Chapter: Compositing Tools and Techniques
Topic: 3D Space for Compositing
After Effects 5 has some powerful 3D compositing features and some new tools that make complicated animations a snap. In this tutorial we will use parenting, expressions and Boris 3D text to recreate the Universal movie opening (sort’ a). A new way of thinking about layers in AE is required. It’s easy to grasp once you stand back from the project a little. Boris 3D Text and Boris Sphere are required (available in Demo version) and a custom TrueType font is used. The font is only provided in the Windows download – for Mac you will need to substitute
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