I realize it's more expensive than the $20 font, but if you get some money to buy plug-ins with, I highly recommend Trapcode's Shine and 3d Stroke plugins. And each one is still under $100.
http://www.trapcode.com <http://www.trapcode.com/>
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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf Of Hickey, Sean
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:31 AM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: egyptian hieroglyphics
All good tips man. Santa didn't bring AE 6.0 though. I have version 5. Your ideas are really cool though. I saw the presets in 6 and they look pretty slick. I used a little gold edge ray to shine around the letters and it looks alright but a little too plain. Anyhow I give it my best.
Thanks for the help
Sean
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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM on behalf of Chris Smith
Sent: Thu 1/5/2006 12:00 PM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: egyptian hieroglyphics
My first thought is find a font set with hieroglyphics. That way you have a bunch in a vector format. If you want to do a morph, I would use AE's mask morphing function. Create the hieros in Illustrator and copy/paste them to a solid in AE. They will be converted to masks.
