Master Text Animators in 15 minutes | After Effects

In this video, we go over eight ways you can animate text in Adobe After Effects with sleek, professional results. The best part is these animations are super simple to do.

Text animation is the bread and butter of motion designers. The best thing about animating text is that getting slick, professional looking text animation is not hard to accomplish in Adobe After Effects. This tutorial is so easy, that even the most novice After Effects users can follow along. In this video, we break down how we approach text animation in our projects.

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[RndmgamesYT]

For easy access here are the timestamps...
Fold-in 0:13
Overshoot 3:50
Wavy Animation 7:02
Horror Film 8:45
Scale and Tracking 10:39
Scale up Position 11:44
Decoding Animation 13:14
Flicker 15:16

[gregorydavidson]

It's greatly appreciated how you explained many of the nuances that are too often mechanically dictated in the interest of product completion. A true teacher. Thanks.

[edustalk]

This is the best tutorial that i've ever seen

[suziedavison]

This is so well explained and faster paced, so efficiently done. i like how each text animation has the name of it too so I can click back and forth easily.

[learnpapaofficial]

Great Video Sir. Really Amazing and helpful for all begginers

[HowToAnimateTutorial]

Thank you so much for showing this to us! Amazing effect!

[jamiemacdonald]

Bit late to the party but I've never seen text animators explained better!

[rodrigoanderson]

brooo you make the best tutorials!!! Fast, funny and simple.👌

[HeyHeyNeon]

A real life saver for my after effects assignment! Your videos are a wonderful reference!

[小笼包-mo]

The bell is hit, like is given.
Thanks.

[lidonevita]

very stylish effects to animate text. Thanks!

[trineskovgaard]

Thank you for making awesome content! I found the effect I needed, and I got very inspired - I will definitely try the horror film effect!💯

[streetrockerz]

This Is Just Wow! waiting for your next video Sir..

[Gizmo]

Thank you so much! On point tutorial very clear.

[cutterstrophe]

9:35 - looks very similiar to the evaporate effect - which is much easier ;)

[sanniametu]

Wow this is truly an awesome tutorial. Many thanks for this fam. I've got a question tho, how do you know when to use the start ketyframes to animate as opposed to the offset key frames cause I noticed that at some point you stopped animating the offset keyframe. I would really appreciate clarity on this. Once again thanks!!

[PalomaMcClain]

In the Fold In animation, after you changed the vertical scale value, how does the scale know to expand back out from 0% to 100% without setting scale keyframes?

On the Scale and Tracking one, why did you use Start instead of Offset that time?

[TimandLauren]

thanks for doing this! im so used to using mister hose that i don't know how to do these which isn't good lol

[璇萌]

how can i do the 1:30 part of the square.

[TheUnsharp]

Nice, thank you! Would have been nice to have you slow it down and explain a little more about what the different elements (scale, offset and such) actually do and mean. I know this is basic knowledge for people that have been using AE for some time, but since the name of this video has the description "beginners" in it i would asume that there is alot of beginners (like me) that get a little overwhelmed and not really understands what each thing does. Don't know..maybe it's just me ;-)