From the course: After Effects Tips and Techniques: Shapes, Text Masks, and Path Effects
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Auto-animating text with the Wiggly Selector - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Tips and Techniques: Shapes, Text Masks, and Path Effects
Auto-animating text with the Wiggly Selector
- If the subjects call for it, you can, of course, make wonderful per character text animations very easily inside After Effects. In this movie, I want to show you one of my favorite auto-animating text feature which is the Wiggly Selector. We are only going to use one, maybe two geometric properties in order the drive the whole animation and make our title sing. If you ask yourself, "What is the title that I'm referring to?" well let me so you first the project that we are working with by pressing tilde when my mouse is over the composition panel, this will make it full screen, and then I'm going to press zero on the Now Look to see a preview of the current state of this project. (electronic zapping) Okay, let's return to the full interface and we want to actually work on this title, the Envisioning The Future title. Now if you ask herself how this lady's walking and hiding this title over here, this is thanks to the fact that I've used the obstruct effect to create a…
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