After Effects Guru: Integrating Type into Video Volume 2

Learn four unique type treatments that integrate with action on screen. Find out how to explode text, create liquid text, map text to moving objects, and animate type in Z space.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Dandelion Type Effect: Explode Text into Dozens of Seeds

• Deciding on mood, story, and typeface
• Modifying the timing with time remap
• Tracking the text to the motion of the video
• Animating the text using offset
• Scattering the type with Pixel Polly
• Adding glow
• Duplicating a second title
• Rotoscoping with the Roto Brush

2. Floating Type: Create a Liquid Text Simulation

• Studying the footage and planning the animation
• Designing a title using text and shape layers
• Designing the title using shape layers
• Creating a displace source
• Creating a water effect with caustics
• Moderating the distortion
• Isolating the bottle using color range
• Ripple effect transition

3. Perspective Match: Attach Type to Guitar Neck

• Analyzing the shot and designing the titles
• Planar tracking using mocha AE
• Pasting the tracking data
• Creating a fluorescent blinking effect
• Preparing a blur map
• Matching the focus with Camera Lens Blur
• Rotoscoping fingers using masks

4. Hot Spot Type: Add Graphics to Runner Steps

• Examining the footage and planning the animation
• Camera tracking preparations setup
• Adding titles across Z space
• Animating titles and setting timing
• Adding contact shadows and light
• Creating the pulse effect using radio waves
• Placing pulses under a runner's steps
• Masking the runner using Color Range

Conclusion

• What's next?