Hand Animated Text - After Effects Tutorial

Creating a Hand-Animated Text Effect in After Effects

In this tutorial, the speaker demonstrates how to create a hand-animated text effect in After Effects using the turbulent displace effect. The effect can be used on text or other elements to give them a wavy, animated look.

Setting up the Composition

• Create a new composition and set the background color.

• Add text to the composition and center it.

Applying the Turbulent Displace Effect

• Search for "Turbulent Displace" in the effects and presets panel.

• Adjust the amount and size of the effect as desired.

• Twirl down evolution options and click "cycle evolution."

• Hold down alt and click on seed to bring up expression bar.

• Type "time * [number]" into expression bar to adjust speed of animation.

Tips for Using Hand-Animate Text Effect

• Use slower moving hand-animated look on bigger text.

Using Heat Distortion Effect in Typography

In this section, the speaker explains how to use the heat distortion effect in typography.

Applying Heat Distortion Effect

• The heat distortion effect can be used in various ways to achieve a heat distort look.

• This style of typography is heavily used by the speaker in their current project.

• Adding the heat distortion effect gives a clean and nice look to the text, making it appear as if a lot of time was spent on it even though it only takes about 20 seconds to apply.

Tutorial Requests

• The speaker requests tutorial ideas from viewers since they do not have any consistent ideas for tutorials.