Animation Effect help

[Howie]

Heya, I'm workin on recreating the text effect from this youtube video..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8YRfccBvuM

1:11 - 1:19

Anyways, looks hard as hell, any shortcuts I should know before trying to tackle this? Hard for me to imagine those Disney animators working a week just to add that traditional Disney sparkle.

Thanks ahead of time,

[kenorsom]

DrayeArt seems to have the animations down, go to him and beg assistance......

[treehugger]

You could try creating a layer with sparkles on it (or maybe a couple of slightly different sparkle layers to increase the 'sparkly' effect), and the rest of the layer transparent.
Put it over your text layer and mask it so only the sparkles over the text appear.
Then you can animate the sparkle layer moving across the text.

Wouldn't look quite as good as Disney but for a quick cheat version it should be passable.

If I have time when I get home I'll try and make a demo.

[DrayeArt]

Lay out your text in a png. file, add light flares where you want them, increase and decrease the intensity of several of them in random areas(every other frame). The wipe fade is simple, and can be achieved in wmv program or by simply starting with the complete text in your last cel, and using a gradual transparency til you arrive at the first cel. When finished, just copy and paste each frame to the background you want.

[Kewish]

What he said!

[daewoo45]

Originally Posted by DrayeArt

Lay out your text in a png. file, add light flares where you want them, increase and decrease the intensity of several of them in random areas(every other frame). The wipe fade is simple, and can be achieved in wmv program or by simply starting with the complete text in your last cel, and using a gradual transparency til you arrive at the first cel. When finished, just copy and paste each frame to the background you want.

[Howie]

Thanks for the replies, seems Draye's way is the favorite, but...

Originally Posted by DrayeArt

Lay out your text in a png. file, add light flares where you want them, increase and decrease the intensity of several of them in random areas(every other frame).

I tried this, it seemed much harder to do this way than to make a layer above the text in original file and add some kinda glowies and move them over it. This method sounds great, but in practice, for animation it's very tricky to do. I had troubles pinpointing where my lens flares would be because you have no zoom in the preview window, and there is no preview on the actual project, in addition as you can see from the video I need to work with 13~ flares per frame maybe abit less. Without accuracy I just keep hitting undo and reclicking the len flare, because preview isn't helping

If this is the best way, can you show me or go abit more in detail? I'm having troubles so I might fall back to my original plan which was to do what treehugger said. Drawing each of the glowies is looking to be a pain even with a good brush though, so I was hopin there was a trick.

This way WILL work, but it seems harder then a shortcut I'm looking for.

Originally Posted by DrayeArt

The wipe fade is simple, and can be achieved in wmv program or by simply starting with the complete text in your last cel, and using a gradual transparency til you arrive at the first cel. When finished, just copy and paste each frame to the background you want.

Wipe fade is easy, I need help with the glowies. Thanks though.

[DrayeArt]

If you wanna do it the super-easy way, there's a multitude of sites that offer animated sparkle text. I think even photobucket has it in their editor. Just type in the word or words and hit submit. Copy and take it apart in a movie program.