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Cascade text using Offset - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Logo Animation Techniques
Cascade text using Offset
- [Instructor] In this movie, we will animate the letters of the tagline text using the offset value in the text animator, so they will scale in in a cascade style like you are seeing here in the final state of this composition which you can always find under the final folder. All right, I'm going to close it down and I'm going to return to the current state. This is where we left off at the previous movie. Now we want to bring back the type, the text. Now, I switched it off, so I can turn it once again on. But since I want to access the individual letters, I'm actually going to copy and paste this text from Illustrator to After Effects. So I'm going to select this TAG line and then I'm going to go to the edit menu and choose edit original. And this, of course, will launch Adobe Illustrator and open the same document. Now, you'll may get a warning message asking you to sync font from typekit. I'm using here, if I'm going to select the TAG layer, a fond named Lato. I only recommend…
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