[Jason Jantzen]

Effect/Presets – type in the search box: typewriter. Adjust the key frames for your desired speed, pauses, etc.

Add position wiggle expression to Position parameter on the text layer wiggle(5,15) 5 is the frequency of the wiggle (5 times per second), and 15 is the amount of movement (15 pixels in X and Y). Adjust to your liking.

Now if you want all those textures, etc. I would precomp the text layer animation BEFORE adding a wiggle and do all your texturing inside the precomp.

It looks like the background is animated independently from the text as the text doesn’t rotate or move with the camera movements. Either way you do it, it’s all up to your taste, but you could switch the Text Precomp and background layers to 3D, add a camera and animate the camera slightly to give everything more depth.

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[Jason Jantzen]

I’d have to do some digging as I do my day to day work on a PC, but I have an older macbook pro at home too.

What is that you’re trying to do with the script, other than the obvious custom keyboard shortcut editing? I haven’t found a need for that script since I worked exclusively on a laptop (limited keyboard).

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[Jason Jantzen]

If you have the Stroke effect on that solid and the stroke isn’t showing up, make sure the effect is looking at the new mask.

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[Jason Jantzen]

If it’s a closed path, offset path should do the trick. I’d duplicate the current path inside the shape layer and add offset path to that so you can change the color. You’ll find the path operations in the dropdown menu ‘Add’ when you twirl down the shape layer controls.

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/overview-shape-layers-paths-vector.html#about_shapes_and_shape_layers

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[Jason Jantzen]

So many variables involved. Maybe you could share your project? Screenshots?

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[Jason Jantzen]

Hey Jim, sorry, I didn’t write that. I just saved it from this thread here:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/227/25456#26611

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[Jason Jantzen]

I’m curious what you figure out. On the other hand, why do you want it to behave like that? No analogue clock works like that.

I have this cool ticking script that overshoots the second hand like a real ticking clock would.

ttf=timeToFrames(t = time + thisComp.displayStartTime, fps = 1.0 / thisComp.frameDuration, isDuration = false);
compFrameRate=15;
angle=Math.floor(ttf/compFrameRate)*6;
if (ttf % compFrameRate == 0) {
angle+=.5;
} else if (ttf % compFrameRate ==1) {
angle-=.5;
}

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[Jason Jantzen]

Namo Media was all done with illustrations, no 3D or even faux 3D required. The second video looks like an Element model with the textures set to flat (Illumination 100% and checkbox for diffuse color selected). To do an animated screen with Element, there are tutorials for that. It would be easier to search for one of those instead of giving you a step-by-step process here.

C4D is great for the flat 2d colors and such, but takes some real practice and time to make it look beautiful. EJ at eyedesyn.com has a lot of awesome tutorials on that, but you need C4D studio to render the stuff.

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I’ve never had much luck bringing shape layers into Newton unless it’s a simple square. In your case, instead of troubleshooting, I’d just work around like you were thinking. Create your logo out of masked solids. There’s a good RD script for this to convert from shapes to masks, or -if the script doesn’t work- you can just copy and paste shape paths to masks on solids (mask must be present to copy from shape to mask), or even copy them from Illustrator straight onto a solid in AE (no previous mask necessary with this method). Assuming your AI file is the same dimension as the AE comp, it should all line up perfectly. Animate the masked solids, then parent your logo to the solids.

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[Jason Jantzen]

Are you trying to match the finger movement and “inertia” effect as the screen scrolls to a stop? What Dave’s suggesting is basically the best way to go about it. Are you familiar with the graph editor? I’d take some time to get to know it and really learn it, otherwise you might try a script like Keysmith that lets you plug in the numbers for influence and velocity, among other things.

Still, learn the graph editor. It’s the bane of most motion designer’s existence. Once you get over that, you’ll enjoy keyframing in AE much more.

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