Animating Individual Letters in Blender (+ Live Questions!)

Learn how to animate text in Blender! In this live tutorial we'll animate letter by letter, and using some clever techniques to speed things up.

Made with Blender:

0:00 Intro
1:39 Example
3:14 Start of the tutorial - new file
4:43 How to change a font and kerning
5:27 Separating letters
6:11 Turning text into objects
6:39 Giving letters their own pivot points
7:34 Adding empty objects
8:52 Animating rotation
11:36 Giving separate animation to every letter
13:25 Giving more life to the animation
16:07 Getting ready to render (texture, colours, backgrounds, lights)
17:48 Small break to explain light choice
20:21 Back to render set up process
21:31 Adding colours
24:25 Coping modifiers from one object to others
25:44 Render process
34:08 Final results

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Thanks for watching!

[Monshilstraze]

"I may annoy some people the way I'm gonna do it, so I'm very excited" - BRILLIANT bro, I feel the very same every time

[evansojuka]

This guy is on another level, so humble and your tutorials are easy to learn

[papycoima]

Loved it! I already sent the google forms for the Audio Library :D

[arbikyun]

I really like your tutorials, because every time I watch your video tutorials, I always understand, and I always get new inspiration for my renderings, keep it up mate🔥🔥, btw loves from Indonesia

[BlenderFun_]

Had to laugh again so hard when you got the hex color, inserted it and it was pretty easy to read your mind that you thought the color was awful :D But you are so polite so you didn't say anything about it but just took the saturation down with the comment "that's a lot better"! ...and of course i love your tutorials and learnt so much from you!

[crazydolphin]

This guy's great. Most tutorials online are slow and really are almost impossible to watch. This dudes fast and direct to the point, thanks 👍

[bigsili]

dude... the fact that your so good *and* so humble is just- wow

[glozzas]

I learn some many small but important tips and tricks from you!
Thank you and keep up the great work!

[vizdotlife]

This is awesome! Thank you. Blender has so many aspects of customization for text animations....it's really only limited by our imagination.

[kione]

After parenting the first letter and the empty you can select the next letter and empty press shift+r to repeat the last action (parenting two selected objects) so you don't have to press ctrl+p and click parent.
u save a click :D

[lint_animations]

you some ho manage to make everything you do good no matter how begginerish a project is, it enrages me how good you are!!!

[delfinal]

If anybody needs this:
:)

0:00 - Intro
1:39 - Example
3:14 - Start of the tutorial - new file
4:43 - How to change a font and kerning
5:27 - Separating letters
6:11 - Turning text into objects
6:39 - Giving letters thier own pivit points
7:34 - Adding emnty objects
8:52 - Animating rotation
11:36 - Giving separate animation to every letter
13:25 giving more life to the animation
16:07 - getting ready to render (adding texture, colours, backgrounds, lights etc.)
17:48 - small break to explain light choice
20:21 - back to render set up process
21:31 - adding colours
24:25 - coping modyfires from one object to others
25:44 - render process
34:08 - Final results

(Sorry if my choice of words seems weird XD, I wasn't sure how to write some things, I hope I got it all correct)
Have a nice day!

[billysthings]

Just a chill boi animating on a friday :)

[renegadethesandwing]

how much do you like your mouse cuz i really like that mouse

[Btwife]

I LOVE YOU YOU JUST FIXED ALL MY PROBLEMS

[mpix]

When working with lighting, in the real world as well, you have to consider that a larger and closer light source will result in softer shadows and vice versa ( in blender same thing with area and point L. Sun light works the same, tweak the sun angle ). Also the renderer calculates the the area light shadows differently to the emission shader on Objects. 3D Math People know what i mean.

You can tweak the light beam spread when using area lights.

But I like using emissive planes as well, but I never scaled them :D thats a good one thx. ( you can hide the visibility for the camera in the object propert.)

[キラキラくりくり頭]

Absolutely great video. It was like "he's talking about rotating text?... Come on, I know how to do that. Lighting? I know how to... Oh.. ok... Learned something from both of the demonstrations.
Great work. Please keep it up.

[xDaShaanx]

It's so good to see you upload/stream. :D

[mpix]

thanks for the video. Luv it :D.
If not already known, try to scale the key frames on the x axis with the 2d cursor as pivot point. This will offset the keyframes as well.

[yegti]

18:04 there are many like it but this one is mine! Nice TF2 soldier reference dude. RIP Rick May