Technical Tutorial Blog

For this blog post, I am supposed to teach something that I learned how to animate, without the help of Mr.Netterville. So I learned how to animate text in Adobe After effects. So basically it is a pretty simple process of steps.

1. So to start with, you want to get whatever background you want behind your words and import it into after effect
2. Then you go to the tools panel and select the Horizontal Type tool
3. Next, click anywhere in the Composition panel, and type whatever you want it to say and then press Enter on the keyboard to select the text layer in the Composition panel.
4. Now if you go in the Character panel, you can chose whichever font you want and set font size to whatever you want
5. So next you will want to go to the Paragraph panel, and click the Center Text button so it will align the text in the middle and be centered.
6. Once everything is how you want it to look, you're ready to animate your text! So now you want to make sure your text layer is selected and then in the Timeline panel, move the time button to 3:00 and press the S key for scale
7. Then you want to press the little stopwatch button and add a key frame
8. Then, Move the time indicator thing to a different time, for example 5:00, and then press the scale value and reduce it about 50% or however much you want it to shrink. So by animating your text this way, you can make it grow and shrink!

After you do all of that, you can use things that we have learned in the passed, like ease in and ease out for example, to make it look more clean, or you can change the color of the text or anything else. This is just one of the many ways you can animate text while using after effects, which I learned on my own.