Today, in a world of increased communication through video, text plays a vital and important part. As technology has advanced, the need and desire to create more sophisticated and organic flowing text has increased tenfold. For example, when you turn on the TV tonight, pay attention to some of the commercials and how text behaves in them. Text is used as a way to communicate key messages to our audience whether it be as simple as a lower third or as elaborate as a kinetic text animation.
Whatever your text desire may be, Motion has an intricate set of parameters to make all of your text dreams come true. Its workflow not only allows us to create but also save our favorite designs. On top of this, Motion's elaborate set of behaviors dedicated to text allow us to have instant animation.
This chapter will give us a basic overview of how to format and make stylistic changes to our text. We will also look at built-in animators and text generators available right in Motion's library...