Tutorial Vectorian Giotto Cara Membuat Animasi Teks

First create a new blank document in which you will make your animation by clicking File from the menu, then New (Ctrl+N).

• Change the document properties:
  Click Modify from the menu, then Document. This will open a Document Properties dialogue screen (shortcut Ctrl+J).
  Under Dimensions enter values 250 for width and 150 for height.
  Change the color of the background to a light shade of gray.
  Change the value in the Frame rate box to 25 fps.

• Now enter a text that will be an object of animation.
  Select Text Tool (T) and click your mouse anywhere on your stage and drag to the right. You can se a rectangular area forming in which you can enter your text. Release the mouse button to confirm the size of your textbox.
  Type in the box (for example) “Cell@r Door”.

• Select your text by clicking on it by mouse – note that the properties panel (under your stage by default) now has many available options. These are the tools for modifying your text. For each option in detail please consult Giotto help file.
  Now we will modify our text a little bit. We chose Harrington font and changed the size to 16.
  You may now need to resize your textbox for your text to be in the same line. Just double-click on the textbox with Selection Tool (V). You will see four squares in the corners of the textbox. You can use this points to click and drag to resize your textbox.

• To center your text on the stage select your textbox then cut (Ctrl+X) and paste (Ctrl+V).
• As we are working in our main timeline, it would be easier if we would convert the text to a symbol (movie clip) to make it have its own independent timeline. Select your textbox and click Modify than Convert to Symbol (shortcut F8).
  Convert to Symbol window will appear, type in the name of your movie clip (“My Text” for instance), select Movie clip, then click OK.
  You will see that the textbox is now outlined in red, this indicates that a symbol in the main timeline.
  Double-click on your movie clip in the Library to enter its timeline.

• For us to create the animation from the beginning of the tutorial we will need to animate each letter separately. This is why we need to break apart the letters of the word so that each letter would be a separate animation object.
  To do this follow these steps:
  With your Selection Tool (V) select the textbox.
  Click Modify, then click Convert Text to Curves (Ctrl+Shift+C).
  You can now see in your Movie Browser window that under the layer you now have several more shapes (10 in our case) and the original text. This means that now each letter is made to be an individual shape and that the original text box is still preserved. These two now overlap.
  Select the text and delete it (Del). There are now only individual letter shapes in your movie clip.

• Now with the Selection Tool select all letters and right-click on any of the letters. From the drop-down menu select “Distribute to layers” option. This will move each individual letter to a separate layer. You can then rename your layers by the letters for more convenient work.
  Layers enable separate timelines in one movie clip. For more information on layers refer to the Giotto help file.
  You can also resize your timeline window if you can’t see all the layers.

• Now we will start with animating. The goal of our animation is the appearance of the text “Cellar Door” at the end, this means that our static position of the letters in the first frame should be the final position of our letters in the last frame of the animation.
  Select the 75th frame of the timeline of every layer in our movie clip by clicking the topmost layer at frame 75 and dragging down.
  Right-click on the selection and select “Insert Keyframe”.
  You can now see that the timeline of your layers is colored in gray and ends with a frame with a black dot which denotes the Keyframe.

• Now click on the first frame on any layer and begin designating starting positions of your letters. First select layers with two letters “o” in “Door”. We will make them appear on the stage without any movement. But, we also need to make them begin appearing after all the other letters are in place.
  Select both “o” letters and then from the Shape window click on the A (Alpha) option. You will see a slider, drag it to the opposite end until the letters disappear.
  Alpha is the parameter of each shape designating its transparency, 255 value means fully opaque and 0 means total transparency. For more information on Transparency refer to the Giotto user manual.

• Now select frame 50 of all layers and add Keyframe.
• Click again on the first frame and start rearranging letters of the text.
  Optionally (in our case):
  We moved symbol @ to the left of the stage and all other letters up or down with different starting positions (“altitude”).
  Select the layer “a” with the @ symbol in it. Add a Keyframe in the frame 25.
  Now click on the frame 50 and select the @ symbol. Change the color of the letter to orange. Do this by selecting the @ symbol and then clicking on the Brush option in the toolbar, from the dropdown menu select color orange.

• With all letters rearranged we need to make them transparent too, so that their appearance would look more smooth.
  Select frame 1 of all off the letters in all the layers and drag the Alpha slider in the Shape window from 255 to 0.
• On each part of the timeline of each layer right-click and select Create Motion Tween. This will create the animation of the letters.

• Check your work by pressing Ctrl-Enter. This will show your animation in an external player. It should look something like this:

• Now let’s make this animation more fun! Select frame 120 of all layers and create keyframes.
• On each layer take the appropriate letter, move it away from the text in a random direction and apply Alpha 0 to each except the @ symbol.
• Create motion tween on each timeline from 75 to 120.
• Click Go to Movie. This will get you to the main timeline screen.

• To be able to control your animation from the player (options like loop or similar) you must designate how long will the main movie last.
  Right-click on the frame 120 and create a keyframe.
• Play your animation. We got something like this:

The goal of this tutorial was to show you how easily simple text animations can be made with Giotto, without using advanced options. In next tutorial we will create simple animation by using drawn shapes.