After Effects Text Tutorials

I found some After Effects tutorials that describe how to use the Text tool. I thought they could be useful for those working on their Title assignments. Ranging through a number of different styles, the tutorials cover many different kinds of text effects.






















For my title sequence, I'll probably end up using the jitter type or maybe the handwriting tutorials. I think either of them make the most sense for the good dinosaur.

The Awesomeness of After Effects

As we progress through learning how to use After Effects with our name animation project in mind, I thought I would make a post about all the things you can do with After Effects with a simple text layer.

This is a video I found on YouTube. The creator did all of this using just After Effects and I thought it was very interesting.

I think it is pretty obvious that After Effects has been used in many movies for some really crazy animation and motion graphics. Just going through videos I have realized what a vast program this is and how much we can learn about it by simply practicing and trying new things on it everyday.

This video is from Adobe.com and is a short interview from the animators of Iron Man 3 and Oblivion. Just looking at the video shows how complex it can be creating an animation sequence.

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/ae-me/how-after-effects-was-used-on-iron-man-3-oblivion/

While this can seem overwhelming, I think it's so amazing how much we can do with the program.

Stumbled upon this NikeSnowBoarding short video on my Vimeo timeline, because most of us are still working on our title sequences and just playing around with fonts and such I thought this would be a good inspiration. This is a 2D piece, so I liked how they applied depth through some effects-- that i can imagine being possible on After Effects.

Let me know how you feel about it.

Nike "Never Not" from Mike Bishop on Vimeo.