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John Sappo replied to the discussion Basic Text Animator in the forum Adobe After Effects

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:59:49 +0000

Joe-

I added a line of text to the test file and set up the keyframes similar to the example you provided.

Two things:

1) I can’t achieve a similar fade, the text just pops on in this setup. This is kinda cool, but how I do preserve it if desired?

2) The text fade appears on screen from left to right, how I get it to fade out from left to right…

John Sappo replied to the discussion Basic Text Animator in the forum Adobe After Effects

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:35:32 +0000

Reply to Basic Text Animator

WOW! Thanks for the fast replies, and test file you provided Joe!

It’s very close.

The start / end values makes more sense. I will adjust that.

Thank you both. 🙏

John Sappo started the discussion Basic Text Animator in the forum Adobe After Effects

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:48:52 +0000

Basic Text Animator

Hi-

this might seem so basic to some but I have a simple text animator that fades the text on screen. See image attached.

The fade moves to the right, and after the text is on screen for a bit, i want it to reverse the way it appeared. When i keyframe the offset value back to the starting value the fade starts from the left again. how can i…

John Sappo started the discussion Expression control for shape fill in the forum Adobe After Effects

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 03:11:38 +0000

Expression control for shape fill

Is there any info, tip, tricks, or suggestions you might have regarding expression control for the fill of about 170 triangle shapes?

I’m trying to achieve the effect of clusters of the triangles appear on screen. Kindy glitchy, but not distorted ya know?

See pic attached.

Thanks so much in advance!

John Sappo replied to the discussion Dots to assemble a map in the forum Adobe After Effects

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 15:14:08 +0000

Reply to Dots to assemble a map

Chris-

Thanks so much for your reply! This is a good start for me to to explore. I think you’re right this project is going to require that combo of expressions and hand animating.

Stay 100

John Sappo started the discussion Dots to assemble a map in the forum Adobe After Effects

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:05:25 +0000

Dots to assemble a map

I’m working on a project that is largely inspired from the Apple Intentions video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcGPI2tV2yY).

I want to make a bunch random dots that are moving around randomly then assemble into a map, and then start to vary the size of the dots that represent the map to show density areas.

Any tips or suggestions for the…

John Sappo replied to the discussion Circular Path Data Stays the Same? in the forum Adobe After Effects

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:53:47 +0000

Reply to Circular Path Data Stays the Same?

Thanks for your reply, Tatiana.

I discovered that the path data was relative and not absolute and hence what was causing the issue.

Something so basic in the procedure that I overlooked.

Bless up.

John Sappo started the discussion Circular Path Data Stays the Same? in the forum Adobe After Effects

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 21:22:43 +0000

Circular Path Data Stays the Same?

hi!

I have a series of circles in a design that have smaller circles that orbit around their respective parent circular paths.

To get the smaller circles to orbit around the larger path I have copied the larger circle’s path data and pasted it to the position of the smaller circles. With some manipulation of the keyframes, it works nicely!

Now when…