CC Cylinder Effect in After Effects

https://youtu.be/9N20t_-QeKk

Adobe After Effects CC 2023: How To Use The CC Cylinder Effect

**Description:
**This tutorial will show you how to use the CC Cylinder Effect in After Effects CC 2023 to wrap and animate text around graphics such as a logo.

**CC Cylinder Settings Used in Tutorial:
**Radius: 116
Position Z: 70
Rotation X: 20 Degrees
Lighting: Set all to lowest value
Shading: Set all to lowest value

**Font Used in Tutorial:
**https://fonts.google.com/?query=londrina

Chapters:
00:00 Intro: About This Tutorial
00:14 Composition Settings
00:25 Create New Comp For Text
00:49 Enter the ‘Repeat’ Expression
01:09 Add CC Cylinder (Effects & Presets)
01:22 Customize CC Cylinder (Effect Controls)
01:41 How To Animate CC Cylinder
01:57 Add loopOut() Expression
02:16 Finishing Touches: Fill, Drop Shadow, Turbulent Displace
02:42 Turbulent Displace Settings
03:12 Mask Behind Logo

**Software Used:
**Adobe After Effects CC 2023 (Click To Try or Buy)

1. How To Use the CC Cylinder Effect:

   1. Open or Create a Composition
   2. Add background elements and graphics such as a logo to wrap text around
   3. Create a New Composition for Text (I used 2160 x 600 px)
   4. Add Text
   5. Repeat Text To Fill Tutorial (Opt/Alt + Click on Source Text and enter repeat(#)

   How To Animate CC Cylinder:

   1. Drag CTI to the beginning of the Timeline
   2. Go to Effect Controls
   3. Click on stopwatch next Rotation Y to add a keyframe
   4. Move CTI forward to 7 Second Mark
   5. Enter 1 in the Rotation y values to rotate 1 x 360 degrees
   6. Press Option or Alt
   7. Click on the Stopwatch for Rotation Y
   8. Enter loopOut() to loop endlessly
   9. Press SpaceBar to preview animation

   Finishing Touches:

   1. Add Fill to control the color of text
   2. Add Drop-shadow for styling
   3. Add Turbulent Displace to add character and wiggle
      1. Change Amount To 5
      2. Option click on ‘Random Seed’
      3. Enter time*5 to animate Turbulent Displace

   How To Mask CC Cylinder Text Behind Object:

   1. Select CC Cylinder Text Layer
   2. Select Pen Tool (G)
   3. Create a Mask where the text intersects object/logo
   4. Change Mask to Subtract