Adobe After Effects

Creating Your Own Text Animation

If you’re editing a preset or building your own animation from scratch, you need to understand the two main elements involved: the text animator (which says, “animate like this”) and the range selector (which says, “do it to these letters”).

Create an Animator

To create a text animator, unfurl the triangle next to your text layer. Click on the triangle next to Animate and choose what you’d like to animate from the list that pops up. For example, if you want letters to drop in one at a time, you’ll be animating ...