Follow this tip to see how you can create animated text that builds itself up character by character. Create a line of text. Open a new Illustrator artwork window in RGB color mode. Select a type tool in the toolbox, and click in your artwork to set a type insertion point. Enter the desired characters on the keyboard.
Illustrator contains type tools for entering both horizontal and vertical text.
Convert the type to graphic objects. The Create Outlines command converts type characters to graphic objects. Converting type to graphic objects gives you the freedom to apply Illustrator's full array of filters and editing features. Here, we have converted the type so that we can apply the Free Distort filter and later the Release to Layers command. All rights reserved.