5/10/2023 0 Comments Motion backgrounds flourishes packNow go back and play with the other attributes in that control box for the thickness of the line, and what the ends look like. Play that back it should draw out the line for you. The next part is the secret sauce they wouldn’t tell you for free, but I will: See the controls for “first point offset” and “last point offset”? To get the “w” to write itself onto the screen, you just pull down the last point offset to zero, set a keyframe, go a second or so down the timeline, and advance the last point offset to whatever the end limit is, and as you drag that control you can already see the line “writing” itself. Now, go to the inspector pane, turn off “fill color”, we only want an outline color. Create a new project in Motion, grab the bezier pen tool and sketch out the letter W. Start slowly, just draw and animate one large letter, and play around with the settings. As you get more sophisticated you might bring in vector files made in other applications and apply parameters to those as well. Doing stuff with particles will be very similar, the particles will emit from whatever path you draw. Then delete or make the guide layer invisible. Then you can bring that into Motion as a background layer, and trace over the lines with your mouse or pen cursor, in the vector line drawing mode. One way to start is to hand-draw what you want on paper first, and scan it in as an image file. It takes a little practice, but, basically you will draw a path and then keyframe how it uncovers itself over time.
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