For this section I was looking at animating
type in mor advanced ways.
For this I key framed the source text of
the text layer. I changed the colour. When adding key frames to the source text
it creates a hold plug-in, so there is not a gradual change but it will only
change on the frame of the key frame.
I then proceeded to animate more options
such as position, fill colour etc. to test out various effects.
Unfortunately due to After effects being
CS5 and not CS6 like in the tutorials I was not able to follow the 3D text and
ray tracing tutorials as I didn’t have the features available.
I then Animated Text on a path. To do this
I created a text layer of my name, and created a circle mask on that layer. In
order to change it from a mask to a shape, I changed to the mask type to None.
Then on the Text layer I changed the path
options to follow this mask shape. This made the text morph around into a
circle. I then animated the first margin using key frames to move, and for a bit
of fun added a video layer of a woman’s face in the center and masked it into a
circle.
The finished graphic looks similar to
something in a children’s show.
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