After Effects: Making a texture 'stick' to animating text

How to make a texture stick to an animating text layer in After Effects CS3. This technique will also work in previous versions of AE. Another way of doing this is to parent the texture layer to the text layer in the original comp, bypassing the nesting stage altogether. This video is a response to a post on the After Effects Basics forum at creativecow.net. See the original thread here: http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/202/878363#878363

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• adobe
• after
• effects
• tutorial
• text
• texture
• grunge
• alpha
• matte
• nesting
• precomp

[petenicezz]

hello, do you have a tutorial adding texture to 3d text

[simonsaysfx]

@petenicezz After you've pre-comped the text and the texture, you can make the precomp a 3D layer.

[YGMH1107]

How do you make the texture appear in color? I can only get it to work in B&W?

[simonsaysfx]

@YGMH1107 Not sure about this one. This should work for any colour layer.

[simonsaysfx]

go into the project panel (top left, where all your assets are listed), click on the one you want to rename and press return on the main part of the keyboard, not on the numpad.

[eseker031]

@simonsaysfx

Can u pleeeeease help me....

I have problem with tekstures on animated cherecters. This tutorial is for the text, but I need textures on 2D characters in after effects...

I´ve tried with set matte but then textures get expelled from the position...

If I use Toggle switch/mode, it just didnt work neither - i need image sequence of animated character CLEAR, with low opacity texture in alpha channel of the character...

anyone?

[applesofeyes0]

Thank you



[Henbot]

thanks for tut

[CaptainGrizzlyBear]

it wont let me make a key frame. :(

[xSkiiNy]

thx <3

[Phillie103]

@ladpacheco yeah thats what i thought

[matherman]

@ladpacheco i was thinking the same thing myself

[ladpacheco]

or you can simply parent it