[Jason Jantzen]

Or, like Joseph suggests, you could use the stroke on the text layer, and then animate the width of the stroke. It’s probably the best way around it.

Is the text taking center stage? Because I did this once just to figure it out, and did it with shape layers with success (had to add some vertices to match the starting and ending keyframes), but in the end, nobody noticed it because the text wasn’t taking center stage (it was kind of small).

So what I’m saying, and what Joseph’s saying, is if it’s quick, nobody will really notice the animation, but only that something’s changed. And if you animate the stroke, you’ll get your morph without dissolving anything.

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[Jason Jantzen]

Glad it worked out for you! I love dynamic solutions like this.

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[Jason Jantzen]

Well, in the infinite void of creative block I’ve experienced this morning, somehow I managed to make this work. I just popped his looping wiggle expression into the temporal and spatial phase parameters and “oula!” It worked.

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Thanks George! This is exactly what I needed 😀 I animated a bouncing thing in Newton and needed to animate the shadow’s scale according to hte bouncing Y position.

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There are two different sets “refine” tools. One for the roto itself, and one for the “refine-edge” tool, which is brand spanking new as of the last release. There is a checkbox to enable both.

One word of advice when looking for help in the forums: post screen shots. It helps a ton for others to see what you see. I can’t tell exactly what settings you have or what you’ve done to end up with this scenario.

I might also add that it would help a lot to watch some tutorials on the new refine edge tool and roto brush itself. You might just find your mistake somewhere in those tutorials.

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[Jason Jantzen]

Kevin Camp had the correct answer. This is seconded by Todd Kopriva’s tweet a year and a half ago.

https://twitter.com/toddkopriva_ae/status/322825830898208769

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Most of it looks like frame by frame believe it or not. You could probably do it with keyframes procedurally using shape layers and stuff, but this style lends itself to Flash and hand drawn work.

I’d start here, or just start fiddling with shape layers and offsets, but the explosions are definitely all frame by frame (most likely in Flash). I say Flash because it’s the most common Adobe app amongst mograph designers that we all have access to that also has onion skinning and easy vector drawing tools. There are lots of tools for this, but the effect is achieved regardless of the tool when it comes to frame by frame.

https://mattrunks.com/en/tutorials/flash/2d-animation-flash

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[Jason Jantzen]

Sorry, I think that’s actually ctrl alt O. I never remember that one correctly because one of the other is the open Bridge shortcut.

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[Jason Jantzen]

you need to select align layer to path. Shift alt O is the shortcut for that.

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[Jason Jantzen]

Which model exactly are you talking about? This 27″ Dreamcolor here is $1200+

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1044901-REG/hp_hp_dreamcolor_z27x_professional.html

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