Re: Swinging hinge effect for per-character 3d?

Sorry, thought I psoetd an answer to this last week,!

Here's how I solved this, though there's probably several ways to do it:

• Create a text Layer


• Enable Text->Animate->Per Character 3D


• Add an animator "Rotation", and set X-rotation to +90° (or-90°, or whatever is the starting rotation)


• Adjust Text->More Options->Grouping Alignment to 0,-100% (this makes the rotation hinge around the top)


• You can delete the Y and Z rotation properties


• Delete the "Range Selector"


• Now add an "Expression Selector“ to the Text Animator


• twirl down the Selector->Amount and paste this expression:
  
  
delay=0.06; // amount of seconds between each letter
swings=1.5; // number of times the text will swing before it's done.

t=valueAtTime(time-delay*textIndex)[0];

amt=Math.cos(t*Math.PI*(swings*2)/100)*easeOut(t,0,100,100,0);



• Now to animate the swinging, set keyframes for the amount between [0,0,0] and [100,0,0]


• You can tweak the expression, I think it's pretty self-explanatory

You can add further properies to the same animator, try for example:
X Rotation=60°
Opacity= 0
Fill Brightness=-80%
Fill Saturation= 40% (if your text is coloured

To get some fake 3D shading