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Happy Turkey Day - Making text rotate around an object

I have a student who is working on her final project. She has a photo of a hand and is making text rotate from behind the finger to the top of the hand. She asked for some help and this is the first method I showed her. I’ll post the second in subsequent posts, but […]

2006 11 22 After Effects
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Star Wars Scroll

Yeah, you know this one, so I’m not going to bother with a movie. I had this one freebie up in the Toolfarm Free Presets section a while back and never copied it over when the AE Freemart was relaunched. You’ve been waiting a long time, haven’t you. A long, long time…
I’ll tell you that […]

2006 11 13 Preset
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Blur On Type Preset

It wasn’t until I was teaching a seminar on After Effects (just a couple weeks ago) that I noticed AE7 now includes ‘blur’ as a animatable type property. After scanning the “useful” AE type presets, I only found one that animates in by blur, word by word. And it wasn’t very interesting. I’ve always […]

2006 10 09 Preset
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Text pop-on transition

I tried to put this one up yesterday but Blogger was feeling under the weather. Kevin, one of my students, was trying to make a text effect similar to this. I used the text as an alpha matte for the Statue of Liberty, but the preset contains just the text effect. You can modify it […]

2006 09 29 Preset Comments (0)

Glow-On Text by Roland Kahlenberg of broadcastGEMs

In a bit of a conspicuous advertising for broadcastGEMs, Roland Kahlenberg gives you this groovy, versitile text glow-on effect.
Roland has some customizing tips for you, too. “Remember that the effect requires three indentical text layers stacked on top of each other. The top two layers create the highlight effect while the lowest layer creates the […]

2006 08 21 After Effects Comments (0)

Text Preset

Here’s a simple text preset using a few techniques I commonly use (also covered in a tutorial that I did). In short, combining the Set Matte filter with the AE Type tool can lead to some quick and easy results.
There’s some Fractal Noise in the background creating a slight fog effect, andan Adjustment Layer […]

2006 08 08 Trapcode Shine
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