Step 1
First of all import the assets. Inside after effects go to
File>Import>File. A window will open. Search for fountain-pen.psd,
leave Import As: Footage and click Open. A new window will open. Flag
Choose Layer and change Footage Dimensions to Layer Size. This will
import the pen cropped so there is not much space around it and easier
to work with later on. Do the same for paper.jpg except there will not
open a second window because it is no psd file.
Step 2
Create three compositions. One called
text, the other
masks and the last
final comp.
Go to Composition>New Composition, name it and choose the settings
you prefer. Below you can see which one I used. For the purpose of this
tutorial it doesn't really matter which one you choose.
Step 3
In this case we want to write with black ink so change the
backgroundcolor of the text composition to white if it isn't allready.
Make sure you are inside the text composition. Go to
Composition>Background Color and change the color to white. Do the
same for the masks composition
Step 4
Inside the text composition go to Layer>New>Text to create a
new text layer. Type some text and with the layer selected choose a font
you like. The font I used in this example is Freebooter Script (you can
download it
here).
If the Character window is not present go to Window>Character. A
menu will appear where you can change the font, size, color, etc. Leave
the color to black, because we want to mimic the look of ink. Size of
the font depends on the size of the composition and text layer. In this
example I used194 px.
Step 5
With the textlayer selected go to Edit>Duplicate and do this two
times so you have three identical layers. Now add some effects to let
the text look more like ink. With the top textlayer selected go to
Effect>Color Correction>Tint. Map black to a dark gray.
Step 6
To the same layer ad another effect. Go to Effect>Matte>Matte Choker. Inside the effect controls panel use these settings:
Step 7
Add the last effect to the same textlayer. Go to Effect>Stylise>Roughen Edges. Change the settings to these:
The text from the top layer should look like this now:
Step 8
Now add a effect to the second textlayer. With the layer selected go
to Effect>Matte>Matte Choker. Change the setting to match these:
The text from the middle layer should look like this now:
Step 9
No add some effects to the bottom textlayer. With the layer selected
go to Effect>Matte>Matte Choker. To add the last effect go to
Effect>Stylise>Roughen Edges. change the settings of these two
effects to match these:
The text from the bottom layer should look like this now:
Step 10
Now you've added all the effects change the blendmode of the top and middle text layer to Color Burn:
With all three layers visible the text should look something like this:
Step 11
Now drag and drop fountain-pen.psd into the text composition. It
comes in fairly big. Scale it down to about 83 percent. Move the
anchorpoint from it's center position to the tip of the pen with the
Pan behind Tool so the pen can rotate from it's tip:
Flag the fountain-pen.psd layer as a 3D layer and change the value of
the X rotation to -10,0, because later on we create a shadow beneath
the pen on the paper:
Step 12
Now it is time to trace the letters with the pen like it is writing.
Go to the first frame in the timeline, set a key for position and Z
rotation, go a couple frames further, change position and Z rotation if
necessary, and so on.
Step 13
Copy a textlayer and paste it into the masks composition. Now we
start drawing the masks to reveal the text with later on. Go to
Layer>New>Solid. The color doesn't matter. Duplicate this solid
untill you have seven of them. These are the layers where the masks are
drawn on. Hide all the other mask layers but leave one visible. With the
first solid selected go to Effect>Trapcode>3DStroke or you can
use Stroke from inside after effects (Effect>Generate>Stroke). Do
this for all the seven mask layers. The reason why I use 3DStroke is
because it is possible to taper the ends of the stroke which is not
possible with after effect's build in Stroke. Use the Pen Tool to draw
the first mask for the first letter (after adding the Stroke effect,
otherwise the solid will have the color it had when initially created
and the text will not be seen underneath the solid). Make sure the
textlayer is beneath all the solids/masks.
Just to see the mask good change it's color to a bright one. Make
sure you can't see parts of the text when drawing the mask. So change
it's thickness to when the letter is not seen anymore. Also make sure
that a mask never crosses a part of the text when moving it's position.
So when te pen is lifted make a new mask. For this example there are
seven masks in totall. Go on untill you traced all the letters. When
you're done delete the reference text layer. It won't be needed anymore.
Step 14
Copy the animated fountain-pen from within the text composition and
paste it into the masks composition, because now it is time to animate
the masks or better to say animate the (3D)strokes. The animated
fountain-pen layer will be used as a reference to animate the strokes.
With the fountain-pen layer on top of the masks Start animating the End
positions of the masks so to match the position of the pen tip.
If you use Trapcode's 3DStroke instead of Stroke from after effects
you may also animate the End Thickness to get a nice bleeding of the
'ink'.
When the masks are animated you can delete the fountain-pen reference layer from within the masks composition.
Step15
Drag and drop the masks composition into the text composition and change it's blendmode to Stencil Alpha.
Now, when you scroll through the timeline you see the text is revealed by the masks composition.
Step 16
Copy the fountain-pen layer from within the text composition and
paste it into the final comp. Now delete the fountain-pen layer from
within the text layer. Duplicate the fountain-pen layer and change the X
rotation from the bottom layer to 0. This is the layer which will act
as shadow layer.
Step 17
Drag and drop paper.jpg into the final comp beneath the pen layers. It should look like this:
Select the bottom pen layer and go to Effect>Color Correction>Levels and change Output White to 0.
Turn of the top pen layer and it will look like this:
Step 18
The edges from the shadow are a bit to scharp. Go to
Effect>Blur&Sharpen>Gaussian Blur. Change it's Bluriness value
to about 15. Set the opacity of the layer to 80%.
It will look like this now:
Step 19
Drag and drop the text composition into the final comp. Duplicate the
text composition and change the blendmode from the top composition to
multiply and the bottom one to classic color burn.
Step 20 (optional)
Go to Layer>New>Solid. With this layer selected go to
Effect>Trapcode>Particular. Set it's blendmode to classic color
burn. Below are the settings for Particular:
Step 21 (optional)
With the layer selected which holds the Particular effect go to
Effect>Matte>Matte Choker. Add another effect. Go to
Effect>Stylise>Roughen Edges. Below are the settings:
Animate Choke from the Matte Choker effect to let Particular 'bleed'
through the paper. Set a keyframe at 3:22 for Choke at a value of 127.
At 6:10 set a keyframe of value 65.
Step 22
At last turn on the motion blur for the two pen layers.
The final effect looks like this:
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