After Effect Text Smear Project - Animation Set Up

In this tutorial series, I will show you how you can create text smear effect with all the details, all done procedurally inside After Effects without any plugins. Feel free to download project file from Gumroad for free to follow along: This is 1st out of 3 tutorials. In this tutorial, we will focus on setting up text animation with Text Animators and “locking“ text position and anchor point expressions. There are some small tricks and tips I will share with you, which I think are useful. For example using () expression to animate text, to name one. For actual smear effect, you can watch 2nd tutorial in the series: To create all the hexagon and grid details, watch 3rd tutorial in the series: 00:00 - Final result after 3 tutorials 00:11 - What we will make in this tutorial 00:26 - Project overview and details explanation 01:17 - Tutorial starts here 01:26 - Character Offset animation 02:29 - Tracking animation