[Kramerican]

I did not know that the shapes had to be filled with a gradient. Also I guess the way you lay the gradient down (ie. full white to black gradient vs. grey to black gradient) is important because it will result in which characters get drawn first and how fast. It’s pretty cool.

Now I can’t get the blue glow he did to work out. I have the comp put into a new layer then duplicated, and offset by 1 frame. I applied a glow to the layer to an adjustment layer, but the result didn’t look too right.

I don’t know what they mean by “Make only a tip portion using “Track Matte””, and the arbituary map thing.

Thanks

[Kramerican]

Well, I have the chinese characters outlined in Illustrator. Where do I go from there?

[Kramerican]

Actually I’m stuck at the begining. I don’t know how to do the first two steps, but after that it looks pretty easy. I don’t know to prepare the actual Illustrator file, then doing something to it, then importing in to AE.