Valeri Visuals shows how easy it is to animate type along a path in After Effects.

Paths inside of Adobe After Effects can be more than just masks. You can also use them to create path animation, and a popular premise is moving type along a path. Check out this new quick tip tutorial from Valeri Hudedatov (Valeri Visuals) to create text against a path. Download the project files for this tutorial here.

Type is just one of the many things that you can animate against a path in After Effects. Check out this tutorial from Joe Lawrence that shows how you can automatically animate any layer onto a vector path similar to type.