From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 18 3D Text Cinema 4D Lite
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Creating and kerning text in C4D Lite - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 18 3D Text Cinema 4D Lite
Creating and kerning text in C4D Lite
- [Voiceover] Let's create our text in CINEMA 4D. To do that, I'm gonna go up to the Spline icon, click and hold, and select Text. This will create just the splines for text. It will not create the actual model yet. I'll select that. The default word is Text. This new object will be selected in my Objects Manager and because of that, these parameters will appear down in the Attributes Manager. If I accidentally deselect my text, you notice the Attributes Manager goes blank, no problem, either select the Text back in your viewport or in your Objects Manager and you'll get the parameters back. Okay. First thing is I want to make this word "electricity." This is where you need to check your spelling. I have a bad habit of mistyping words. Here's my word. It's offset to the right. I think I like it to be centered, so the center of my word is at my origin, the center of my world. To do that, I will change the Alignment from Left to Middle. That's better. And now I'm gonna check if I need…
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