HOW TO ANIMATE YOUR HAND LETTERING (FOR BEGINNERS)! AFTER EFFECTS TUTORIAL - PART 1 

This video made me your subscriber. Even though it is on here for some time, it might be one of the best I found on this subject and it is concise, easy to follow. I think this can be adapted easily for lineart (as in whiteboard animation). The layer separation for all the strokes makes all the difference for me. Thank you very much for this, Ross Mason!

Dude thank you so much! I have been watching videos on this all day and not one of the videos recommended I make each letter its own layer. You're the best.

One of the best tutorials I have seen so far. Thank you.

Finally someone who explains after effects properly

Thank you so much for this tutorial , you saved my butt for my animations class project ! and you explain it so well that I can follow you step for step . thank you thank you thank you

At the beginning was a bit hard to flow the workflow but I finally did my hand lettering animation, next stop part 2. Thanks for the tutorial!

Underated channel, this is the BEST tutorial if you want to achieve something really qualitative. I've watched couple other tutorial but this one in THE one if you want to go over the small details to make it look really smooth & natural.

And this video really helped me for my animation project at school

This is the first time i accomplish an AE tutorial, thanks !!!

I am an animator, for ove 15 years, you have just teatch me an amazing trick that i dont know bro .... thanks alot ❤

Just beautiful, thank you so much for this

Awesome! First tutorial I've seen that does it this way. I really enjoyed it so far. I noticed you're a bit new, so i hope you keep making videos. Subbed!

Great video. Looking forward to try this animation. I want to learn and practice hand lettering. Thanks for the video.

Wow. just wow!

Love this man, thank you very much.

Best tutorial, loveed it

Good tutorials! Keep it up!

Great first video - thanks !

This was soooo helpfull also really easy! Thank you so much

Awesome! Thanks, pretty helpful

Thanx dude! Saved my life!

THIS is the best tutorial on animating hand lettering! I was so annoyed with the overlapping problem, this is brilliant and helped me lots, thanks!

Thanks! Very practical and concise.

Sweet man! Welcome to RU-vid, subscribed and looking forward to more from your channel. Been wondering how to do this with my logo, may try it sometime soon using the same techniques! You present really well, grab yourself a USB mic sometime soon and your tutorials will be top-notch. Also, I think if you cover up your start bar at the bottom with some kind of graphic (or black) that would really clean up the video. Cya 'round! -Spencer

Awesome Tutorial

Man,you literally saved my life with this video. You have a new subscriber. ❤️

why you don't have enough subscribers? because you are super amazing. Impressive work

Thanks, Just what I needed

very easy tutorial! thanks!!!

this is tutorial what i looking for. thank you

MY BROTHA! Thank you so much for this tutorial! It was really helpful for me! I'm already subscribed! Keep it up! 🙏🙏

awesome! subscribed!

This video helped me in 2023 :) So still a amazing Tutorial, Thanks Brother

Hey! Congrats with a beautiful video!

You should have a link to the end of your video because RU-vid isn't guraranteed to have the part II play next. It's a safe guard to series continuity. And thanks for the tutorial!

Thanks so much, Ross. This was a great tutorial! :D

very helpful!

Nice one mate, very clear and concise!

This tutorial save my life, thanks bro

Ooo Mannnnnnnnnnn Was waiting for this effect since my birth :) Thank u so much Subscribed !

Love it!

it awesome thankx

Is it because I'm on AE CC? I tried looking through all the menus, I'm thinking it's buried somewhere else and the term might have changed? please help.

What version of After Effects did you use for this tutorial? I am using CS6 (11.0.4.2) and can only create shapes from vector layer one layer at a time. If I select more than one layer then that option is grayed out.

Really nice Video man. Thank you very much for that. Do you by any chanse have a video on how to ready the letters in AI? That would be realy grate too.

Hello hello Thank you for your great tutorial, was very helpful so far. I have a small question...I designed a tree in illustrator and imported it into after effects. My goal is to make it look like it's growing. I liked your method you used to imitate handwriting and thought I could implicate this into the growth of the tree. The difference with your letters and the tree is that all the branches should grow more or less simultaneously. So my question is; how can I draw along a branch with the pen tool (like you did in the middle of the letter), go back down the line and hook onto the pens path further down and draw along another branch. hope you understand my question...

Sick tutorial definitely earned a sub

Thank you very much.

For doing the individual layers did you use the pen tool?

Hi Ross, great video and very clear, for some reason when I'm going through the method my stroke brush size does not fillet and cover the mask shape. Any ideas please? Thank you so much great video. Best Andy

Hi! Do you have any tutorials explaining how to add this as an email signature in Mailchimp? Thank you!

So it only works on the first path I drew. Am I missing something? If I do several paths it only works on one so If I do one continuous path it will work but not if I draw more than two.

