From the course: After Effects 2020 Essential Training: The Basics
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Putting text in motion - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects 2020 Essential Training: The Basics
Putting text in motion
- Okay, so a lot of what you can do with text in Photoshop and Illustrator is also possible in After Effects, but what about animating type? Although the particular design we're looking at doesn't really call for animating individual words and characters, let's take a look at a little bit of what's possible with animation before matching the motion of this text to the shot. Okay, so now we know a lot of what you can do with text in Photoshop and Illustrator is also possible in After Effects, but what about animating type? Although this particular design doesn't call for elaborate animation of individual words and characters, let's take a look at a little bit of what's possible with animation before solving the motion of the text in this shot. So I'm going to clean up a little bit here and just trim this layer in. If I hold down the Shift key, I can snap it to the layer below it, and I'm also going to set my work…
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