Digits Man, part 1

A CreativeCOW After Effects Video Tutorial Eran Stern Israel ©2008 Eran Stern and Creativecow.net. All rights reserved. Article Focus: In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern will show you a cool technique for filling an image of a human head with animated numbers using After Effects CS3's Text tool. Note: This tutorial is also available as a podcast: Click here to find it and other After Effects podcasts.

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	Digits Man, part 1 This is a great tutorial. I started to copy and paste the numbers in my comp, but once it gets half way, the number disappear and I don't know why. Do you have any ideas. by Cory Travalena on Jun 17, 2008

	Digits Man, part 1 hello, i have a question. I want to use words that come randomly. I have changed: range selector, advanced, based on--> words, but then I see the letters randomly (also letters that I don't use in my words, so you can't read the words anymore) What do I do wrong? I have tried over and over, but it doesn't work. Can you help me please?? by karen De Smedt on Apr 19, 2008

	Digits Man, part 1 Thanks for responding so fast, but I have a further quick question. Is it possible to keep each word in tact? That is, say I have a line that reads "Jon Doe Joe Smith Jim Parker". Is there a way to animate the offsetting of words so say in the next frame it reads "Joe Smith Jim Parker Jon Doe" and perhaps "Jim Parker Jon Doe Joe Smith" in the following frame, so on and so forth? by Joe Klepacki on Mar 6, 2008

	Digits Man, part 1 Please read my answer at part 2 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/stern_eran/Digits_Man2.php Eran by Eran Stern on Mar 6, 2008

	Animating Text - Question from a Student Animator Is it possible to create a similar effect to text as seen in Digits Man but instead using words (or in my particular case First and Last Names), while preserving the word/name itself? That is, making the word/names jump around in a seemingly random order without scrambling each constituent character? by Joe Klepacki on Mar 6, 2008

	Digits Man, part 1 Love the tutorial Eran. Great digit-art, attacked with some humor. I'll have to upgrade to CS3, but I will find a good use for your tut. Hope to see part 2 very soon. Thnx. by Pierre Pollet on Feb 29, 2008

	Digits Man, part 1 very enjoyable...keep 'em comic eran! by John Snow on Feb 28, 2008

	Digits Man, part 1 Well Done Eran! Thanks for this, I will definitely find a way to use this. Your tutorials are very nice - I enjoyed the smoke one also... by Smokejumper on Feb 27, 2008

	Digits Man, part 1 As far as I know you can't do this trick with version 7, only AE CS3 has this 3d character ability Eran by Eran Stern on Feb 26, 2008

	Digits Man, part 1 Eran, Thanks for a great tutorial. I still have AE7 - how can you emulate the per character 3d in AE7? thanks Jim by jimbucc on Feb 26, 2008

	Digits Man, part 1 Awesome, I love your clear understandable style by Steph Foster on Feb 24, 2008

	Digits Man, part 1 Hi, If you've encounter problems with paragraph text, please see the thread here: http://cowcast.creativecow.net/podcast/digits-man-part-1--208 There are couple of advises from me and others how to get around it Thanks, Eran by Eran Stern on Feb 23, 2008

	Digits Man, part 1 Eran, thank you. i was so going to figure out how to do this tutorial on your site but you're breaking it down in english. man i feel like a spolied american. thank you letting me be so ignorant, your tutorials are great! by Lyndon Alvarez on Feb 23, 2008

	Digits Man, part 1 great and easy to realize! Nice done. When I use 1000x1000 px. for the letters I can only write up to the middle of the layer. I used 500x500 and it worked. DO you (or somebody else) know how to do it right or is it my computer that is to slow? Maybe it´s because I don´t have open gl support??? Any idea? I use a AMD Athlon64 3000+ (old model) and 1gb ram. A new (QuadC, 4GbRam) is on the way ;) Then I can see if I´ve spent my money wiseley... Greets from Vienna! Jakob by Jakob Klingebiel on Feb 23, 2008

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