Cool tools for text in motion.
Whether you're adding visual background noise, using text as a texture, or flashing up words to reinforce some other idea in the piece, text is an important element of your composition. It is also one of the more difficult elements to animate in most applications. We aim to simplify that.
Customer Note: Text Anarchy, Geomancy and Anarchy Toolbox are now part of the new Red Giant Text
Anarchy plugin suite. Please visit the Red Giant Software site for more information.
Lots of control. Lttle setup.
Text Anarchy 2.0 is a set of eight plugins that provide a unique range of ways to animate text in motion.
Some of the filters use particle systems specifically
designed for generating and moving large bodies of text. Others allow the animation of characters on a
letter-by-letter basis. And still others use Bezier paths to control the
look and attributes of the text.
In all cases, Text Anarchy gives you all the control you could want, while being simple enough to need only a few minutes of setup. |
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Simple use of Text Matrix's straight streams and varying text sizes. [play] |
Our idea for Text Anarchy.
The original idea for Text Anarchy actually came from the movie 'Alien'. When the ship is descending down to the planet, there are all sorts of cool digital readouts on the ship's control panel. The Screen Text plugin came about because of this.
Our idea guy, Jim Tierney, really liked the complex, layered designs by the studio Attik. But layers and layers of text were time consuming to do manually. You'd have to create the element in Illustrator or Photoshop, bring it into After Effects, make a bunch of copies, then animate them all. Ugh.
That's why Text Matrix was created. By using a particle system like Text Matrix, you've eliminated the tedious part. As it happened, 'The Matrix' movie came out around the time of our Text Anarchy release. That was a pretty good example of one type of effect the plugins could do and certainly made the set popular. |
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Yep, it's THAT effect. [play] Find a tutorial to create this on our Tutorial page. |
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