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Animating type: Digital flip sign

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Animating type: Digital flip sign

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- Here's another type effect I like a lot, I call it a digital flip sign. It's kind of like those old signs that you used to see in ferry terminals or railroad stations. Let's take a look. Let me show you in the Preview panel. See how the numebrs flip, flip, flip? And then at the end we just have the hand flying in to finish things off. But what I want to talk about is how we get these numbers to flip. I'm gonna go to the second page of this file where I've left the first set of numbers animated, but I want to show you how we animate the second set of numbers, the 10 to 9 years. Each of these is actually a stack of numbers. Let's start with the 10 years group. If we look at the Layers panel we can see they go down in order, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6. I want to animate them all the same. And I want them to animate in a very specific order, from 10 going down, so I'm gonna select them in that order. I'll use the Layers panel, since they're stacked on top of each other. So I'll hold down the shift…

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