How to Create Animated Text
Many people are now creating their own videos and placing them on YouTube either for fun or to serve as a demo to show to prospective employers. The most professional looking ones often include either opening or closing animated titles. If you would like to add animated text to your video, one way to do it to create 3D text in a modeling program like Hexagon and then export the video to a program such as Poser for animation.
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Plan out what you want your text to say. You also need to decide what you want the text to physically do in the animation. One good way to do this is to create a storyboard, with several or more drawn panels showing the action of the text. After you do that, open Hexagon.
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Select the "Primitives" tab at the top click on the "Text" tool. Type in the first letter of your title. Now click on the "Materials" tab on the left and change the color of the letter to whatever color you want the title text to be.
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Select "File," then "Export" and select "Wavefront OBJ." Save the file as "title letter 1." Now go to "File" and select "New" to create a new document.
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Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each letter in your title, changing the "title letter" file number each time.
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Open Poser. Select "File," then "Import" and click "Wavefront OBJ." Browse to the first letter and import it to Poser. Import each of your letters this way. Select each in turn and use the "x,y,z" axis "Parameter Dials" to position them for the first frame of your storyboard. Click on the "Keyframe" option near the camera controls. Now move through the timeline and position the letters to match your storyboard frames.
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Select "Render Settings" and move the slider to final. Click "Render," and in the dialog that opens input the number of frames you want to render. Click "OK." Select the file type (such as AVI) and the location to save to. Then name the file and click "OK." Poser will now render your animated text video, which you can then post online.
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