This chapter
gives you the knowledge to create stunning professional graphics and animations??”and
it will also get you excited about doing it! You??™ll learn about the following:
?—? Working with Modeler??™s Fonts tools
?—? Modeling text
?—? Setting up a text-based scene
?—? Importing background animations
?—? Creating smooth, continuous motions
?—? Creating 3D text from EPS files
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Take a look at any television news or entertainment show and you??™ll see that they have one
thing in common??”text graphics and animations. Such graphics and animations are bold,
colorful, and downright cool to look at. Creating graphics and animations for video can be
fun and lucrative.Networks and TV stations in major markets pay well for animation packages
for their news shows and for titles and ???bumpers?????”those short animations that appear
when shows go into and out of commercial breaks.Animation packages must represent the
feeling and style the broadcaster is trying to convey for the station??”serious and strong,
classy and cute, sharp and hip, and so on.
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