer science course in college on writing Pascal; I don’t think they even teach that language anymore. As for math I took one level of calculus in college as well, and that was so long ago I’m surprised I can spell the word.

Expressions in this tutorial are not too involved. I think the hangup for most folks is trying to understanding a “foreign” language and its not easy.

In a sense however you have a built in video tutorial. You can always disable and enable an expression and see how it impacts the layer and even the comp. Much as you would turn on and off a layer’s visibility.

And when you get stuck there are great resources and individuals both here and elsewhere that are more than willing to lend a hand.

[D Langley]

I too like to learn visually and I’m not a math or code wiz. I took one computer science course in college on writing Pascal; I don’t think they even teach that language anymore. As for math I took one level of calculus in college as well, and that was so long ago I’m surprised I can spell the word.

Expressions in this tutorial are not too involved. I think the hangup for most folks is trying to understanding a “foreign” language and its not easy.

In a sense however you have a built in video tutorial. You can always disable and enable an expression and see how it impacts the layer and even the comp. Much as you would turn on and off a layer’s visibility.

And when you get stuck there are great resources and individuals both here and elsewhere that are more than willing to lend a hand.

[D Langley]

The text doesn’t disapear it actually wraps around it. Collapse transformations among other things allows the 3D attributes of a comp to be “available” to the comp it is nested in. Normally a nested comp would be a flat plane.

Dave

[D Langley]

The text doesn’t disapear it actually wraps around it. Collapse transformations among other things allows the 3D attributes of a comp to be “available” to the comp it is nested in. Normally a nested comp would be a flat plane.

Dave

[D Langley]

Looks like it was done with cylinder creator lite from digital anarchy. It shipped bundled with AE 6.5, I’m not sure if it is still in 7.0 or not. Nevertheless, you can purchase the full version its called 3D assistants, here’s the link: https://www.digitalanarchy.com/

[D Langley]

Steven, sorry I diddn’t see your post until this morining. You are correct it is the Anchor Point settings under Transform on each text layer that you will be adjusting. The Anchor Point animator in the Characteristics animator group under Text is for playing with the text position relative to the motion path i.e. above or below. It is in there to provide another level of flexibility after the ribbon is completed.

Dave

[D Langley]

Steven, sorry I diddn’t see your post until this morining. You are correct it is the Anchor Point settings under Transform on each text layer that you will be adjusting. The Anchor Point animator in the Characteristics animator group under Text is for playing with the text position relative to the motion path i.e. above or below. It is in there to provide another level of flexibility after the ribbon is completed.

Dave

[D Langley]

Did you adjust the Comp_Spacing slider?

Dave

[D Langley]

Did you adjust the Comp_Spacing slider?

Dave

[D Langley]

sam.mltn, sorry you lost sleep over it, but I’m glad it was you found it exciting enough to give up a nights rest.