[Graham Quince]

I’m sorry you’re struggling. Obviously we’re going to talk about AE here and I don’t have experience with other VFX / compositing software so can’t help much.

Might be worth taking a different approach to rendering – have you tried software render only, for instance?

[Graham Quince]

I’m looking on my iPad at the moment and can’t see a screenshot, I don’t know if that’s because there’s not one attached or because… well… ipad.

Can you try posting one so we can understand the problem, if the tv is in element, but appearing transparent that sounds like the materials you’ve chosen have an alpha channel or maybe it’s that there’s an opacity setting on the layer.

[Graham Quince]

How do you mean reveal? Like you want them to draw on, wipe on or something else?

If you have a link to how you web developers show the shapes, that might be a help.

If it’s just how to make intersecting shapes, I made this tutorial recently:

https://youtu.be/wsXwMOpOWfY

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[Graham Quince]

There is a great recent tutorial by Texturelabs, which touches on this:

https://youtu.be/Z5Fm2U1Kb5Q

Right towards the end he uses CC Light Ray to add some touches of sparkles.

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[Graham Quince]

Nice solution

[Graham Quince]

So it’s a little hard to tell what’s happening in the recording. It looks the the address you paste in is a ZIP file – that’s a compressed format – you’ll need to unzip that to then import the files into After Effects.

[Graham Quince]

Nice one, thanks for posting the solution, it’ll help the next person struggling.

[Graham Quince]

Unfortunately, I only have Particular 4, so the project opens, but I can’t tell what the issue is, I just see a white circle? I’m guessing Trapcode have moved the layer selector somewhere else.

Are you using a Sprite as the particle type, this always points towards the camera.

[Graham Quince]

That’s weird. Are you in Windows 11? Are you using the scale options in Display properties? That might be causing the problem.

[Graham Quince]

For the large characters, try one of the text presets for animate in.

For the lower animation, have two copies of the text. For the top copy, use a linear wipe transition to wipe the text on.