Creating an Orbiting Title
Making text orbit your stormy planet is fairly straightforward; you'll use the same effect you used to make the solid layer a sphere, and then tweak the effect's settings to make the text appear to hover or orbit over the planet. Here are the steps:
1. | Select the Horizontal Type tool, and set the following properties in the Character and Paragraph palettes: Font Family: Arial Black Text Size: 36 pixels Alignment: Center Text
The text's fill color is irrelevant, because effects you'll apply to the layer will override the layer's original color. |
2. | Type SCI-FI CLUB in uppercase, and set the text layer's Position to 160, 135. Creating the title
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3. | Apply Effect > BCC3 Distortion & Perspective > BCC Sphere to the SCI-FI CLUB layer. |
4. | Turn on the effect's Drop Shadow On property, and set the Shadow Distance to 10. Expand the effect's Faces group, and set the value of Faces to Front. |
5. | At time 3:00, add a Spin keyframe in the effect's Geometry group with a value of 0x-180. This positions the first letters in the text layer along the right side of the sphere so the title can be read from left to right as the globe spins. |
6. | Press End to go to time 9:29, and change the Spin value to 0x135.0. |
7. | Set the Scale property in the Geometry group to 130. This makes the text-wrapped sphere larger than the solid-wrapped sphere, so the type appears to float above the stormy orb. The distance gives the overall scene a greater sense of depth. Settings for the BCC3 Sphere effect
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Adding style to the orbiting title
Now you'll use the Ramp and Bevel Alpha effects to add a color gradient and substance to the type:
1. | Apply Effect > Render > Ramp to the SCI-FI CLUB layer. |
2. | To equally divide the effect's color gradient between the top and bottom halves of the letters, apply these settings: Start of Ramp: 160, 116 End of Ramp: 160, 137 Start Color: Royal blue (#1301FF) End Color: Bright yellow (# ECFB02) Ramp Shape: Linear Ramp Set the effect's remaining two properties to 0.
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3. | To add some depth to the letters, apply Effect > Perspective > Bevel Alpha to the SCI-FI CLUB layer with these settings: Edge Thickness: 3.3 Light Intensity: 1.0 Light Angle: 0 x -60 Light Color: #FFFFFF
The stylized title
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