How to bend
Text In After Effects
How to Bend text in After Effects
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hey guys welcome to this After Effects
tutorial now in this tutorial I'm going
to show you how to bend text and also
how to animate
sorbent text like this one this is quite
a popular thing at the moment so you've
got this kind of coming in on a curve
and then stay in F however long you want
I asked one example the next example is
just how to have a sort of static one
like this I'm just on any sort of path I
just did like a little squiggle you can
have any path you want or how to wrap
text around a circle it's the same and
animate it you don't have to animate it
but it's the same principle and I'll be
showing you how to do these inside of
After Effects so let's stop playing that
and let's delete these text layers so
first thing you want to do is I'll show
you how to do the one that comes in
little curve first thing you want to do
is create text so I'm gonna just create
bendy text okay and just give it a
little explanation mark next thing you
want to do with that layer selected this
is just my background color sort of lock
it
but with this text layer selected get
the excuse me get the pen tool click
here and then and do another click by
here and drag so we've got this sort of
curve just like that okay and then just
get your selection tool up here just to
make sure that we finish making that now
all you need to do is come down into the
drop down go to text and then path
options and then we'll map this text to
part mask one which we've just drawn now
we've got some options here you've got
the verse path so it goes up upside down
or on top and then you've got I'm just
going to drag first margin a little bit
just so it brings in this basically
place it anywhere on there or last
margin would push it back if it was a
circle but we'll come to that later now
force alignment spreads it out equally
now this first margin if I bring us back
down here and this last marginal and I
work the it spreads it out equally
between the first and last margin
basically these two points which you can
click and drag here so if you just
wanted it static you
just click and drag and say I wanted on
this curve but I want it between these
two specific points so you can either
drag them in the display or we can drag
the values by here now I'm going to turn
perpendicular and show you perpendicular
to path off no not prove that not that
one force alignment so then what we're
going to do is we're just gonna animate
this property so we animate to come in
so I'm gonna take it all the way off
down were here come to the beginning set
a keyframe for the first margin come
forward about 40 frames like so and then
I'm gonna click and drag so it sets
another keyframe and animates in like so
I'm gonna get this last keyframe and
select it and then what I'm going to do
is I'm gonna hit f9 on my keyboard so it
goes through an easy easy keyframe let's
minimize this now I will also Chuck a
motion blur on by there if you can't see
that just click toggle switches and make
sure motion blur is on for the
competition so now when we play this
through what we'll get is our let's just
preview our text coming in like so a
long bendy line now you don't have to
animate it if you don't want to so let's
just leave it was there and we can
delete the keyframes if we wanted to so
just hit you when you're on that layer
and you can delete the keyframes but I'm
not gonna bother and then however long
you want it you can shorten this see
when you want it there for 8 seconds
then it'll finish by the time 8 seconds
are done so that's basically it and I'll
show you another couple examples just
make sure you got it so I'm going to
turn this layer off type end here text
bad idea no Ben dear they go been do
taxes even vendhya now what I'll do is
to show you that you can do any path
really so make sure this layer selected
get this pen tool I'm gonna go like so
just very very briefly and then like
this there we go
if I go back down into the text path
options let's go select mask 1 because
we're gonna draw one mask on here and
it's gonna map it to that now if we
bring the first margin in so we can
actually see what's going on they
actually cross over each other so I'm a
fourth alignment and come down last
margin will take to about here I think
and first margin moving that across a
bit if we wanted to or leave it there
and let's go turn perpendicular to path
off so then they're not going to cross
over each other so instead of the end
snap in watch the end now when I turn it
on and serve a snap in to the path it'll
just be upright and so yeah that's how
you get a long path like that's why may
bring the first and last margin in a bit
and then when we just click off you'll
see that we've got it a long path and
that can be any path you want whatsoever
now the last one on your show is the
circle and how we animate that so let's
go and type wrap text around a circle
let's bring this back in and what I'm
going to do is I'm going to get this
circle up here ellipse tool with this
layer selected I'm going to click and
drag
holding shift a circle like so and I'm
gonna move it across now you may be
wondering what's going on well at the
moment because we haven't assigned the
text to go around the path is actually
mask in the text but don't worry
all we need to do is come to text path
options and the same as before mask 1
and this time I'm going to have reverse
path so it goes in the outside and here
we go we've got first in the last margin
like so so what we can do is just
animate it so we'll come in go to the
first margin and come forward maybe
50 frames and actually I wanted to start
there so I swapped these key frames
around so it starts where it's just kind
of back to front and then we'll pull it
around where we can read it like so may
just come in make sure I'm on a keyframe
yeah and pull it around just a tad bit
more like so okay so I'm gonna hit f9 on
this keyframe again so we get a nice
easy ease and then like we did before
what we want to do is make sure that
motion blur is turned on for this layer
and for the composition and so now when
we play back wrap text around the circle
will animate around that circle now this
goes for absolutely any path that you
draw with the pen tool or with the shape
tools but as you can see this is how we
bend text and manipulate it around a
path inside of After Effects so I hope
you enjoyed that I think my my the one I
prefer the most is this one because if
it's just a little caption that comes in
when somebody's talking it's a nice sort
of fun way of doing it so yeah I hope
you enjoyed this tutorial and I'll see
you in the next one
Cheers bye
