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P.Daguerre
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December 1, 2020
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Text animation

  • December 1, 2020
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I am rather new in the animation business and perhaps my ambition is set to high, but what I am trying to make is a text line that disappear in a page peel/page turn fashion. Imagine the text on a piece of transparent tape. Now take the right en of the tape and pull it off by dragging the end to the left in the scene thus turning the characters backside facing you as the tape is pulled off.

I have looked at the differnt presets but can't find anything that looks like what I aim for and I've watched all the tutorial videos that there are but I can't figure out how to accomplish this.

I'd much appreciate some help.

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Correct answer Rick Gerard

This is pretty easy to do using the CC Page Turn Effect. If you use Page Turn on one layer, the fold is behind the text. To get the file in front of the text you have to use two layers. It's a good idea to tie key properties together with simple expressions created with the pickwhip from the Links/Switches column. You can reveal that column by pressing Shift + F4. You should also have the Modes and Switches column visible. Do that by turning on the two icons at the bottom left corner of the Timeline panel. This screenshot shows how I tied the Source Text, Fold Position, and Fold Radius of the top copy of the text layer to the bottom one and how I set the top copy to render only the back and the bottom copy to render only the front.

The screenshot shows you everything I have done to the layers.

 

Without the use of 3rd party plug-ins or converting the text layer to a 3D layer then exporting as a C4D file and animating the C4D text layer in Cinema 4D Lite, this is the easiest solution. 

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December 2, 2020

This is pretty easy to do using the CC Page Turn Effect. If you use Page Turn on one layer, the fold is behind the text. To get the file in front of the text you have to use two layers. It's a good idea to tie key properties together with simple expressions created with the pickwhip from the Links/Switches column. You can reveal that column by pressing Shift + F4. You should also have the Modes and Switches column visible. Do that by turning on the two icons at the bottom left corner of the Timeline panel. This screenshot shows how I tied the Source Text, Fold Position, and Fold Radius of the top copy of the text layer to the bottom one and how I set the top copy to render only the back and the bottom copy to render only the front.

The screenshot shows you everything I have done to the layers.

 

Without the use of 3rd party plug-ins or converting the text layer to a 3D layer then exporting as a C4D file and animating the C4D text layer in Cinema 4D Lite, this is the easiest solution. 

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    P.DaguerreAuthor
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    December 2, 2020

    Thanks a lot Rick!

    This is exactly what I aimed for. Fingers crossed that  I can follow your instructions correct. I'll yell for your help if I get stuck! 😉

    Peter

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    P.DaguerreAuthor
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    December 2, 2020

    Hi again Rick!

    Seems I immedeately got stuck! I started a new project by typing a text of appropriate length in the composition panel wich, as expected, turned up in the timeline. Now, in the space to the left of the actual timeline there are options to what you can do, but I miss the "fx" symbol. It's there in the header (transfer controls pane) just above but not on the line representing my text. Under other symbols there are small boxes where you can tick or untick that specific function but under "fx" the box is greyed out. What have I missed?

    Regards

    Peter

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