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Multiple animators

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- [Instructor] Sometimes, when you're working on a complex text animation, you need a tool to separate the parts of the animation from each other, so they don't step on each other's toes. Well, that tool is to use multiple animators. This particular exercise is included in the files for CS6 and for Creative Cloud. However, it's a feature that's been around as long as text animation has. I'm going to open up the comp MU2, Two Animators' starter and I'm going to perform a quick preview. And you see that we have some color change happening on the second word, and we're also using a wiggly selector to randomize the color across those characters. Now, we can play a lot to games with this, for example, right now we have a shape of ramp. That's what's causing the colors to change from yellow to red across this word. And that ramp shape is also causing the end characters to be randomized more than the early ones. You could…

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