Now you have learned a few very cool things here about using animators and controlling them. Let us now use some of this knowledge to create a very cool text animation technique inside our next composition.
Come over here to the project window and open composition 4 which is called red corner. Now this composition again contains just one line of type and we are going to apply just one animator to it containing a few different property changes to create a very cool effect and that is that every single one of these characters is kind of being blown around in the wind than will actually spiral off screen. So let us create the animator first and have a look at the way not to do this.
Let us toil down layer number one, this is our text layer and go across to the animate menu and choose anchor point but then come down to animator one which is just been added, go to the add menu and now let us add a few others. Let us go for scale go back again and choose tracking, it seems that we want these to sort of rotate around in the wind let us also add a rotation property into that same animator. Now if we make a couple of changes here to a few of these settings, we could then animate the start and end point of our range selector to make the text start in this position and end up where we decide.
So first off, let us adjust the Y axis value here for the anchor point so just drag on the second value here all the way to the right until the text disappears off the top of the screen. Again, a fairly round number around about 280 there should securely see those letters disappear off the top. Now we also want the text to rotate maybe one full rotation before it reaches the top of the screen, so let us just key in one complete revolution plus 0° here in the timeline and say okay, and then maybe increase our scale value up to somewhere around about 150%. Feel free to put whatever you want in there. What we are looking for here is the correct way to actually achieve this.
Now currently because all of the characters are selected, they have now all been affected. They have been moved off the top of the screen, rotated and scaled and therefore we cannot see them at the beginning of the animation. Now you will notice on the timeline we have two markers. We have got marker number one here, around about 20 frames across and marker number two at four seconds across.
I have put those in simply so you can jump between them on the timeline by hitting 1 or 2 on the keyboard and that just saves us a little bit of time bouncing back and forth. So let us make sure we have marker number one just by hitting number one on the keyboard and then toil open the range selector for animator one here, and make sure the end point is set to 0. That means that none of the characters are selected, therefore they all return back to their original position.
Now if we turn on a key frame to the end point at marker number one and then hit two on the keyboard to jump to four seconds along the timeline, we can now change this very quickly to 100%. If we now scrub through the timeline, we will see that the characters do indeed start to move off screen. You can see that they are animating around sort of a central axis and disappearing towards the top of the screen.
If we go ahead and turn on motion blur here for the layer in the timeline as well as the composition icon here for motion blur, and just hit the 0 key and do a quick ramp preview there. You will notice that the animation is incredibly fast. Now it is happening over 3.5 seconds, but it is moving so fast that motion blur applied. You can barely see the text move, and to me it looks like the characters is just disappearing one after the other. They are not actually moving anywhere or doing anything in particular. So this is the way not to do it by animating the end point because it just changes the whole dynamic of the animation and definitely it does not give us the required result.
So let us just click and slow the playback and use a couple of techniques you should already know now to ease text from one set of properties to
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