From the course: After Effects: Principles of Motion Graphics
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Animating type - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects: Principles of Motion Graphics
Animating type
- [Instructor] While there are tons of different ways one can animate type in After Effects, in this video, we're going to focus on primarily three different methods. So in the zero two zero three animating type project, I want you to go ahead and double click on the animating type composition to open it here in the timeline. Now if you look at the top of the timeline, you'll see we have text, mixology, a graphic for a line, and then another layer of text, the art of concoction. So let's start by animating layer one, my text layer. I want to animate this just like any other layer. If I open up my text layer here, you'll notice I have text options and transform options, so if open transform, I could adjust anchor point, position scale, rotation, just like any other layer. In fact, let's select layer two and press the U key to open in the animated properties and you can see I've already got two key frames here to…
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