November, 2007
In this lesson you'll learn how to make text rotate horizontally.
I start with a basic text phrase which I typed in.
Apply the CC Sphere effect to the text.
The text will look like this.
Under the Sphere effect let's set a keyframe at the beginning then go to the end and change rotations to 4.
It should now go around 4 times.
We can then animate the Light Intensity and Light Color to change along the rotation. The Light Intensity increased as the animation went forward. I also animated the Light Color to change from white to yellow to blue.
Next I animated Ambient, Specular, and Roughness under Shading.
It gave the text a very interesting effect as it rotated around.
Finally, I added the Minimax effect to achieve a degree interest to the look of the text then did a RAM preview to watch it in it's entirety.
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