Quick Handwriting Effect In After Effects (Adobe After Effects Tutorial)

#AfterEffects
In this video, I'll show you how to quickly create a handwriting effect in After Effects.
This technique is not as good as using the Pen Tool, but if you want a quick way to animate handwriting, and the animation is fast enough, the result looks good.

[@FLEXTORGAMINGERA]

thank you so so much for saving me drawing each letter from pen tool this saved my time

[@bySterling]

Nice! First time I’ve see a way without the pen tool 🙌🏻

[@Lunaluxo]

I want my text to be another other than white but it doesn't let me change the colors no matter what I do. How do you change the color?

[@milagrosnicastro9960]

THISSS

[@hibaammar7954]

struggling with the same thing

[@nessrineayadi881]

saame

[@damngravityfpv5009]

apply a "Change to Color" effect & presets, and set change property to Hue, Lightness & Saturation
and choose the color you want to replace..
it works for me

[@nonnny_]

@@damngravityfpv5009 THANK YOU

[@fraserdinsdale8122]

Is there a way to stop the masks from cancelling themselves out when they overlap? I'm using this technique on a script font and its pretty time consuming to go in and adjust the paths for each letter.

[@MadhushreeNandi1111]

how to change color of this text mask

[@zhiyapan1646]

Try Shift + com +Y

[@Ryoura]

This is very helpful, we need more tutorials like this

[@reabo]

Can we change the text colour?

[@milagrosnicastro9960]

THISS

[@xVezzo]

i have motion tracked text, is it possible to apply this effect to tracked text? is it possible to replace the effected mask to a tracked element? :creating a mask from text removes my track from the text. would love to know how to apply this while keeping tracked position, or how to replace effected text to a tracked position. thanks

[@xVezzo]

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[@bababooxy605]

Is there a way to make it from right to left as well?

[@TomerChentckingofficial]

if i want the stroke sequentially move from RIGHT TO LEFT for hebrew letters what should i do?

[@RollynCrows]

You fucking genius

[@GK-hc4yl]

When I click create mask from text, all the letters are squeezed tightly together. Then, when generate stroke, it generate a stroke of equal width, and does follow the original font at all.

[@laresian]

What would I do without you 🎉

[@Learn_English_Deutsch]

THANKS MAN, this is what I was looking for

[@adobepremier9389]

Thank You verry mush

[@BigAl444]

This was a perfect solution when you don't need the Hollywood perfection. I had enlarged the first letter of the two words I have (Thank You! are the words). Much thicker than the rest. What I ended up doing is duplicating "The" and making the mask for "he" 0%. Then reversed to show "he". You can do this before making the masks too. Anyway, doing it this way allows you to use a thicker stroke for the fatter letters and thinner for the smaller letters. Looks great. Just soften the stroke a bit.

[@Mitic999]

thank you so much ps love your accent

[@vjedits22]

much smart u r👍🏻

[@guksack]

Perfect, thank you!

[@Ariel-kd5kd]

what is the font

[@gotdamn_tarantino]

Amazing tutorial sir.

[@igortoobusy]

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[@lloydhyland6370]

Thank you for this!

[@2008ilovemusic]

thanks!

[@manarel-hertany6381]

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