Advanced After Effects

Overview

“As a final part of this lesson, I will teach you one last animation option that you can generate basically with two texts and a couple of expressions. For this you will need some icons, I recommend that you draw them yourself in Illustrator. You will learn how to use Glyphter to be able to make your own font with the icons that you want to use in your animation.”

In this video lesson Carlos "Zenzuke" Albarrán addresses the topic: Other uses of text and shape layers 6, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 1: Shape Layers and Text Animators. Easily create complex animations using shape layers and text animators.

Partial transcription of the video

“COURSE 1 - UNIT 4 Other uses of text and shape layers The last exercise we will do is this. Do not worry that, if you have been attentive, this is a lot easier than it sounds at first. We did it basically with two texts and a couple of expressions. We'll see how it's done right now. The trick is that we made a specific font with our own icons. Doing so is much easier than it sounds. We draw a lot of icons in Illustrator and we export them all in SVG at the same size. We export the letters from A to P and for the numbers from 0 to 9. Numbers are smaller symbols like ornament and the letters ...”

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Course summary for: Course 1: Shape Layers and Text Animators

• Level: Advanced
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