Animating text

[johnag]

Hello friends. I’m on an animating text adventure. I want to animate character by character a line of text. I found a preset that comes very close but I can’t work out how to tweak it to the reference supplied to me from client.
Here’s the ref

So in simple terms I want each letter to zoom and fade in on its’ spot character by character. I can do the blur and reveal with y_lensblur and masking

The closest presets I found to modify were the “behind camera 3d” and “fade in”

With the “3d behind camera” preset I managed to get this far but cannot work out how to put the centre point on each character.

Any help appreciated.

Many thanks

[randy]

Less than 3 minutes in After Effects.

https://www.google.com/search?q=after+effects+lettwrs+fade+on+and+scale+on&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#kpvalbx=_Lsz7ZKOcCb3GkPIPjveOwAM_73

[johnag]

Thanks Randy but I want a Flame solution

[julioleon]

Here you go John
Archive.zip (15.7 KB)

[johnag]

Thats perfect! I owe you a beer! Thank you so much. Now to understand how that works.

[julioleon]

Open the two animated channels: scale and transparency and play with the length, position, reverse, etc of those 2 channels. And the time offset.

[johnag]

Thanks. Did you make it from scratch or pick a preset and modify it?

[julioleon]

From scratch, I have a hard time understanding how to customise the presets.

[julioleon]

If you need help getting a closer result give me a shout. I have some time to tweak it!

[johnag]

Thanks for the offer. I’ve got it where it needs to be for now. It’s a shame that you can’t blur 3d text in action. I’m using y_lenseblur post animation to do that and it’s working well.