Lettering Animation using Thicc Stroke | After Effects Tutorial

In this After Effects tutorial, I'll show you how to create a lettering animation using Thicc Stroke.
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Content:
0:00 Intro
0:24 Adjusting the Thicc Stroke settings
1:53 Path animation
3:50 Adding the revealing drop
4:47 Animating the path shape
5:58 Adding more details
7:05 Outro

First of all, we add Thicc Stroke to our solid and the basic mask path. Then we adjust the settings of the plug-in, before we animate the basic path.
To avoid a linear movement, we set keyframes at positions, where the movement would naturally slow down. Then we adjust the speed, using the graph editor.
Then we animate the shape of the path, as the line moves along.
After that we add a second layer, with a drop - which reveals the path.
Finally, we add more details to our lettering animation to make it look really unique.

► Software: Adobe After Effects 17.5

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[chalbeychuziye]

Your name is Manual and my name is AUTO 😂

[pithecusaustralo]

can you make the very beginning of making text or line ? I typed text and drew a line to make mask like you, but it all didn't work like you did in this video.

[rr.studios]

I've seen amazing motion graphics works done by Manuel Neto on his site manuelneto. co
I wonder if you're the same person.

[breenorz]

if you are doing a full tutorial why you don't explain everything from the beginning? There's are some people that we are learning how to use the program and we don't know how to start this tutorial with the path you just had....

[sydlobo]

how do you draw a mask? when i draw a path. the plugin doesn't detect any mask

[Alexey_Gri]

Hello, can you tell me what monitor this lesson was recorded on? Diagonal and resolution of the screen

[captainberzeliusverna]

could you please include what composition settings you have, is it 1 second 70 frames? i did 5 seconds and 60 frames and followed along, but the keyframes you put at 48th frame the animation is too fast

[mikaelbjornson]

Sorry, but the stuff I do in Thick Stroke can't be composited with other stuff. There is always a black square around the strokes, even when choosing the blend mode to "Add" or "Screen". Am I misunderstanding something?

[uzairmehmood]

Cool!

I was wondering if you could do a tutorial explaining the purposes of animation principles like overshoot, anticipation, follow through etc. with detailed examples.

I find applying these techniques tricky as i'm new to it

[vim]

Thanksss!!! Just a question, what are your composition settings?

[aliezzartstudio]

im new to this channel and your work is amazing, congrats u just gained a sub

[salazar]

I'm a beginner.. i dont know how to get that path.!!

[beardedchristian]

Thanks for this, great tutorial, well worth the time, can't wait to apply it

[SidNZ]

Tutorial from the beginning would help when you open ae. Importing something from another software already, l dont feel helps.

[maxkitaev]

I used a pen to create a path that's called shape in the layers. the effect doesn't seem to work. Do I need to convert this shop to another type of layer?

[sophiemulders]

but i to know how you added the exclamation animation. i looks like some drops ... have been looking for very long on how to do this and i think i am missing something

[virendraraval]

Well manage and unique way to create . Thank you so much for sharing your valuable knowledge with us. 😎

[entidadalan]

Great job ... But it is not clear about the white lines that accompany the text ... Thanks!

[ucthangphung]

when i use your plug-ins I get this error "this effect may slow down preview and export as it is not optimized for multi-frame rendering", how to fix it? Thanks

[soumyadipbanerjee]

How you make the path in adobe Illustrator?