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After Effects Lesson 6 1
After Effects Lesson 6 1
This Fractal Noise Layer will act as the main shockwave effect for the animation.
Applying Paint
2. Right/CTRL click on your Paint composition in the timeline and choose Open
Layer.
3. Make sure you have a solid brush tip selected from the brush options.
4. Begin to paint over your letters. You must do this in continuous strokes for each
letter or part of the letter. Every time you use the brush a new brush effect is
applied.
1. In the timeline search bar type end. This will bring up the end effects for the
paint animation.
2. Use CTRL to select all brush end properties, ensure you are at the beginning of
the timeline and activate keyframing.
3. Set the End value to 0%.
4. Now adjust each brush layer by dragging it right so as to create the effect
that the text is being written on the composition.
5. Finally select all these keyframes and apply Easy Ease (right-click>Keyframe
Assistant>Easy Ease)
1. Duplicate the Paint Layer and name the duplicate Font ensuring it now sits
above the Paint layer.
2. Select the font layer and delete the Paint effect (you can do this by
highlighting the paint effect in your effect controls window and pressing
delete).
3. Ensure that you have switches toggled on (shortcut is F4).
4. Change the TrkMat (Track Matte) value on the Paint composition layer to
Alpha Matte Font.
5. Finally in the Paint options in the Effects Panel select the Paint on Transparent
option.
Now that we have a basic write on effect we can make all the adjustments we
want. Try out some of the following
1. Select the Paint layer and choose Effect>Generate>Fill to change the colour
of the text.
1. Select the Paint or Font layer and choose Effect>Stylise>Roughen Edges and
adjust the values to your writing.
1. Pre-compose the Font and Paint Layers into their own composition.
2. Right/Ctrl Click the new composition in the timeline layer and select
Time>Time remapping.
3. Activate a keyframe at the end of the animation and drag it to a new time to
either rspeed up or slow down your write-on effect.