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Create Whispy Spirit-like Text

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Difficulty:IntermediateLength:QuickLanguages:
Motion GraphicsAdobe After Effects
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Twice a month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from back in the archives of Aetuts+. Today we’ll look at a Quick Tutorial I posted back in May 2009. I was playing with the good ol' built in CC plugins and came up with a fun technique. I used CC Smear as the basis to create text that appears in as if a spirit whisped into it.

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Adam Everett Miller
Former editor of Aetuts+ from 2009-14, I currently run Hello Studios and still love creating fun stuff in After Effects.
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