Lynda - Kinetic Typography Techniques with After Effects

Kinetic typography is an art form that combines text and motion to express ideas in the form of animation designed to accompany spoken word or music. Join art director, author, and motion graphic designer Angie Taylor as she shares her considerable knowledge of this form. Work along with her in this unique course as she builds a complete kinetic typography project from start to finish. Along the way, discover how to create and animate text layers directly within Adobe After Effects using animators and 3D features, set up Photoshop files for animating in After Effects, and use a variety of effects and techniques to create numerous text animation styles within a single project. The course also offers lots of tips and tricks for animating 3D cameras and lights and using expressions and scripts to simplify the processes involved.

Topics include:

Working with audio

Preparing source files

Structuring your After Effects project

Working with shapes and effects

Optimizing performance

Animating text

Creating 3D animation

Using expressions to create motion

Rendering your final movie

author Angie Taylor

subject Video, Motion Graphics, video2brain

software After Effects CS5.5

level Appropriate for all

duration 7h 16m

released Sep 14, 2011