From the course: After Effects CC 2021 Essential Training: Motion Graphics
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Use text animators - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CC 2021 Essential Training: Motion Graphics
Use text animators
- [Narrator] In addition to animating a text layers conventional transformed properties, we can animate the individual characters within the layer by adding any number of text layer animator properties. Text animators are a unique tool in After Effects that can help make our motion graphics more dynamic. In this movie, we'll see why they are powerful and how they can open the door to more dynamic text movement. So here in this first example, I've got my animation of texts, it's four layers and really the only animation I've got going is the scaling of this last word. Everything else is just popping on. So we have a popping on, popping on. The shape layers animated, of course, but text-wise, scaling is the only thing happening here. So, rather than having this first line Here is A, pop on altogether. Let's go ahead and use text animators to bring on that text more dynamically. So let's go ahead and select layer two…
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