Need suggestion on how to do 3D spinning title animation

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Need suggestion on how to do 3D spinning title animation

Hello all experts,

I need suggestion on how to do 3D rotating title animation. Let me explain what i wanted to do.

The end product is the word WELCOME.

But I want to animate it in such a way that the alphabelt W first appear as nothing from inside the screen to appear in the screen (that means zoom from small to big, is it called zoom out ?). In the process of zooming out, I want the W to have a thickness & it spins very fast along the horizontal X-axis and stops at the screen with the alphbelt W.

Then the whole process repeat with E, and I have WE. It then repeats with L and I have WEL. This whole thing repeats until it forms the word WELCOME.

Any suggestions ? Is there an inbuilt preset for this ?

If not, if I do from scratch, do I need a separate track for each alphabelt ?

Thank you very much.

Cheers.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.6), 24 inches, 4GB RAM, 2.8GHz, 320GB HDD, 256MB ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro

Posted on May 9, 2009 8:10 AM

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Answer 1

Nick Holmes

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May 9, 2009 11:37 AM in response to RyanManUtd

You would have to build this one from scratch, but it's pretty easy.

Work on the whole word first to get the basic movement, then play with the Timing settings in the Inspector. To have the letters do this one after the other use the Sequence setting. Typically you would set it to the number of letters in your word plus 1 -so your welcome should have a Sequence value of 8. You can of course set it to whatever you think looks best.

Give it a go and let us know how you get on. Don't forget to save your new effect!

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Answer 2

RyanManUtd Author

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May 9, 2009 12:37 PM in response to Nick Holmes

Nick Holmes wrote:
You would have to build this one from scratch, but it's pretty easy.

Work on the whole word first to get the basic movement, then play with the Timing settings in the Inspector. To have the letters do this one after the other use the Sequence setting. Typically you would set it to the number of letters in your word plus 1 -so your welcome should have a Sequence value of 8. You can of course set it to whatever you think looks best.

Give it a go and let us know how you get on. Don't forget to save your new effect!

Thanks Holmes but where do I find the Sequence settings ?

Thanks

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Answer 3

Nick Holmes

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May 9, 2009 1:02 PM in response to RyanManUtd

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RyanManUtd Author

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May 9, 2009 9:43 PM in response to Nick Holmes

Nick Holmes wrote:

Thanks, I did that but for some reason the Sequence is grey-out. So I cannot change the Sequence settings.

Any ideas ?

Thanks

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Answer 5

Nick Holmes

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May 10, 2009 7:04 AM in response to RyanManUtd

Add an effect container to the Timeline that has some form of movement programmed.

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RyanManUtd Author

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May 12, 2009 11:17 AM in response to Nick Holmes

Nick Holmes wrote:
Add an effect container to the Timeline that has some form of movement programmed.

Hi Nick,

I did not manage to animate & spin the alphabelts individually.

Would it be to much to ask if you can show me how to animate the W and E ?

I would be able then to complete the L, C, O, M and E.

Thank you.

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Answer 7

skalicki

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May 13, 2009 2:33 PM in response to RyanManUtd

Maybe watching a tutorial on creating your own effect would help you. Here's a good website:
http://www.livetypecentral.com/cgi-bin/livetypecentral.cgi/tutorials.html

Watch the one titled +Livetype Basics - Part 4+ (from about 8:45-15:55). This will teach you about keyframing.

Keyframe the text size in the Text tab and the Rotation in the Attributes tab. Then alter the sequence timing as Nick mentioned to get them to come in one by one.

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