From the course: Element 3D Essential Training (2013)
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Animating text
From the course: Element 3D Essential Training (2013)
Animating text
All right, folks! This is going to be a fun one, the culmination of everything we've been learning in this chapter. We are going to learn about how to use the Animation Engine to animate text, and we are also going to learn a lot of other stuff along the way, and we are going to be creating this cool, little project. (music playing) Now, you will notice with this, that, by the way, there is this actual 3D car and this is on the Element Car layer. But, just so your computers would not be totally destroyed, I pre-rendered this. But, for those of you that are interested, this actual layer is here and available for you. This is a multi-million vertices model, super high-quality, and Element handles it like a champ, so you can play around with that. But, what's happening here is that this text is animating kind of like regular old After Effects text, which is one of my favorite parts of After Effects, the way it can handle text, and do cool stuff with that. [00:00.56.36] And we miss that…
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