Working with Text

The first animation was our introduction into text. We edited the text by adding a "Drop Shadow". Starting out, we had the angle at 45 degrees. Then we added another keyframe at about 35 on the timeline and changed the angle to about 115 degrees. After that, we created a "Classic Tween" and watched the drop shadow move. We then had to work with it on our own and Chris showed me how to make it move in a circular motion by just changing the angles from 45 to 0 and 115 to 360. I thought it looked neat, so I edited mine like that.

The second animation was another method of animating text. We basically broke up the text by pressing CTRL + B and then added another keyframe at about 35. You have to separate them by selecting them all together then right click to get the drop down menu. You then select "Distribute to Different Layers". If you want the text to go out then come together, you spread them out in the beginning then on the keyframe, you keep them together. If you want to keep them together then spread out, you do the opposite. Then you create a "Classic Tween" and that pretty much sums it up. However, you can reverse this motion by selecting all of the frames in the timeline and right clicking to see the drop down menu. You go to "Reverse Frames" and it flips them. This was fun to do and showed me some pretty useful tools I could use for other animations. It was very simple and easy to follow and duplicate.