Text effects...

[Juzme]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to do an effect on a large body of text?? I've seen a few sites where the text (body copy) has some sort of effect on loading, but am not sure how this is done - component, actionscript, etc,etc??? I've looked & looked but all I have found is effects for small areas of text - has anyone got any ideas??

Here's an example (lovely site too!!) http://www.okworks.com/ See the text effect on 'Company' - the others are fairly easy (I think), but how do they do that on 'Company' - is it a series of masks??

Also if anyone knows how they do that wave effect on the image load - I'd love to know :)

Cheers!!

[Dylan Marvin]

Looks like little lines of masks to me, with moving text underneath.

[Headshotz]

If it is scripted they are using the "typewriter code" forwards and backwards on each different line.

[Juzme]

Hmmm, you could be right...I will investigate some more.

Cheers! :)

[pixelwit]

I agree with DylanMarvin on this one. Moving text under stretching masks. I doubt there's much if any ActionScript being used on any of those text effects. It looks all hand tweened to me because it's way too "custom" and I couldn't pick up on anything being "random".

I think the image transistions are being done in AfterEffects, not sure, the transitions locked-up FireFox twice on me.

-PiXELWiT
http://www.pixelwit.com

[Headshotz]

I agree with DylanMarvin on this one. Moving text under stretching masks. I doubt there's much if any ActionScript being used on any of those text effects. It looks all hand tweened to me because it's way too "custom" and I couldn't pick up on anything being "random".

I think the image transistions are being done in AfterEffects, not sure, the transitions locked-up FireFox twice on me.

-PiXELWiT
http://www.pixelwit.com

Yeah, it is masking. If you slow it down you can see the letters are NOT typed out one by one like AS would make them do, instead a mask if shifted across it because you can see 1/2 the letter or 1/4 etc. sometimes.