3D Tutorial for Editors: Confessions of a Two-Dimensional Man
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The idea is that the slider at the top of the window animates any combination of the parameters below. The animation I had in mind was to create letters oozing onto the screen, one after the other. I used Type On to animate the Y position, and I animated the Y scale from 3000%, and the X scale from zero: long, skinny letters, dripping into the frame.
(By the way, do you see how crisp the letters are, even when the Y scale is at 3000%? That's RED's vector text, yet another profoundly powerful concept. Because the text is based on vector outlines instead of pixels, it stays razor sharp at any scale. You can do something similar by starting in a drawing program like Adobe Illustrator, creating text, converting it to outlines, bringing the outlines into an animation program to move around, then bring the finished animation into your NLE, but why bother? Use RED, and do it all inside your NLE.)
For a final bit of flavor, I'm also going to animate the skew of the letters, further ehancing a dripping effect. Here's my 2D animation of oozing letters.
And here's how easily I move into three dimensions: this single pop-up menu, to change the shape from 3D Line Art, that is, vector outlines composited in three dimensions, to 3D Extrusion.
The default extrusion is somewhat shallow, which is fine for most 3D text, but a quick click on the Extrusion tab shows how easy it is to change that.
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