Quick Handwriting Effect In After Effects (Adobe After Effects Tutorial)

#AfterEffects

In this video, I'll show you how to quickly create a handwriting effect in After Effects.

This technique is not as good as using the Pen Tool, but if you want a quick way to animate handwriting, and the animation is fast enough, the result looks good.

[FLEXTORGAMINGERA]

thank you so so much for saving me drawing each letter from pen tool this saved my time

[bySterling]

Nice! First time I’ve see a way without the pen tool 🙌🏻

[Ryoura]

This is very helpful, we need more tutorials like this

[fraserdinsdale]

Is there a way to stop the masks from cancelling themselves out when they overlap? I'm using this technique on a script font and its pretty time consuming to go in and adjust the paths for each letter.

[Lunaluxo]

I want my text to be another other than white but it doesn't let me change the colors no matter what I do. How do you change the color?

[German_For_Arabs]

THANKS MAN, this is what I was looking for

[BigAl]

This was a perfect solution when you don't need the Hollywood perfection. I had enlarged the first letter of the two words I have (Thank You! are the words). Much thicker than the rest. What I ended up doing is duplicating "The" and making the mask for "he" 0%. Then reversed to show "he". You can do this before making the masks too. Anyway, doing it this way allows you to use a thicker stroke for the fatter letters and thinner for the smaller letters. Looks great. Just soften the stroke a bit.

[xVezzo]

i have motion tracked text, is it possible to apply this effect to tracked text? is it possible to replace the effected mask to a tracked element? :creating a mask from text removes my track from the text. would love to know how to apply this while keeping tracked position, or how to replace effected text to a tracked position. thanks<3 :parenting copied text layer wont work:(

[bababooxy]

Is there a way to make it from right to left as well?

[TomerChentckingofficial]

if i want the stroke sequentially move from RIGHT TO LEFT for hebrew letters what should i do?

[GK-hcyl]

When I click create mask from text, all the letters are squeezed tightly together. Then, when generate stroke, it generate a stroke of equal width, and does follow the original font at all.