From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 06 Type and Music
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Separating fields - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 06 Type and Music
Separating fields
As you can see in this animation, the characters are changing color, they are also bouncing up and down, and they have a little rotation added-- and this is all thanks to the Wiggly selector, which I'll be covering in this chapter. I'll also be showing you how to work with interlaced footage, as well as how to render just the type animation with an alpha channel. So if you have the exercise files, I am previewing final comp 08-Wiggly. In the next chapter, Chris will be adding audio, as well as showing you how to add layer markers. (music playing) And yes, that penguin really is that cute. So let's get started! If you have the exercise files, open comp 08-Wiggly*starter. If you don't have the exercise files, just create some type that you like to work with. Here I have a nice chunky font. The font is Poplar, black, and I've added a small stroke and a drop shadow. All of those are optional; however, I would add some color to your text. I am using blue, but any color will do, except for…
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