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Creating controlled chaos with type animators

Creating controlled chaos with type animators - After Effects Tutorial

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Creating controlled chaos with type animators

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Now, in this video, we're going to create kind of a chaotic text animation, where we'll jump into the next half a dimension. We'll fly our 2D text around in 3D space. And we'll use animators to control that animation. And, of course, it's going to look like controlled chaos. So, let's check it out. Here you'll see we have our SURF SEASONS title. And for this video we'll just focus on SURF. I encourage you to continue your own animation by animating SEASONS after we create our initial SURF animation. But let's go ahead an, and focus on SURF for now. Select layer one. Make sure your current time indicator is back at frame zero. And I want these letters to fly in, in 3D space. So, let's go up under Animation and choose Browse Presets. You may not have all of these different folders. I just have a bunch of presets. The folder you want to pay attention to is the text folder. So, double-click on the Text folder. And then, in here, let's go into the 3D Text folder. Once inside 3D Text, go…

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