Heey! Awesome tutorial. I have problems because when i make the outlines, the blue lines never appear and have tried everythung, and nothng helps. :(

Big thanks

very cool

hello! how can i animate text shape stroke in sharp corners in your style? i don't want round corners animate. can you tell me please?

Do you have to use adobe illustrator? Can I use a drawing app called Procreate?

this is the most helpful handwriting tut on earth. thank god!!!!!!

Nice video, easy to understand ^^. but i got a problem here, i wonder why i can't convert the ai layers to shape in one go. i have to convert them one by one... that's really take time

Just when I almost gave up on this effect (overlapping thing was so annoying) :-) Thanks!

How did you "break" the letters in illustrator? thanks

What’s the name of this program wich u made the signetur inside please?

Huge thanks! Fire ass work!

can I ask if you did the text through a font or free hand?

Thanks for this, really clear! Is there any way of duplicating the settings on the stroke so you don't have to set up the brush size etc each time?

Hello I'm just wondering if it also can be applied with Photoshop files

OMG THANK YOU

Very good tutorial

how do i split the texte in layers?

Thanks Ross Mason.......

I find your tutorial very helpful. I've got only one question... what can I do when I choose Reveal Original Image (by Stroke effect) and it doesn't appear any outline of the original letter. I have the same options as you but I can't find the problem. Thanks!

how do i make my brush rectangular? so it reveals with a box corner

How do you arrange your layers by file type?

Fantastic tutorial. Exactly what I wanted to achieve, and you explained it perfectly clearly. Particularly appreciate you showing how you had divided up the Illustrator paths. Really couldn't hope for a better explanation of this process. Could do without the background music. Quite unnecessary and a bit irritating, especially given your audio quality is not that great. But thanks for taking the time Ross. Much appreciated.

Hi Ross, The video is exactly life saver. However, i am stuck in one step, as some others did, My problem is i used seperated text layers with a solid background, created outlines thingie, then added stroke to my first letter, filled "All masks" , made "Brush Hardness; 100%" and "Spacing 100%". Chose pen tool and clicked for "Tool Creates Mask". However, i dont why but i can't see the white line, but just the thin line showing pen tool's trace. When i changed the brush size, nothing changes.. I followed the same process several times. What can be my problem? If anybody can help me to figure it out, it will be marvelous. Thanks.

This is exactly what I was looking for - how to animate a handwritten cursive text logo, but how do you exactly turn the pieces of text into different layers in Illustrator?

Thank you!

Any Rx on what to do with lettering/shapes that have some drastic variations in line thickness? This example's great, if you're text stroke is pretty uniform like this example. My question is if you've got something that goes from thick to thin tapers, and your pen mask is a uniform weight, what's the best way to tailor make a mask to perform this same effect and more cleanly hug those variations without having to over/under mask with the pen tool?

thanks

Hello, this video is sweet and very helpful, would I be able to use the animation as a png (no background) I would like to add it to my website but it would be displayed on top of a picture.

Hello Ross, Thank you for the video. But I'm stuck on one step. When I'm adding the stroke effect to my letter shape, I changed the effects panel according to your video and changed the pen tool to create mask not shape. However, my pen just doesn't give me the thick white line as it does in your video. Im not sure what I'm doing wrong :/. Any help please?

Can you do this with drawing in photoshop drawn with the brush tool if not what would I have to use ?

When I create shapes from vector layer 2 out of the 3 layers become invisible even though the fill color for all 3 are set to white...

Yoo the little background music’s firee any way you can let me know which song it is or what beat it is

what kind font you use?

Hello! Thank you for the tutorial. I am stuck on the part where you press "create shapes from vector layer" that button is grayed out and I cannot press it. Please help!

Sweet man! What pc specs you using for work in after effects? Thanks ahead

can't find the 'tool create mask' on the 2022 AE! so this tutorial doesn't work for me

Why does one of my ai files import in a much shittier quality? My first file imported with normal dimensions but the second file imported at like half the size

how is it done in illustrator

Can you do this without illustrator text? Like using a font in Photoshop (i don't know how to make a text in illustrator as i only use Photoshop)?

Great tutorial, thanks! The after effects part is all very clear but I'm struggling a little with getting my letters prepared in illustrator. The type I'm using has a lot of overlaps as it's script style. What is the best way of cutting up the letters into layers for this animation effect? Thanks in advance!

Excellent please where is the other effects of work in tutorial

Hey man! Would you by any chance have a tutorial on connecting the letters together in AI?

The color of my handwritten type is not the same in After Effects than Illustrator. It looks like a brighter yellow. Did I do something wrong?

Hi, I'd like to ask, how do you split letters into layers if you use font text (not hand-written like yours)??

Hello, can you do this with a photoshop file? I tried but I couldn't find the option to "create shape from vector layer." Any help will be much appreciated. Thank you

Bro what is the resolution of your screen? Don't just say 4k. Thanks

Do you have a tutorial on how you separated those overlapped layers in Illustrator?

Great Tut! What font do you use??