Examples and resources for text animation

For a video tutorial on animating text, go to the Adobe website at www.adobe.com/go/vid0226.

Colin Braley provides a tutorial and example project on his website that show how to use an expression on the Source Text property to animate text to overcome some of the limitations of the Numbers effect.

Eran Stern provides a set of video tutorials on the Creative COW website that show how to use the text animation features to create a variety of simple animations, including some that use punctuation and other non-alphanumeric symbols as simple vector graphics elements:

• Part 1

• Part 2

Eran Stern provides a video tutorial on the Creative COW website that demonstrates how to use per-character 3D text animation to animate text along a path in the shape of a 3D tornado.

Rhys Enniks provides a video tutorial on his website in which he uses expressions and multiple text animators and range selectors to animate text as if it is being typed onto a computer screen.

Chris and Trish Meyer provide a video tutorial on the ProVideo Coalition website about entering, editing, formatting, and typesetting text.

Paul Tuersley provides a script on the AE Enhancers forum for importing Substation Alpha (SSA) karaoke files and automatically creating animated text layers from them.

Harry Frank provides a tutorial on animating text with text animators on the Digital Arts Online website.

Aharon Rabinowitz provides a video tutorial on the Creative COW website that shows a few ways to make 3D extruded text in After Effects, using duplicate layers or the Shatter effect.

In the “After Effects Text Tips” series of video tutorials on the Creative COW website, Aharon Rabinowitz demonstrates how to use multiple text animators to create and fine-tune complex text animations.

Angie Taylor provides a tutorial on the Digital Arts website that shows how to use per-character 3D text animation together with a common workaround for simulating extruded 3D text.

• Example: Animate characters with per-character 3D properties
• Example: Offset characters
• Example: Animate characters with the Wiggly selector
• Example: Animate text tracking
• Example: Use selectors to animate specific words
• Example: Create a write-on animation
• Example: Animate text with multiple selectors
• Example: Animate text position with expressions
• Example: Animate text as a timecode display