I had decided to start with a red and white colour scheme to emphasise importance, as this recent news topic of the tampon tax has sparked up a lot of interest and opinions.
Choosing what font to use took me a while, as I wanted something fairly bold yet not too formal. I eventually decided on the font 'Avenir' with the black setting applied.
I started off by creating my title and animating it onto the project.
I animated the position of the words 'Tampon' and 'Tax' one after the other in time with the music. As it was the title, I left these on the screen for a couple of seconds before animating the rotation and scale of these words, so that the 'T' in 'Tampon' was on its side at the bottom of the screen.
I then animated in my first bit of text with a typewriter style effect at the top of the screen.
Next, I quickly opened Adobe Illustrator and created a simple silhouette of a cartoonish style person, in the same red colour I had just used for my title text in my animation.
By creating this 'character' in Adobe Illustrator, I was able to import it into After Effects as a new composition, with the layers still seperate.
I then rigged up this 'character' by changing the anchor points of each layer and making sure that they were parented to the 'body' layer. This enabled me to start animating 2 versions of this 'character.
I went back into Adobe Illustrator to draw out two quick phrases: 'Keep the tax!' and 'Lose the tax!' and imported them into After Effects again.
I changed the scale and opacity of these to try to animate them to look like they were appearing from the two 'characters' heads.
However, I am unsure if I like how this looks, and so would like to learn how to animate text over a path, to save time and achieve a more professional look.
Here is what my animation looks like so far:
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