Title Animation
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| 3D DVE Controls Graffiti offers a number of ways to apply 3D DVE animations to titles, or to position static titles in 3D space. The first is to tumble, spin, and rotate layers of text using the Controls window, or onscreen controls in the Composite window. Additionally, Graffiti allows these DVE transformations to be applied at the level of the individual letters in a word, as in the animation below: the layer itself stays flat, but the letters spin. With a single command, 2D and 3D text created as words, lines or pages can be broken into individual characters and placed inside a 3D container. Once there, they can be manipulated in 3D text, either reminaining as a group, or as individual characters. Advanced adjustments can be applied to any parameter by editing its curve in the Graffiti timeline. To quickly get to a given parameter's curve, simply shift-click in the interpolation box next to any parameter, and it will automatically be exposed. Together, these tools provide Boris Graffiti with an unparalleled degree of animation control, quickly and easily. |
| Animated Tracking An extremely popular technique in contemporary motion graphics involves animating the distance between letters in a word, or tracking. Boris Graffiti includes controls for tracking both 2D and 3D text, in user selectable and keyframable ways. The controls for this are accessible when the Face track is selected in the timeline. The red button in the Controls window provides a shortcut for this. Because Graffiti's keyframing assumes that titles will be animated, users can created animated tracking effects with one click, and no added keyframes. Added to Graffiti's DVE controls, very dramatic text effects can be very quickly created. Animated tracking can also be combined with Graffiti's blurs, particles, and other filters for exceptionally elegant effects. A less common variation on animated tracking is to leave the tracking alone, but instead animate the scale of the letters. Letter scale, along with tumble, spin, rotate and skew, are among the other parameters found on |
| Text on Path Along with the creation of vector text, Graffiti 2 provides a variety of ways to exploit the power of vectors, including text on a vector path. Simply create the path using Graffitti's vector tools, or importing paths from Adobe Illustrator. A shortcut for adding a path is available in the Controls window when the Face track is active. Unlike many other applications that offer this feature, Graffiti 2 allows you to animate the shape of the path over time, as well as its position and orientation in 3D space. Unlike other titling applications, Graffiti offers exceptionally easy title extrusions. This means very easy 3D text on path -- not even dedicated 3D applications offer this! Demos: Title Animation (1) in .mov format, Title Animation (2) in Flash format, Title Animation (3) in Flash format. |
| Type On Typing letters on one at a time is only the beginning of this remarkably powerful, yet easy-to-use feature. Type On allows the progressive application of multiple text animation parameters in user-defined combinations: set letters to spin, tumble or rotate, to fade or skew, scale, and more. Highly complex animations are possible with no keyframing at all. Like animated tracking and text on path, these controls are available once the text's Face track has been selected, either by clicking on it directly, or by clicking on the RED button in the Controls window. Once animations have been created, new text can be substituted, and will take on the attributes previously applied. Particularly when combined with path text and extrusion, Boris Graffiti allows fast, easy creation of compelling titles that cannot be created in any other titling software. |
| Title Containers: Rolls, Crawls, more Title containers are among the most powerful features in Boris Graffiti, because they allow the creation of instant rolls, crawls, fades, shuffles and zooms. Simply by nesting single or multiple pages (or tracks) of text inside a container track, a single flip of a pop-up menu is all that's needed to change between a roll and crawl, for example. You can also manually adjust the keyframes set by the title container for precise control over the effect. In addition, Title Containers are not limited to text tracks only-- any 3D shape track can be placed in this type of container to allow instant animation. This allows logos or other graphic elements to be included in a title roll, for example. How easy is it to make a text scroll like the one at the beginning of that famous sci-fi movie? This easy: place the text in a title container set to roll, then nest that container inside a 3D container and tumble it back. That's all there is to it. Containers are another way that you can create dynamic titles, more powerfully and more quickly than with any other titling software. |