The Motion Boutique posts another free-to-downlaod script for After Effects in the ASCII Art Generator, which will transform the content of any After EfFects Text Layer into reto styled ASCII Art.
This After Effects script allows you to transform the content of the selected text layer into ASCII art
The ASCII art Generator for After Effects comes with more than 200 presets, and as the folks from the Motion Boutique mention, the credit must go to Gillepsie who wrote the implementation of the FIGfont spec in JavaScript which the script uses. Check out the After Effects ASCII Art Generator script here.