Animation Construction Kit Volume One "Classic"

 

Unleash your Creativity

Creating words from individual characters gives you the flexibility to be creative in how the word is written. For example, you could make the first letter larger than normal and perhaps on a lower baseline than the rest of the letters in the word. You can determine if the word is written on to the screen as “raw” characters or written by a pen, written by one of three particle effects or written by a magic wand and a particle effect.

We also supply pen and magic wand stills so that you can start your title animation with the pen/wand moving on to the screen to write the text. You can complete the writing of the title by fading out the pen/wand, moving it off of the screen or moving it to a “resting” position.

You also have flexibility in the configuration - justification of the words in the title which allows you to “optimize” your title for 4:3 or 16:9 applications, for use on a single line or as a multiple line title or to have them work with PIP effects like those supplied in our Wedding Collection series.

The characters use a nice gold gradient that you can easily change using the color controls in your NLE if you so choose.

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How does it all work?

In no time at all you can assemble the word "Our", save the animation into your ever growing collection of useful words and start on the next word. Then simply place your completed word animations in a new project to create your animated title.

Here are some screenshots taken from the timeline of Premiere Pro 2.0 - the principle is just the same for other NLE's.

Animations "O", "u" and "r" are followed by the supplied matching stills, these extend the time the characters stay on screen.

In this timeline are two previously saved word animation positioned to make the write-on animated title "OUR WEDDING".

You can scale, color and position these words as you like. In a 16:9 project you might like to make the most of the screen width as here..

In a 4:3 project you may prefer to position the words differently..

 

You can have the word "Our" written out with the pen simply by adding the pen animations on a higher video track, directly above each character.

 

In a similar fashion you can easily have the word "Our" written with a magic wand and one of the three styles of particle effects.