Chapter 12. Building a Multilayered Text Effect

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Time

This lesson takes approximately 60 minutes to complete.

Goals

Animate text with a preset text behavior

Understand layer cloning

Animate text with keyframes

Create a custom text animation with the Sequence Text behavior

Modify multiple layers, effects, and parameters at the same time

Save customized effects, layers, and groups

Lessons 3 introduced you to some methods for creating and animating text in Motion. And as you have been building the station ID project, you have explored ways of creating animation on other objects using basic motion behaviors, parameter behaviors, and keyframes. All these techniques can also be applied to animate text.

In addition, ...

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