From the course: After Effects Guru: Animating Typography

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Refining the animation

Refining the animation - After Effects Tutorial

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Refining the animation

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Now we have a pretty firm grasp on how the selectors work and how to apply individual parameters to an animation. But, in this video we're going to get down to the nitty-gritty as to how to refine the animation and create a complete total customized animation for our text. So, let's get started. So let's scroll up in our timeline here and make sure we have layer two selected. With layer two selected, you could see we only have one animator applied underneath our text here. The way we want this text to animate, I want the text to actually fade in, letter by letter, and then we'll animate it out. So, where the text actually scales down, changes color and blurs out. As it's doing that. If we open up our Animator here, you can see we already have Scale applied, and the Fill Color applied. But we know, as we drag the selection, it's going to change the scale and the color. But I also want this specific part of the animation to blur. So, let's go back to the Add button, right here, on your…

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