Introduction to Cavalry for Motion Graphics

Overview

“Type is one of the most powerful features within Cavalry. There are many things you can do with text in this program. In this unit, I’m going to show you much of what you will need to know about working with typography.”

In this video lesson Kyle Daily addresses the topic: Text Objects, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 2: Shapes, Objects, and Assets. Learn about shapes, and experiment with text, images, and data .

Partial transcription of the video

“ COURSE 2 - LESSON 3 Text Objects Typography is one of the most powerful features within Cavalry. It's also one of my personal favorites. In this lesson, I'll teach you all you need to know about typography. Let's type. The Type Tool is located here on the left-hand side of this menu. From here, we can select Space, click and start typing right there. We can also click and drag to create a type box. You can fill this with information. It's a paragraph box, essentially. Lastly, we can Option + click Type Tool to create a type layer that has been centered at the 0, 0 point, is left aligned, ...”

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Course summary for: Course 2: Shapes, Objects, and Assets

• Level: Beginner
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