From the course: Maya: Motion Graphics Workflow with MASH
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How to use type with MASH - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya: Motion Graphics Workflow with MASH
How to use type with MASH
- [Voiceover] Now we're gonna take a look at how to connect type with MASH to be able to have procedural control of our type animation, which is a really great, easy and fun way to create some cool type effects. So first, we're gonna create some type. So we'll go into our Create menu and we'll create type. Go to my type menu here, I'm gonna the type MONSTER MASH. Cool, and I'm gonna select a bit of a bolder font. Search down here, there's one on this machine that I liked for this purpose. There we go, awesome. A big sans serif nice display font will work, anything you'd like. Okay, so now we've got this, I'm gonna turn off my grid just so we can see this clearly. I'm also gonna turn on the wireframe view so we can see that. There's a few things we want to do just to make this geometry good geometry, and geometry that's gonna work well with our system. So with the type selected, let's go to our type1 node and let's go under Geometry. Let's go to Mesh Settings. A couple of things, I'm…
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