Disperse

Disperse from Praefa Uennatornwaranggoon on Vimeo.

This is done by using the path tool(divide) in illustrator to turn text (outlines) into different fragments. Then putting the different fragments into different layers and then transforming their positions on After Effects.....

there's probably a plugin or an effect for this and it probably only takes a second but i did all this manually and it did take quite a while but I learnt a few things so I guess it was worth it?

Experimental 3D Click

I wanted to animate some 3-dimensional type on After Effects and found that it was pretty hard. I could import 3d looking type from illustrator but I couldn't animate it or alter the actual 3D type. So, I looked up some techniques and you can actually animate 3 dimensional type using the 'shatter' effect.

apply the effect to a solid colour and use the 'custom' shape which is the type layer. and stop the effects from actually occuring but you can alter the extrusion depth of the type

Experimenting with 3D text in AE from Praefa Uennatornwaranggoon on Vimeo.

this is what i got

Click 1 and 2

Click 1 from Praefa Uennatornwaranggoon on Vimeo.

Click 2 from Praefa Uennatornwaranggoon on Vimeo.

Extend in motion 2

Extend in motion 2 from Praefa Uennatornwaranggoon on Vimeo.

Using letters created in Illustrator > outline

and then by using masks, i created this animatio

Story Boards

Excuse the rubbish photo quality.....once again, my battery ran out of my camera so Iphone camera had to come to the rescue.

Proper photos will be up after x mas

After Effects Induction 3 : TEXT

Creating text on After Effects

Character and Paragraph Tool Box

When creating text on Ae, Anchor Point is positions in bottom left hand corner
eg. if you apply transformation eg. rotation/ scale. It'll transform around that anchor point

when changing anchor point; the position of the text is actually the one to move rather than the anchor point ( this is not a very effective way of changing your anchor point)

The more effective way is to use the 'Pan Behind Tool'...then you can move the anchor point

The advantage of creating text in Ae rather than in Ai or Psd is that the text is editable and its in vector form.

NB. If your work is an Ai file, can click the square button with lines coming out at all directions in order to ' continuously rasterize vector\

'Source text'
This is a text property. No perimeter( numbers, units etc), No indicated Value
by any characters attribute can be animated > change anytime by using key frames

ANIMATOR

eg. Opacity,

then there are 2 opacity properties ( the layer and the text)

can do lots/ complicated things with only a few key frames.

The animator tool works really well as you don't need to use key frames
but use the 'range selector' tool instead

This is not shown in the images but the two vertical line down the sides of the text is the 'range' ..starting from the start of the word to the end.

This is how this work....

eg. The' start' button and the 'end' button... the end can have the value of 23% opcaity .

then key frame the end for a full opacity

and you get this...

Scaling

each character has their own anchor points

change the scale.....

then you can choose if you want to animate the whole word together, or separate characters etc.

MASKS

• if create 'shape' on top of the selected solid a layer....this creates a masks

eg. creating an Elispe> you can change the anchor points just like a vector shape in Ai.

• Each layer can have more than one mask
• Can animate properties under mask using key frames
  

Mask Expansion

Mask Feather

• 'Mask Path' property, key frame 'mask path' > change anchor points> can change the shape of the mask
• Masks can be applied to any layer eg. text, video, image
  

• Add mask to text layer. At finish ( the end of the comp) >enable Key Frame on mask path
  

NB.
in AI.
Create shape/text (turn to outline)>copy> paste in after Effects> will be pasted as mask


eg. A letter as mask.....but add to layer as allows you to work with the character and manipulate anchor points and paths ( can't do this any other way 0

If word...select ALL masks/ click them down, enable key frame for (mask path)
so you can actually manipulate the shape of the letter



another possibility for masks is........
If you have some texts created within Ae> 'PATH OPTIONS' under text layer
add mask under text layer but NOT a closed mask shape
eg. a line created by the pen tool

Can do a similar thing to type on shape path in AI

Path options> Path masks> attaches text to path more options
eg. First Margin, Last Margin

can use this to position text anywhere on path then if add key frames...can animate it