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Animating titles and setting timing

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Animating titles and setting timing

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- These titles are basically cards in 3D space. They look nice, but I think that we can breathe more life to them by animating each title to rise from the floor at the correct timing and sync it to the steps of the runner. So just as a quick reminder, this is what we have so far. We've placed the titles on the floor, and we've matched their position to the steps of the runner. And we don't want them to be visible from the beginning until the end. I want to animate them over time. So, I'm going to select the first title over here. And just so it will be easy to see what I'm doing, I'm going to turn off the eyes for all the other layers. I'm also going to zoom in a touch so we'll get a sense of how it looks, 100 percent. Now, this is already a 3D layer. So I want to animate it as if it is opening from the floor, from the ground up, meaning that it is level with the floor and then rotating up. And it looks like we are in a good spot because the anchor point of this layer is exactly where…

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