<p>If you have the cube animation as a rendered file and can't mess around in the original animation, I would try corner-pins. Simply track the corners by hand by keyframing the four corners of the corner-pin to the corners of each face and apply it to your text layer. You might want to precomp the text first and apply the corner-pin onto the precomp, so you're able to rescale and modify the text alone from inside the precomp.</p>

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2020-10-15T12:34:13.957Z
2020-10-15T12:34:13.957Z
Florian Claaßen
<p>can anyone take a look at the animation I've made and provide some insights?
Here is what I've got so far.
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eIdcAp9cK_AaA8UWBx9OKWAXXZWq0F2r/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eIdcAp9cK_AaA8UWBx9OKWAXXZWq0F2r/view?usp=sharing</a></p>
<p>The problem: texts are floating when the cube is rotating.</p>
<p>Current method: I have a cube animation as the background and I added shaper layer and text to each face. For each face, I parent the text to shape layer and use path to adjust the shape as the cube rotating.</p>
<p>Question: is there a better way to scale the text correspondingly as parent shape layer resizing?</p>

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Scale texts as the the parent shape layer changes
Haimeng
# Scale texts as the the parent shape layer changes

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-10-15)

can anyone take a look at the animation I've made and provide some insights?
Here is what I've got so far.
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eIdcAp9cK_AaA8UWBx9OKWAXXZWq0F2r/view?usp=sharing>

The problem: texts are floating when the cube is rotating.

Current method: I have a cube animation as the background and I added shaper layer and text to each face. For each face, I parent the text to shape layer and use path to adjust the shape as the cube rotating.

Question: is there a better way to scale the text correspondingly as parent shape layer resizing?

**Tags:** after-effects, after-effects-expressions


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2020-10-15. Score: 1

If you have the cube animation as a rendered file and can't mess around in the original animation, I would try corner-pins. Simply track the corners by hand by keyframing the four corners of the corner-pin to the corners of each face and apply it to your text layer. You might want to precomp the text first and apply the corner-pin onto the precomp, so you're able to rescale and modify the text alone from inside the precomp.


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