
With Scripts, you need to make sure of a couple of things. Plug-ins normally come with an installer, and you can double click, sit back, and not worry about too much. If you’re new to scripts, you should know that they install slightly differently then plug-ins. Let’s talk quickly about installation first. Well, that’s where Text Exploder comes into play. What would be super helpful would be to have a simple button that we could press to break the text down into its individual words, lines or characters, in one button press. Depending on how many letters we want to animate, it can be a little time consuming to recreate your text block accurately.

What we have to do is to recreate the text look, but leave blanks in our text where we’re going to have those certain letters placed that are going to be animated, not to mention the fact that we have to worry about the learning between the letters, so that things look like they were typed out in one simple text element. That’s pretty easy to do, right?” Well, no, it’s not really. The client then says – “Hey, you know what would be a good idea? If we could have certain letters slowly animate out from the main group. You’ve created a text layout like the one you see below: So, here’s the simple situation that you’re in.

In this quick review, I want to take a look at a simple script from called Text Exploder (available to purchase and download via ), and show you why it’s a simple, effective, and well worth money. They are a way to add functionality to After Effects that was never there to begin with, or to take things that don’t work the way you want, and have them work better.

If you don’t know by now, I love scripts for After Effects.
