Learn to animate handwriting in Adobe After Effects using a template in this 34-minute video tutorial. Install and customize the Grace Animated Typeface template to create romantic openers, introductions, or moving text for your videos. Explore techniques for editing templates, changing writing speed, and enhancing your project with watercolor backgrounds and textures. Master skills such as keyframing, using the Graph Editor, applying effects, and adjusting camera movements to create professional-looking animated text. Suitable for beginners and experienced video producers alike, this tutorial provides step-by-step guidance on creating eye-catching animated handwriting effects quickly and easily.
Overview
Syllabus
Intro
Project Overview
Opening the Project
Resolving Fonts
Write Your Text
Create a New Comp
Comp Settings
Script
Open Script File
Open Script
Testing Script
Null Layer
Tracking
Font Size
Crop Comp
Final Result
Editing Individual Characters
Creating a New Comp
Enabling Time Remapping
Scrubbing
Adding Keyframes
Bezier Curve
Graph Editor
Speed Graph
Save
Envato Elements
Watercolor Backgrounds
Watercolor Textures
New Comp
Adding the Image
Changing the Color
Resizing
Watercolor Texture
Title as Alpha Mat
Linear Burn
Rough Edges
Fractal Influence
Duplicate Layers
Gaussian Blur
Curves
Top Point
Rough and Edges
Duplicate
Border
Edges
Evolution
Inks
Duplicate Text
Simple Choker
Choke
Decrease Choke
Paste
Sequence Layers
Overlap Sequence Layers
Layer Opacity
Zoom In
Prerender
Trim Comp
File Format
Rendering
Copying
Speed
Camera Null
Rotate Null
Adjust Camera Position
Adjust Depth of Field
Adjust Camera Movement
Adjust ZRotation
Adjust Keyframes
Depth of Field
Focus Distance
Push Out
Result
Ink Bleed
Turn Off Depth of Field
Conclusion
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