It Works Like This

In this chapter, you'll learn a few ways to animate text and a technique for creating motion backgrounds from scratch. Check out the Ch 5 Final Movie.mov file to see the animation you'll build. The project's basic steps are as follows:

1. Create an animated background using effects and masked solids.

2. Create a simple logo.

3. Animate the characters in a text layer.

4. Animate a logo in 3D space.

The logo emerges from the background.

As the logo turns to face the viewer, the background colors and tones morph.

The logo's stick figure shakes its groove thang.