You can edit the expression further and change values for the swings, which will determine the determine how many times the text will swing, the timeOffset value, which will represent the time in which each individual letter swings down This will make our animation swing downwards Right now the text will be swinging from the bottom as the anchor point is set at the base of the text so to fix that, weвЂ™ll need to go to expand the вЂњmore optionsвЂќ menu for the text layer, and for the Grouping Alignment property, turn back the last value until the anchor points align correctly at the top of the text layer. WeвЂ™ll set the value to 0, move the cursor in time a few seconds and set it to 100 WeвЂ™ll also set a keyframe at the beginning for the Amount value so click on the stopwatch. V=valueAtTime(time-timeOffset*textIndex/textTotal) Now weвЂ™ll go back to Add and choose вЂњSelector вЂ“ ExpressionвЂќ, and weвЂ™ll paste in the below expression.Д¬lick on the arrow next to the Expression Selector to bring down the Amount property and then alt+click on the Amount and enter the expression: WeвЂ™ll click on Animate again and this time weвЂ™ll choose rotationДЄnd set the X rotation value to 0 so the text is not visible anymore. Kinetic Swinging Text in AEДЄs always, weвЂ™ll start by creating a new composition, 1920Г—1080 pixels,ДЄnd weвЂ™ll create a new text layer вЂ“ right click and choose вЂњnew вЂ“ text layerвЂќ and type in your text.Д¬lick on the down arrow next to the layer and then click on animate and choose вЂњEnable Per Character 3DвЂќ.

This method is very useful for creating quick and visually appealing text animations and you can also apply it for template creation. WeвЂ™ll be using a special swing expression for the movement and you can edit the values and come up with your own variation of the animation. In this tutorial, weвЂ™re going to take a look at re-creating a popular kinetic animation in After Effects, the swinging text animation.

Adobe after effect text animation