From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 18 3D Text Cinema 4D Lite
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Animating the effector - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 18 3D Text Cinema 4D Lite
Animating the effector
- We set up an effector to push our text around. We set up a forcefield so that we taper that effect. In this movie we're going to animate this forcefield to bring our text on and in the next movie we'll refine that animation. So what I want is for the text to start all the way back and end up all the way on. To do that I'm going to find what position of the effector has all the characters back at their starting position. I can watch the display on my left and I can watch all three displays for confirmation. So I start to see a character just start to emerge, and push back and that looks like that'll be a good starting position. I'll make sure my current time indicator is at frame zero, the start of my animation, select my plain effector, go to it's coordinates since I am moving it, and enable Key Framing for that X dimension of that effector since I am moving it along the X axis. And there's my first key frame. Then I need to make a guess about how long I want this animation to be…
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