Text in animation?

JeffZHigs · Post by **JeffZHigs** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 5:54 pm

So I'm making this animation and theres this one scene that I wanted to have a computer to have text type. Is that possible? Can you have text in AnimeStudio? and if that could be possible is it possible to have it come up 1 letter at a time? how could you do that on anime studio?

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:22 pm

The easiest way would be to create the whole text as an image, then put a vector layer on top of it with rectangles the same colour as the text background, then animate this to reveal one letter at a time.

arfa · Post by **arfa** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:21 pm

Can you have text in AnimeStudio

Sure - it is a menu item: Draw > Insert text [ctrl+T]

I just recently did some tests on text - exporting to SWF and found that halving the number of points reduced the file by 3/4.!

have a computer to have text type

It depends on how close the view is to the text. If you are real close, or intent to get close then inserting text (vectors) will avoid pixel stepping or anti-aliasing.

If you are at a distance then an image would be much better.
I would use mask(s) rather than individual rectangles.
Here is a rough example - with smooth interpolation - stepped would be best. You could have it letter at a time or, as here, relatively random. The closer you are to the text the more careful you need to control the reveal.

hope this helps
- arfa