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Animation for letters

Community Beginner ,
Dec 12, 2019 Dec 12, 2019

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Hi everyone,

 

I came across this super cool video and curious if you have an idea how these animations are done? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J59n8FsoRLE&list=PLflwtIgzTRcrfGiciYdoOWsRmB-J2xyzz 

 

The first video. 

 

Thanks a lot! 

 

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Dec 12, 2019 Dec 12, 2019

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There is nothing in that video that cannot be recreated inside After Effects without using any 3rd party tools or scripts. It would require a very strong set of animation and design skills and many of the shots would require converting text to shape layers and animating paths. 

 

There are a bunch of 3rd party tools, many of them at AE Scripts, that would speed up the process and make it a lot easier for someone without a very professional level of artistic and animation skills to reproduce similar animations.

 

If you have a specific shot you want to reproduce let us know. Maybe we can give you a workflow that will make it easier to do. One more suggestion: If I had done that project every one of the words that were animated would be a separate composition. Trying to do everything in a single comp would be nuts...

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Hi Rick, 

 

Thanks a lot for your prompt reply. I want to do the one at 0.59'. Do you have an idea how I can do that without the AE script? 

 

Many thanks,

 

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That, specifically, is best accomplished by:

1. Make text layer containing the Y
2. Right click Create>Create Shapes from Text
3. Twirl down Contents>Y>Y>Path and click the stopwatch to add a keyframe
4. Move to a new time on the timeline select the bottom 2 points and move them where you want.
5. Move to a another new time on the timeline select the bottom 2 points again and move them where you want.
6. Playback

This is a good place to read up on vector layers: https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/overview-shape-layers-paths-vector.html

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