Great class! I did not know you could do this much with text animators. I have two animations now, but one of them require a bit more advanced adjustments and animators for specific indexes to affect specific words and letters. As a result, I am unable to save them as presets. However, I attempted to create a preset from one of them and have documented the process below.

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CRASH DOWN & BOUNCE

This animation has 7 positions that create a slide-down and bounce effect. The first range selector is based off of the whole first word, while the rest are based off of individual characters. This way, when the word crashes down, each letter fades in in a wavy motion.

Position 2 has a higher Ease Low value, giving the slide down a slow increase in velocity, and a lower Ease High value, creating a crash-like effect.

My Text Animator Experiments & Presets - image 1 - student project To limit the Opacity Reveal to characters beyond the first word, two range selectors were used: "Include" for the animation and "Exclude" for the section being subtracted. The "Exclude" range selector has its units set to Index, and is based on words, with start and end value covering only the first word. Hue and blur controls were used to create a natural dissolve effect, as if the text materializes out of thin air.To prevent the first word from being affected by the color and blur changes, the same range selector from the Opacity Reveal was used with a larger "Include" range. Keyframes were shifted to ensure that the blur occurred before the colors fully changed back to their original hue.

To enhance the animation, a textured or patterned background and a 3D camera were used. The camera follows the text as it drops down and zooms in at the end of the sequence, resulting in more natural and visible movement. Motion blur was applied to the texture but not to the text.

As the position, color, blur, and opacity animators are percentage-based, and all range selectors exclude the first word, this configuration can be saved as a preset and used for various types of text.

This is the result:

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FLOAT OUT OF FOCUS

This one is way more complex so I’m not gonna go into details, but to put it simply:

Created multiple text layers with position and wiggle selectors, changed the z-axis position of the 3D layer, and panned through it with the camera.
Made two copies of each layer, used an opacity range selector to subtract space for each word in the final text, and typed the desired text into this space. Changed the font color to white and increased correlation and adjusted spatial phase of ONLY the text layer with words.
Increased aperture and reduced focal distance of the camera.
Made a position and wiggle selector with adjusted y-axis position for the final text layer to fade into place. Added an animator with a wiggle selector, position and blur property, making it look like the letters are moving into focus.
Made the letters of the final layer change size by adding a range selector connected to both scaling and tracking.
Added an adjustment layer with fractal noise that increases in scale as the camera moves on the z-axis.
Slowed down the animation by setting the Time Stretch factor to 140% in a new composition containing the original composition.

Since this project is mostly index value and character based, it will only work for this instance and I am not aware of any methods that could be used to make this into a preset. This project was mostly experimental to explore possibilities. :)

Here is the result:

Kristian Gabrielsen

Motion Graphic Designer

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