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Master complex text animations in Adobe After Effects through this comprehensive 36-minute tutorial that demystifies the software's powerful text animation engine. Begin with a crash course on text animators fundamentals before diving into practical techniques for animating typography, adding text to paths, and working in 3D space with camera settings. Explore advanced methods including distort effects, graphic accents creation, and grouping text animators for more sophisticated results. Learn essential workflow optimization by saving custom presets and implementing wiggly selectors for random text animations. Discover how to create seamless looping animations and integrate sound design to enhance your motion graphics. The tutorial covers time remapping techniques and demonstrates how to bring all elements together for a polished final animation, providing downloadable project files for hands-on practice and featuring insights on working with public domain films for creative projects.
Syllabus
00:00 Intro
00:59 Text Animators Crash Course
03:12 Animating Type with Text Animators
09:16 Adding Type to a Path
10:21 3D Space & Camera Settings
12:49 Adding Distort Effects
14:03 Graphic Accents with Text Animators
16:26 Grouping Text Animators
21:49 Saving Presets
22:52 Wiggly Selector for Random Text Animation
27:45 Looping the Text Animation
29:06 Films in the Public Domain
29:53 Bringing the Animation Together
32:14 Context
33:13 Time Remapping
33:52 Sound Design
34:58 Final Animation
Taught by
School of Motion